Hardly sensational?

Read history lecturer Lucinda Matthews-Jones's lukewarm review of Peter Ackroyd's new short biography on Victorian sensation novelist Wilkie Collins here.

(Image courtesy of The Journal of Victorian Culture)

Is this something you would be interested in reading? Have you heard of Wilkie Collins? If you'd like to read what sensation novels are all about, you can find the full text to his two best-known novels here:

The Moonstone

The Woman in White

And yes, they are available for Kindle. For free.