from SheTreadsSoftly

Bellman & Black is the much anticipated second novel by Diane Setterfield, author of The Thirteenth Tale. When he was ten years old, William Bellman was out playing with a group of friends. He aimed his slingshot at a rook on a dare, fully anticipating he would miss. He didn't. He remembers this ...

from EadieB

Finished Bellman and Black. I liked it but not until the second half of the book. It's a little slow to get into and the subject matter (a clothing mill) just does not measure up to her first book, The Thirteenth Tale. Now that I have finished the book, I find myself liking it more and still thin...

from MaureenCean

Between a 3.5 and a 4 really. I am quite pleased that I listened to this book narrated by Jack Davenport - it may be the best way to experience a dark gothic mystery such as this, with this man's fine voice and accent that made me feel transported to setting's time and place. I had been worried w...

from lostinalibrary

Ten-year-old William Bellman killed a rook with his homemade slingshot. This one small act of cruelty would follow him the rest of his life. His life seems, at first, to be on an endless upward trajectory. He is hired at his uncle's mill where he works hard. But it is due mostly to the deaths of ...

from pierthinker

This ghost story follows William Bellman from carefree youth through his rise in commerce, first at the Bellman Mill and then at Bellman & Black, his London department store dedicated to the business of death and mourning in Victorian England. William becomes obsessed with death after a dreadful ...