Time to misbehave.

Virginia Feito’s new novel, Victorian Psycho, is all about good behaviour, positive standards and polite conduct…and what happens when you flout all that, by – I dunno – slaughtering a houseload of people.

It’s a much buzzed about book that takes the psychopathy of American Psycho back to the straightlaced, be-corseted world of the 19th Century, then let’s rip. We talk about glorious violence, the humour of extremity, Charles Dickens and Bret Easton Ellis…and have a deeply amusing conversation about infanticide.

Queen Victorian would be appalled.

Enjoy!

Other books mentioned:

• Mrs March (2021), by Virginia Feito
• American Psycho (1991), by Bret Easton Ellis
• A Christmas Carol (1843), by Charles Dickens
• Nightmare Abbey (1818), by Thomas Peacock
• The Secret Garden (1911), by Frances Hodgson Burnett
• The Lamb (2025), by Lucy Rose
• Come Closer (2003), by Sara Gran
• The Fate of Mary Rose (1981), by Caroline Blackwood
• David Copperfield (1850), by Charles Dickens

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