For February I look forward to the publication next month of Annette Libeskind Berkovits’ debut novel ‘The Corset Maker’ in which a young Jewish woman encounters danger, suffering and the anguish of an impossible love amongst the cataclysms of mid-20th century Europe and Palestine. I review ‘Black Drop’ by Leonora Nattrass, a fine example of the emerging genre of Eighteenth Century Noir. And it’s Valentine’s Day today, so I offer you my Regency pastiche short story ‘A Month at Bath’.