Alan Carr

‘A delicious sepia wet dream of a book that had me drooling, swiping right and wanting to buy a time machine’

Dawn French

‘What a treat!’

Dita Von Teese

‘This book is brilliant fun – capturing the debonair dandyism and sophisticated enigma of some very ruttable gentleman of the time’

Feast your eyes upon the most gentlemanly brows, chiselled jawlines and tightest abs of the Victorian era.

Authored by the hugely popular ‘Hot Victorians’ Instagram account, this book is a brazen celebration of the finest men from the Victorian and Edwardian eras. From a show-off strongman, a hot felon and a daguerreotype dandy to a Swedish sailor and Harvard’s first Black graduate, there is a chap for everyone.

Divided into chapters such as Hot Dads, Original Hipsters, Jocks and Sexy Nerds, each entry includes a swoon-worthy picture and a dating profile about the man. Among them, meet our cover star Arthur Shi