16th Century
I, Mona Lisa
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I, Mona Lisa is a beautiful love story. It is historical, beginning during the Italian Renaissance, and is narrated from the first-person point ...Read Review
Hex: Darkland Tales
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At 12 noon on 4 December 1591, fifteen-year-old Geillis Duncan was hung as a witch in Edinburgh. She was one of over 70 people, mainly women and ...Read Review
Flint and Mirror
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John Crowley’s Flint and Mirror brims with fascinating, well-crafted history. Sadly, the accompanying magic feels less essential. The story is primarily set ...Read Review
The Dance Tree
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Strasbourg, in the long hot summer of 1518. A woman starts to dance in the market square. The dance is relentless, and soon she ...Read Review
The Darkest Sin (Cesare Aldo series Book 2)
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Florence 1537. Cesare Aldo, Florentine crime-fighter in a city with many factions, is sent to investigate rumours that men have been seen climbing secretly ...Read Review
Emilie
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Emilie is a compelling novel set during the wars between Catholics and Huguenots in 16th-century France. Emilie, the daughter of a Huguenot nobleman, ...Read Review
The Tudors in Love: The Courtly Code Behind the Last Medieval Dynasty
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How did fine amour, that social code of romantic behaviour born in 11th-century France, come to define the lives and fate of iconic ...Read Review
Abigail of Venice
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1562: in a Lithuanian ghetto, Abigail’s impoverished parents marry her off at puberty to Reuven, a violent, drunken man many years her senior. ...Read Review
The Queen’s Lady: Book 2 (Queens of the Tower)
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This novel follows on from The Lady of the Ravens, although it reads well as a stand-alone novel. It opens in 1502 and portrays ...Read Review
Rizzio: Darkland Tales
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March 9th 1566, Edinburgh. Conspirators want to murder Mary Queen of Scots’ suspected lover during a tennis match, but her estranged husband, Darnley, says ...Read Review