17th Century
The Betrayal of Maggie Blair
Maggie’s granny has never been easy to live with, but when she is condemned of witchcraft on the false evidence…
Rebel Puritan: A Scandalous Life
Herodias Long, a survivor of the 1636 bubonic plague epidemic that killed her father, believes that she is lucky to…
Killer of Crying Deer
In 1669, an abducted youth is shipwrecked in the Florida Keys. Readers entering Henry’s world will encounter an unrelentingly detailed…
The Leaves of Fate
Between 1610 and 1630, the Jamestown settlement in the English colonies began to take shape – the colonists left the…
The Venetian Secret: 1620
This is the debut novel of Annemette Fogh, who has carried out research on primary documents, as well as drawing…
The Repentant Rake
In a London still recovering from the Great Fire, Christopher Redmayne is busy pursuing his architect’s career when his rakehell…
The King’s Evil
The King’s Evil is a reprint of the first of the Christopher Redmayne novels published in 1999, a historical mystery…
The Amorous Nightingale
In this, the second outing for Christopher Redmayne and Jonathon Bale, the architect and the constable are tasked by Charles…
The Preacher’s Bride
Editors' choice
Elizabeth Whitbread is a young Puritan woman living in Anglican England during the year 1659. At the opening of the…
Gentleman Captain
Fictional accounts of the Royal Navy in the Age of Sail, while exciting, tend to follow a predictable storyline of…
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