17th Century
Alice in Love and War
It is 1644: the English Civil War. Orphaned Alice Newcome, age sixteen, is living with her uncle’s family in Devon.…
Time of the Witches
Salem Village, 1692. Family quarrels and neighbor rivalries promise trouble in the Salem community, but 14-year-old Drucilla is blind to…
The Crimson Cap
Pierre’s father is missing. His mother is ill and his siblings are starving. And though he is just ten, he…
A Woman of Seville
At noon each day, Paula Sanchez, a courtesan in the city of Seville, enters the Mercedarian convent along with the…
Pirate Latitudes
The year is 1665, and a Spanish treasure ship sits alone in a fortified Caribbean cove. It is as if…
The Enemy at the Gate: Habsburgs, Ottomans, and the Battle for Europe
In The Enemy at the Gate, Andrew Wheatcroft sets out the political background to the 1683 siege of Vienna in…
Transgressions
The author of Transgressions (the playfully pen-named Erastes) has set her novel in the England of the 1640s, a time…
Captain Blood
Peter Blood, tall, spare, elegant, swarthy as a gipsy, with his startlingly blue eyes, high-bridged nose and thin, firm mouth…
Rebels and Traitors
Editors' choice
Like many an adolescent, Gideon Jukes is a young man rebelling against family constrictions and looking for his own path…
The Cavalier in the Yellow Doublet
Editors' choice
In this fifth book in the adventures of Captain Alatriste, the captain and his page, soldier in training Íñigo Balboa,…
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