17th Century
A House Near Luccoli
The remarkable Baroque composer Alessandro Stradella stands at the center of Denton’s bright, sparkling novel A House Near Luccoli. Unmarried, mid-thirties…
Clutter
Book 1 of a trilogy, this volume (“Clutter”) is named after one of the central characters- a homeless street child…
Falling for the Devil
Set in early 17th century Scotland, this is a professionally produced book and at almost 400 pages, it’s a big…
Peregrine
Peregrine is the story of Frances Latham, who was the eldest child of King Charles I’s falconer. She grows up…
Marbeck and the Double-Dealer
Martin Marbeck is a spy for Queen Elizabeth in the year 1600. He travels under various pseudonyms with one mission…
The Midwife’s Tale
In June 1644, York midwife, widow, and gentlewoman Bridget Hodgson’s “gossip” Esther Cooper is accused of poisoning her strict, abusive…
Royalist Rebel
Elizabeth Murray, an actual historic person, was the eldest daughter of a fiercely Royalist Scottish family. Her father was a…
The Gilded Lily
Two teenage sisters, Ella and Sadie, escape from rural poverty to seek a living in Restoration London. We think we…
Merivel: A Man of His Time
Editors' choice
This is a sequel to Tremain’s 1989 novel, Restoration, which was a memoir of Sir Robert Merivel, physician, bon-viveur, friend…
A Plague of Lies
Right at the opening, this novel takes Hemingway’s advice to show “how the weather was” by vividly portraying a Paris…
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