18th Century
Napoleon in Egypt
Paul Strathern is a rare example of an intellectual who is eminently qualified in diverse fields. An award-winning novelist, Strathern…
Lady Worsley’s Whim: An 18th-Century Tale of Sex, Scandal, and Divorce
In the latter part of the 18th century, British society was enthralled and scandalised by the long-running and very public…
The Slave Ship, A Human History
‘One of the recurrent sounds of a slave ship was song. The sailors sometimes played instruments and sang, but more…
Nathan Hale
Nathan Hale was born in 1755, the child of a devout Connecticut family. At fifteen, he went to Yale, the…
Hester: The Remarkable Life of Dr Johnson’s ‘Dear Mistress’
This is the biography of Hester Thrale, nee Salusbury. Relying heavily on over thirty years of her own writings known…
Den of Thieves
London, Paris, 1791. In this, the third of Cat Royal’s adventures, Cat finds herself homeless and penniless when the Drury…
The Sparrowhawk Companion
This companion to Edward Cline’s six-volume Sparrowhawk series contains seven essays, by the author and others, which nicely round out…
Commonwealth of Thieves : The Improbable Birth of Australia
Novelist and historian Keneally (Schindler’s List) takes on the inauspicious early years of white settlers in his homeland in…
Annette Vallon
Although I’m not a fan of novels written by men from a woman’s point of view, Annette Vallon disposed of…
The Blackstone Key
Editors' choice
Mary Finch receives an invitation from a rich, estranged uncle to meet him at White Ladies, his estate on the…
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