18th Century

The Lizzie and Belle Mysteries: Drama and Danger

By Joanna Williams - Published 2022

Genres:

Children/Young AdultMystery/Crime

In the prologue to this middle-grade mystery, twelve-year-old Lizzie is told an African proverb by her wise mother: give voice to the lions, ...Read Review

The Hidden Saint

By Mark Levenson - Published 2022

Genres:

Historical Fantasy

Rabbi Adam’s family has been attacked by the supernatural. In his most desperate hour, he comes across an unfamiliar book. He uses ...Read Review

When the Day Comes (Timeless)

By Gabrielle Meyer - Published 2022

Genres:

Inspirational RomanceTime-slip

Like many readers, I have a weakness for time-travel novels, and this one adds an extra layer of intrigue. In the world Meyer ...Read Review

The Homecoming

By Anna Enquist - By Eileen J. Stevens (trans.) - Published 2022

Genres:

Biographical FictionLiterary

This latest novel from the bestselling Dutch author is a long, lyrical meditation on mourning and identity. Elizabeth Batts Cook is the wife ...Read Review

The Time Traveler’s Guide to Regency Britain: A Handbook for Visitors to 1789–1830

By Ian Mortimer - Published 2022

Genres:

Nonfiction

If you love the Regency era like I do, then this is the book for you! Within the pages of The Time Traveler’...Read Review

Pandora

By Susan Stokes-Chapman - Published 2022

Genres:

Set during the cold wet year of 1799, in the Dickensian milieu of a struggling London shop of antiquities, this story’s protagonists are ...Read Review

Lies that Blind: A Novel of Late 18th Century Penang

By E. S. Alexander - Published 2021

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1788 Calcutta, India: Jim, a nineteen-year-old Englishman, is a writer at the East India Company’s headquarters. Bored from mindless clerical activities, he aspires ...Read Review

Incomparable World (Black Britain: Writing Back, 1)

By S. I. Martin - Published 2021

Genres:

Literary

First published by Quartet in 1996, this is a rollicking account of Black lives in London and Middlesex during a specific period in the ...Read Review

Beyond the Lavender Fields

By Arlem Hawks - Published 2022

Genres:

Inspirational Romance

Marseille, France, 1792. During the French Revolution, Gilles Étienne, a former mariner and now a high-end soap manufacturer’s clerk, lives at home with ...Read Review

Hungry Death (A Cragg and Fidelis Mystery, 8)

By Robin Blake - Published 2022

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Winter of 1747 nears as Coroner Titus Cragg is summoned from his home in Preston to the English village of Warrington, where a farm ...Read Review