18th Century
The Blood And The Barley (The Strathavon Saga)
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Set in a close-knit crofting community below the Cromdale Hills (north-east Highlands of Scotland) in 1780, this novel opens with a Beltane ceremony, in ...Read Review
Blood & Sugar
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June 1781. Captain Harry Corsham is a veteran of the American War. He looks set to pursue a promising political career, and he dotes ...Read Review
Casanova and the Faceless Woman
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Only the devil himself is quicker. When Louis XV’s Inspector of Strange and Unexplained Deaths is called upon to examine the corpse ...Read Review
Convicts in the Colonies: Transportation Tales from Britain to Australia
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The most interesting part of Convicts in the Colonies is the section about the English and Irish convicts who were sentenced to be ...Read Review
The Opium Purge (Lady Fan Mystery)
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Ottillia Fanshawe, called “Lady Fan,” is the wife of Lord Francis Fanshawe and an amateur detective in England of 1790. While visiting her mother-in-law, ...Read Review
The Almanack
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Saturated with beautiful images of the natural world in mid-18th century rural England, Bailey’s third mystery evokes a time when people ...Read Review
Goya: The Terrible Sublime: A Graphic Novel
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The work of artist Francisco de Goya (1746-1828) runs the gamut from sedate portraits of the Spanish royal family to pornographic nudes to ...Read Review
John Law: A Scottish Adventurer of the Eighteenth Century
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James Buchan has written an erudite and highly readable life of John Law, the son of a master goldsmith in Edinburgh. He moved ...Read Review
The Blue
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Genevieve Planché, granddaughter of French Huguenots, desperately wants to escape her stifling existence in Spitalfields to be a “history painter” in the fashion ...Read Review
Endeavour: The Ship and the Attitude that Changed the World
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Ranked among ships of historic note—Drake’s Golden Hind, Bligh’s Bounty, Franklin’s Erebus, Titanic—is the Endeavour, in which Lieutenant ...Read Review