18th Century
La Dame d’Esprit: A Biography of the Marquise Du Châtelet
Gabrielle Emelie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, Marquise Du Châtelet (1706-1749) was indeed a woman of ésprit, a bright star among…
Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution
This biography with a twist follows the life of Marie Antoinette from her childhood in Austria to her execution in…
Memoirs of a Highland Lady
“On looking back I find little essential to regret and much, Oh so much, to be thankful for”. This is…
Samuel Adams: Father Of The American Revolution
Never president like his cousin John, not a military leader like George Washington, Samuel Adams seems to have become simply…
Liberty: The Lives And Times Of Six Women In Revolutionary France
The French Revolution and its aftermath is such a well-trodden path that it always needs a fresh focus. In this…
A Scented Palace: The Secret History Of Marie-Antoinette’s Perfumer
Jean-Louis Fargeon, son of a perfumer in the scent-rich town of Montpellier, France, apprenticed well and took his trade to…
The Black Hole: Money, Myth And Empire
In 1756 the Nawab of Bengal besieged the British East India Company’s fort in Calcutta and 146 people were imprisoned…
My Darling Heriott
Jane Brown has created a fascinating biography of Henrietta St. John: ‘My Darling Heriott’ of the title. Henrietta was born…
Magic Man
Magic Man is the finale for a series of books which began with Merely Magic in 2000. All take place…
Cruel Music
Third in her series of Baroque mysteries, Beverle Graves Myers’s Cruel Music finds Venetian castrato Tito Amato involved in the…
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