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18th Century

Pirate Code

By Helen Hollick - Published 2011

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“In the sexiest pirate contest, Capt Jesamiah Acorne gives Johnny Depp’s Jack Sparrow a run for his money” so runs the quote ...Read Review

The Midwife’s Revolt

By Jodi Daynard - Published 2015

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Mystery/Crime

In the spring of 1775, America finds itself at war with England. Young Jeb and Lizzie Boylston said goodbye to one another after settling ...Read Review

Murder at Cirey: A Victor Constant Investigation

By Cheryl Sawyer - Published 2015

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Mystery/Crime

Murder at Cirey is a very accomplished novel which I thoroughly enjoyed reading. It concerns Victor Constant, a young member of the French ...Read Review

Precious Pawn

By Mary Martin Devlin - Published 2014

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“Can fortune fail to shine on a face like that?” In 1743, with visions of her extraordinary beauty dancing in his head, the degenerate ...Read Review

The Vagabond Vicar

By Charlotte Brentwood - Published 2014

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Romance

The story concerns a young vicar, William Brook, who dreams of working as a missionary abroad; instead he is sent to a sleepy ...Read Review

Anna’s Crossing

By Suzanne Woods Fisher - Published 2015

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Inspirational Romance

Anna König is a reluctant passenger on the Charming Nancy, the historic ship that brought the first group of Amish to America ...Read Review

The First Vet

By Linda Chamberlain - Published 2014

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Biographical Fiction

Taking its inspiration from the first veterinary college and its students, The First Vet opens in London in 1794, and focuses on the true ...Read Review

The Figaro Murders

By Laura Lebow - Published 2015

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Mystery/Crime

Lorenzo Da Ponte, court librettist in 1786 Vienna, is in trouble: not only hasn’t he finished his libretto for Mozart’s opera The ...Read Review

A Desperate Fortune

By Susanna Kearsley - Published 2015

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Amateur code-breaker Sara Thomas is engaged to decipher a cryptic journal left behind by Mary Dundas more than three hundred years previously. Sara’...Read Review

The Iron Masters

By Graham Watkins - Published 2014

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Military Nautical

“In the 18th century five men created the biggest industrial city civilisation had ever seen. They were the Iron Masters, masters of metal ...Read Review