18th Century
Woman, Captain, Rebel: The Extraordinary True Story of a Daring Icelandic Sea Captain
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Thurídur Einarsdóttir (1777-1863) was born in a hamlet on the harsh coast of Iceland, the child of a poor seasonal fishing ...Read Review
The Edinburgh Skating Club
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The story recounts how poet Alison Cockburn accepts a challenge from philosopher David Hume and his sister Katherine to bring her intellect to ...Read Review
A Taste of Betrayal: A Faith Clarke Mystery
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In 1775 Williamsburg, the colonial capital of Virginia, tempers flare between loyalists to King George III and patriots craving independence. Tavern keeper Faith Clarke, ...Read Review
Jamie MacGillivray: The Renegade’s Journey
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Scotland, 1746, and Jamie MacGillivray, shivering in the rain, brings a message from France to Lord Lovat, the Auld Fox, his Hogarth portrait vividly ...Read Review
A Child of the Dales
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1785: On the edges of the Yorkshire moors and dales, a mother and her foundling daughter make their living running a remote inn, with ...Read Review
In the Upper Country
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In 1859, in an all-Black town in Canada West (modern Ontario), a hub for the Underground Railroad, a female journalist agrees to interview an ...Read Review
The Curious Life of Elizabeth Blackwell
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Aberdeen, 1730: the cultured, restless Elizabeth Blachrie resists her parents’ attempts to marry her to a dull but suitable man, for she is in ...Read Review
Journey Back to Freedom: The Olaudah Equiano Story
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In 1756, an 11-year-old African boy is on guard in his village while his parents go to market. He spots slave traders who terrorise ...Read Review
A Time to Fight
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Once a grenadier in the Royal Army, Will Sturt returns home to Goudhurst, England, after four years of fighting. Much has changed, but ...Read Review
Sailor of Liberty (The Philippe Kermorvant Thrillers, 1)
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1793: France is in the grip of a fanatical regime and the age of Madame Guillotine as terror rules and heads fall. Philippe Kermorvant, ...Read Review