18th Century
A Tainted Dawn: The Great War 1792-1815, Book 1
The beginning of an intended series spanning the Georgian/Regency period (or, si vous préférez, the Revolutionary/Napoleonic), A Tainted Dawn follows the fortunes…
Fate
Editors' choice
In 1717, on his 17th birthday, Lord Francis Damory discovers a book linking him to his great-great grandfather, Tobias, an…
Moonlit Desire
New York Colony, June 1759: The height of the French and Indian War. Recently wed Catherine Bradshaw and husband Jeremy…
William and Lucy
This novel imagines the love affair between William Wordsworth and his muse Lucy Sims as the inspiration for his poem…
Storks in a Blue Sky
The novel begins in a rainy 18th-century North Devon, England. It is a story of many things, which are wound…
The First Apostle
The First Apostle is a fictionalized biography of Camille Desmoulins. He was the first to envision France as a Republic…
Hodburn Wood
Hodburn Wood’s lead character is Hillary Belsingham, the owner of an estate in northeast England, who is returning in 1798…
The Jacobites’ Apprentice
Editors' choice
It can be difficult making an editor’s choice of a book that is published by my own UK Independent Publisher…
A Simple Murder
Maine, 1796, a Shaker settlement. The Shakers are a fascinating movement; their lifestyle and worldview could make for an absorbing…
Season of Light
Thomasina (Asa) Ardleigh is 19 years old and wants to change the world. In Paris in the spring of 1788,…
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