19th Century
The Excursion Train
This second novel in the Detective Inspector Colbeck mysteries is now in reprint with a splendidly eye-catching new cover. Robert…
The Railway Detective
The first novel in the Detective Inspector Colbeck Mysteries has a handsome new cover in honour of its reprint. 1851:…
An Affair of Honor
In this fifth novel in the award-winning Honor Series, Lieutenant Peter Wake is the executive officer on board the U.S.S.…
Ways to Be Wicked
Sylvie Lamoureux, prima ballerina of the Paris ballet, takes a daring leap and finds herself penniless in a generically described…
The Taste of Innocence
In 1833, Charles Morwellan, 8th Earl of Meredith, returns home resigned to marry; it is time and it will please…
Measuring the World
With its lively translation, Daniel Kehlmann’s Measuring the World tells the parallel stories of two scientists who were child prodigies,…
Grant and Sherman: The Friendship that Won the Civil War
Ulysses S. Grant and William T. Sherman are universally recognized as the most distinguished Union officers of the American Civil…
Confessions of a Viscount
If you are a regular reader of historical romance novels, you’ve probably encountered this plot before. Karr’s storyline is not…
The School for Heiresses
A delightful collection of four passionate Regency-era short stories by different authors is tied together through the heroines, all pupils…
The Twisting Vine
When Lord Farnley’s young daughter dies, her maid, Lucy Oldfield, is ordered to burn the child’s expensive French doll. Unable…
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