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Mutiny: A Novel of the Bounty
Fourteen-year-old John Jacob Turnstile enters the Royal Navy in 1787 in the same way as many other 18th-century lower-class English…
The Witching Voice
The date of publication for this novel of Robert Burns’s life and work was the 250th anniversary of poet’s…
The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein
Peter Ackroyd’s fiction has a strong historical rooting, particularly in novels like Hawksmoor and Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem,…
Envoy of the Black Pine
‘This is a very strange book,’ I was told after I had agreed to review it. It moves between the…
A Kingdom For The Brave
The story begins seven years after the first settlers arrived in New South Wales, following the fortunes of three interconnected…
An Affair Before Christmas
In 1778 Paris, the Duke of Fletcher falls in love with Miss Perdita ‘Poppy’ Selby. Swept away by the charm…
Lucasta
Brown-haired, brown-eyed Lucasta is not surprised when Viscount Kennington falls instantly in love with her blonde and blue-eyed sister, Camilla,…
Lady Worsley’s Whim: An 18th-Century Tale of Sex, Scandal, and Divorce
In the latter part of the 18th century, British society was enthralled and scandalised by the long-running and very public…
The Slave Ship, A Human History
‘One of the recurrent sounds of a slave ship was song. The sailors sometimes played instruments and sang, but more…
Hester: The Remarkable Life of Dr Johnson’s ‘Dear Mistress’
This is the biography of Hester Thrale, nee Salusbury. Relying heavily on over thirty years of her own writings known…
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