17th Century
The Indigo Ghosts (A Gabriel Tavener Mystery)
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Rural Devon physician Gabriel Taverner is summoned by his former ship’s captain Zeke Colt to board the recently docked Falco, search the ...Read Review
The Witch of Delft
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Holland, 1670: seventeen-year-old Mila Vos tramps across a wintry landscape that could have been painted by Ruisdael. Mila, who has inherited a gift for ...Read Review
The Jewel Thief
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Children/Young AdultMystery/Crime
For those who love romance novels mixed with a little mystery, The Jewel Thief is an enticing, well researched novel based on the ...Read Review
The Age of Witches
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In 1692 Massachusetts, Bridget Byshop is hanged as a witch and leaves two daughters who pass very different magical traditions to their descendants in ...Read Review
A Woman of the Road (The Honest Thieves Trilogy)
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Imagine if Roaring Girl Moll Cutpurse joined Dumas’ Three Musketeers and you have the story of Margaret Tanner, who escapes her cruel father ...Read Review
Written in Their Stars: The Lydiard Chronicles 1649-1664
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1649: The beheading of King Charles I tears the Apsley family apart. Luce Apsley Hutchinson, who encouraged her husband John to sign the order ...Read Review
A Roll of the Bones
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Orphaned as a child, Nancy spent most of her life as a servant in the Gale household. Close in age to the family’...Read Review
Fierce Dreamer
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Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1656) was raised in the almost exclusively male art world of 17th-century Italy. She had a natural eye for colour, texture, ...Read Review
Tyll
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Tyll Ulenspiegel was a German jester and trickster, and legend places his death in 1350. In this novel the German author Daniel Kehlmann has ...Read Review
Trailing the Hunter: A Novel of Misconception, Truth, and Love
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Norway, 1661. Clara has been tracking notorious witch-hunter Angus Hill, hoping to stop his murderous accusations of witchcraft that have already left many innocent ...Read Review