17th Century
The Hemlock Cure
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The story is centred mostly in the Derbyshire village of Eyam, famous as the place where the residents agreed to quarantine themselves in 1666 ...Read Review
The Plague Letters
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The plague is creeping through London, parish by parish. It is the summer of 1665, and those who can are escaping the city. Symon ...Read Review
Unfinished: The Inspired Life of Elisabetta Sirani
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Unfinished tells the story of the remarkable 17th-century Italian painter Elisabetta Sirani, who became one of the greatest artists of her time but ...Read Review
My Queen, My Love: A Novel of Henrietta Maria
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Henrietta Maria in this book’s subtitle was the daughter of Henri IV (1553-1610), France’s first Bourbon king, and his wife Marie (1575...Read Review
And By Fire
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Detective Inspector Nigella Parker of the Crime Investigation Directorate partners with London Metro policeman Colm O’Leary when first a wood effigy and ...Read Review
Still Life
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Antwerp, 1604: Clara Peeters, aged ten, is already a gifted painter when her mother dies in childbirth. The title Still Life refers to Peeters’ ...Read Review
A Net for Small Fishes
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Biographical FictionLiteraryThriller
London, 1609. Anne Turner, seamstress and mother of six with a much older husband and heavy debts, can’t believe her luck when she’...Read Review
The Forest of Moon and Sword
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In 1647, Britain is riven by civil wars. When Arty’s mother is taken away by soldiers, she finds herself at the heart of ...Read Review
Before the Fortress Falls
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In the summer of 1683, the nations of Europe are under threat of extinction at the hands of the invading Turks of the Ottoman ...Read Review
Kemosha of the Caribbean
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In 1668, young Kemosha, an enslaved Jamaican, is sold away from the plantation where she and her brother Gregory have toiled for a new ...Read Review