17th Century
Blood’s Campaign
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In this third volume of the series, Holcroft Blood, on the Williamite Campaign in Ireland in 1689-1690, is ready to unleash cannons on ...Read Review
Pax
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As a postgraduate student more than three decades ago I had reason to be grateful to Dr. Harvey for his Victorian Novelists and ...Read Review
The Honourable Life of Thomas Chayne
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Thomas Chayne is the eponymous narrator of this story, set in England in the troublesome first half of the 17th century. He is ...Read Review
Reunited at the King’s Court (Harlequin Historical: English Civil War)
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Reunited at the King’s Court has an intriguing setting — the very start of Restoration England, as the newly anointed Charles II reclaims ...Read Review
The Sorcerer’s Whore
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Toby Chyrche has little in the way of legacy from his father, except for a book in a language he cannot understand and ...Read Review
Realm of Ash (The Books of Ambha)
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Loosely based on the Mughal Empire, Realm of Ash lures its reader into the story with richly imaged, lapidary prose. Against a background ...Read Review
Beheld
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American history reveres the Pilgrims, families seeking to escape persecution and freely practice their religion in the New World. Yet a colony devoted ...Read Review
The Mercies
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Kiran Millwood Hargrave’s debut adult novel, The Mercies, is set on a remote island in Norway in the early 17th century. Loosely ...Read Review
Under The Microscope
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London 1677. Ezzabell Chetwood supports her husband Ambrose by painting botanical specimens to support research he hopes to publish with the Royal Society, then ...Read Review
Twenty Years After: A Sequel to The Three Musketeers (Musketeers Cycle)
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Translator Lawrence Ellsworth has triumphantly returned to Dumas’s Musketeers cycle with this fresh translation of Twenty Years After. In 1648, Cardinal Richelieu is ...Read Review