17th Century
Freebooter
Navigator Hector Lynch is keen to give up a life of piracy and settle down with his pregnant wife, Maria, in…
Aphra Behn: A Secret Life
This revised and updated version of Janet Todd’s masterful biography of Aphra Behn shines a light on one of the…
The Cavalier Historian
Robert Hardwick has been hired to help develop an English Civil War-period themed attraction at Marston Manor. While paging through…
Dark Stars
Set in 1666 London, one month after the Great Fire, Dark Stars is the third book in the Thief Taker…
The Witchfinder’s Sister
Editors' choice
It’s 1645 in England as Alice Hopkins, a lost and penniless widow, returns to her brother Matthew’s home. Her once-shy…
Midnight Blue
Following the sudden death of her husband after a short-lived, disastrous marriage, young widow Catrin leaves her stifling life in a small village and moves…
The Executioner of St Paul’s
London, 1665. Plague is raging in the overcrowded city. Only the poor, or those struggling to keep the city’s infrastructure…
Life and Death of the Wicked Lady Skelton
Originally published in 1944, the Life and Death of the Wicked Lady Skelton follows the career of Barbara Skelton, a…
A Woman Named Sellers
In winter 1632, Jennet Sellers arrives at her cousins’ Lancashire farm. Only she and the cousins know that as a…
The Revolution of the Moon
Andrea Camilleri, author of the popular Inspector Montalbano mystery series, brings us an entertaining historical novel, written with tongue firmly…
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