17th Century
Sea of Troubles
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We have, in the first pages, a host of people of varying social position with confusing names, firmly in the writer’s mind ...Read Review
Vengeance Thwarted
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Daniel Wilson leads his sick brother away from the battlefield against the Scots and goes in search of food, just as Arabella (Bel) ...Read Review
Devil’s Charge
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When I was at school our history books gave the impression that the English Civil War was a rather gentlemanly affair between romantic ...Read Review
A Corruptible Crown
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The title is a quote from Charles II’s last speech, though the king makes no appearance in the story. Chapters alternate between ...Read Review
Deliverance From Evil
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The witch hysteria in Salem Village is familiar territory for fiction, but Frances Hill informs her novel with her own historical scholarship on ...Read Review
Before Versailles
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In Koen’s fourth fine novel (after Dark Angels, 2009), Louis XIV’s reign as French monarch is unique in unpredictable ways. He grows ...Read Review
Mist Over Pendle
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This is a new edition of Robert Neill’s classic 1951 tale of the notorious 1611 Pendle witch trials. Young orphan Margery Whitaker is viewed ...Read Review
Tamed by a Highlander
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1685: Highlander Connor Grant has served in the king’s army since he was no more than a lad. Now he is a member ...Read Review
Blood Work: A Tale of Medicine and Murder in the Scientific Revolution
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Who would have guessed that the earliest human blood transfusion was in 1667? Or that it transfused a dog’s blood into the patient? ...Read Review
The World Turned Upside Down
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The story opens in mid 17th-century England with Elizabeth Clark witnessing the death of her father at a clandestine church meeting when a ...Read Review
