18th Century
The Queen’s Embroiderer: A True Story of Paris, Lovers, Swindlers, and the First Stock Market Crisis
What kind of man secures a royal decree to lock up his pregnant daughter and ship her to the colonies?…
A Refuge Assured
Lacemaker Vivienne Rivard flees the Terror of the French Revolution to relocate to the French Quarter of Philadelphia, along with…
The Devil’s Half Mile
Editors' choice
In 1799, infant America’s largest city, New York, already has the beginnings of a rip-roaring financial district, which will later…
Apostles of Revolution: Jefferson, Paine, Monroe, and the Struggle Against the Old Order in America And Europe
Ferling’s new entry explores the vision of Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, and James Monroe of an independent America and a…
Slave Old Man
This novel begins: “In slavery times in the sugar isles,” which we later deduce to be Martinique. It’s an arresting…
Ill Will: The Untold Story of Heathcliff
What happened to Heathcliff after he left Wuthering Heights in Emily Brontë’s novel, only to return three years later, a…
The Gallows Pole
Editors' choice
George III notwithstanding, there’s only one king in West Yorkshire: “King” David Hartley, leader of a local gang of “coiners.”…
Keturah
England, 1772. Shortly after news arrives of their father’s death, the Banning sisters also learn of his mounting debts. Determined…
Love & War
In this sequel to Alex & Eliza, Alexander Hamilton has married Elizabeth Schuyler. It’s 1781 and Alex, anxious to be…
The Electrical Venus
At some time in the 18th century (annoyingly, the book gives no more specific clue), Mim is a mixed-race teenage…
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