18th Century
Miss Austen Investigates
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Jane Austen’s world, with its intelligent heroines, romance and issues of propriety, is blended deliciously with murder mystery motifs, resulting in an ...Read Review
The Cook of Castamar
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In this period drama, set in Madrid in 1720, Clara, high-born but without means, obtains a position as assistant cook in the palace of ...Read Review
The Book of Perilous Dishes
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First published in Romanian in 2017 and set in Bucharest under Turkish rule at the end of the 18th century, The Book of Perilous ...Read Review
Sparks of Bright Matter
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O’Donnell’s debut is a surreal meditation on medieval science in Georgian London, centering an illustrated and highly sought-after book, the Mutus ...Read Review
A Provincial Peer
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1796. To recuperate from the ravages of smallpox that took her naval husband’s life, Caroline Granger returns to the home of her widowed ...Read Review
Blood of the Knights (The Gracchus & Vanderville Mysteries, 3)
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It’s June 1798 when French Lieutenant Vanderville perilously and secretly enters Valletta, the fortified capital of the island of Malta. General Bonaparte, on ...Read Review
The Engraver’s Secret
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This dual-timeline novel has its roots in a feud between the Flemish artist, Peter Paul Rubens, and his principal engraver, Lucas Vorsterman. Canadian ...Read Review
Sheep Are Simply Less Trouble Than Scotsmen
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Set in Scotland of the 1790s the curiously titled Sheep Are Simply Less Trouble Than Scotsmen tells the story of Kittie, a young ...Read Review
How Far We’ve Come
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The seventeen-year-old protagonist of this novel has two names, two identities: she is Orrinda, her slave name for services to Miss Frida up ...Read Review
Queen Charlotte Sophia: A Royal Affair
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1752, Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Germany. Princess Charlotte Sophia’s father reveals a secret about their family history before his sudden death. Their final conversation beings her ...Read Review
