18th Century
The Homecoming
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This latest novel from the bestselling Dutch author is a long, lyrical meditation on mourning and identity. Elizabeth Batts Cook is the wife ...Read Review
Pandora
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Set during the cold wet year of 1799, in the Dickensian milieu of a struggling London shop of antiquities, this story’s protagonists are ...Read Review
Lies that Blind: A Novel of Late 18th Century Penang
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1788 Calcutta, India: Jim, a nineteen-year-old Englishman, is a writer at the East India Company’s headquarters. Bored from mindless clerical activities, he aspires ...Read Review
Incomparable World (Black Britain: Writing Back, 1)
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First published by Quartet in 1996, this is a rollicking account of Black lives in London and Middlesex during a specific period in the ...Read Review
Beyond the Lavender Fields
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Marseille, France, 1792. During the French Revolution, Gilles Étienne, a former mariner and now a high-end soap manufacturer’s clerk, lives at home with ...Read Review
Hungry Death (A Cragg and Fidelis Mystery, 8)
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Winter of 1747 nears as Coroner Titus Cragg is summoned from his home in Preston to the English village of Warrington, where a farm ...Read Review
Winchelsea
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Set in 1742 on the south coast of England, Winchelsea is a tale of smugglers and skullduggery on the high seas. But make no ...Read Review
Loyalty
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One spring day in 1774, thirteen-year-old Noah Cope watches members of the Sons of Liberty drag his father from their Massachusetts home and tar ...Read Review
The Truth Keepers
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In January of 1793, the French king loses his head during the country’s revolution. For young Amelia Nicolau, this is just the beginning, ...Read Review
The Fugitive Colours
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The first historical thriller in Bilyeau’s series, The Blue, introduced Genevieve Planché, a Huguenot living in London’s Spitalfields who was coerced ...Read Review