18th Century
Nanberry: Black Brother White
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AdventureBiographical FictionChildren/Young Adult
When Nanberry sees the great ships of the white-skinned ghost-people sailing into Sydney Cove, he does not realise that he is witnessing the ...Read Review
Scandalous Desires
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Widow Silence Hollingbrook has a quiet life, working as headmistress of a foundlings’ home in the stews of St. Giles. When one of ...Read Review
The Whites of Their Eyes: Bunker Hill, the First American Army, and the Emergence of George Washington
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Few events in American history have stirred the national imagination as much as the heroic stand of ragtag colonial militia against crack British ...Read Review
Cold Cruel Winter
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This is the second novel about the crime-solving exploits of Richard Nottingham, Constable of Leeds in the 1730s, and follows on from The ...Read Review
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman
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In 1744, Sophia, a 14-year-old German princess, arrived in Moscow as a bride-to-be. In this biography, Massie tells us how Sophia became the woman ...Read Review
Mozart’s Last Aria
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Cross-genre novels used to be considered unpublishable, but no more. Mozart’s Last Aria could be defined as historical mystery laced with strong ...Read Review
The Black Banner
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The Black Banner is the tale of 13-year-old Billy Baxter, but Billy has a secret; Billy isn’t a Billy. He’s a ...Read Review
The Ronin’s Mistress: A Novel of Feudal Japan
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Sano Ichiro, the heroic investigator of this novel, has been demoted from chancellor to investigator because of the machinations of Yanigisawa, now the ...Read Review
The Quality of Mercy
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Barry Unsworth’s new novel takes up the stories of two characters who originally appeared in his Booker Prize-winning Sacred Hunger. It begins ...Read Review
The Nightmare: A Mystery with Mary Wollstonecraft
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In 1792, Mary Wollstonecraft has just published her A Vindication of the Rights of Woman and is active with the men and women of ...Read Review
