18th Century
The Wake of the Lorelei Lee
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L. A. Meyer has penned another winner in The Wake of the Lorelei Lee, the eighth installment in the brilliantly entertaining, often madcap 19...Read Review
Palace of Justice
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October 1793, Paris: Marie Antoinette is on her way to the guillotine, and police investigator Aristide Ravel realizes that a headless body found by ...Read Review
Into the Storm
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Into the Storm traces the work of real-life Lionel Lukin (known at that time for expensive Lukin coaches), as he is led to ...Read Review
The Poison Diaries
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Sixteen-year-old Jessamine lives an isolated existence with her apothecary father in 18th-century Northumberland, tending the medicine gardens and learning which plants can cure ...Read Review
Blown Off Course
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Blown Off Course is the seventh in David Donachie’s adventures of John Pearce, radical, press-ganged man, and reluctant Navy officer. John has ...Read Review
Eclipse
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This is the story of perhaps the greatest racehorse of all time, unbeaten throughout his career and so feared by rivals that finally ...Read Review
Madame Tussaud: A Novel of the French Revolution
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Everyone knows Madame Tussaud’s; the name conjures photo ops of smiling celebrities standing next to perfect likenesses of themselves in wax. Moran ...Read Review
The Forbidden Rose
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Joanna Bourne’s knowledge of the characters and events of the French Revolution are well-grounded, making The Forbidden Rose nicely authentic. The story ...Read Review
Inventing George Washington
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George Washington, hailed by a modern biographer as “indispensible,” was once a man, but he has become a kind of inkblot, a projection ...Read Review
Legacy
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A spark has the power to transform darkness and dullness to brilliant light and dynamic purpose; and security isn’t always the warm, ...Read Review
