18th Century
Marie-Therese: The Fate of Marie Antoinette’s Daughter
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Marie-Therese was the sole member of the Bourbon royal family to survive the French Revolution. She was just seventeen in early 1796 when her ...Read Review
Mutiny: A Novel of the Bounty
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AdventureBiographical FictionMilitary
Fourteen-year-old John Jacob Turnstile enters the Royal Navy in 1787 in the same way as many other 18th-century lower-class English citizens, given the choice ...Read Review
Celia Garth
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Celia Garth is tired of being a poor relation. Determined to make her way as a dressmaker in revolutionary Charleston, South Carolina, ...Read Review
Flint and Silver: A Prequel to Treasure Island
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There are writers today who have hitched their wagon to a classical star such as Jane Austen and based their stories on ...Read Review
To Beguile a Beast
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After the Battle of Spinner’s Falls in the American colonies, the British survivors and their allies are marched into an Indian ...Read Review
The Witching Voice
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The date of publication for this novel of Robert Burns’s life and work was the 250th anniversary of poet’s birth. ...Read Review
The Way It Was
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The novel opens on the cusp of the American War of Independence in 1775. Opening the story before the war at a recruitment ...Read Review
The Naqib’s Daughter
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As in her previous, acclaimed novel, The Cairo House, the setting is Cairo, but now it is the late 18th century. Napoleon ...Read Review
The Red Siren
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Twenty-four-year-old Faith Westcott leads a double life: By day, she is the obedient daughter of Rear Admiral Westcott in their Charleston home ...Read Review
An Affair Before Christmas
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In 1778 Paris, the Duke of Fletcher falls in love with Miss Perdita ‘Poppy’ Selby. Swept away by the charm of Parisian Christmas-time, he ...Read Review
