18th Century
Nor The Battle To The Strong
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This novel of the American Revolution in the South is told from the contrasting viewpoints of Major General Nathanial Greene and Private James ...Read Review
Fire At Midnight
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Rachael Penrose has been confined to Bedlam by her wicked uncle Victor, who frames her in order to steal her inheritance. Unfortunately for ...Read Review
Hester: The Remarkable Life of Dr Johnson’s ‘Dear Mistress’
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This is the biography of Hester Thrale, nee Salusbury. Relying heavily on over thirty years of her own writings known charmingly as Thraliana, ...Read Review
Nathan Hale
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Nathan Hale was born in 1755, the child of a devout Connecticut family. At fifteen, he went to Yale, the path to either teaching ...Read Review
The Slave Ship, A Human History
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‘One of the recurrent sounds of a slave ship was song. The sailors sometimes played instruments and sang, but more commonly, day and ...Read Review
Lady Worsley’s Whim: An 18th-Century Tale of Sex, Scandal, and Divorce
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In the latter part of the 18th century, British society was enthralled and scandalised by the long-running and very public divorce battle between ...Read Review
The United States of Atlantis
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Atlantis has been settled by the English and the French for over 300 years. Now, at the end of the 18th century, and following ...Read Review
Napoleon in Egypt
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Paul Strathern is a rare example of an intellectual who is eminently qualified in diverse fields. An award-winning novelist, Strathern has also earned ...Read Review
The Revolution of Sabine
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Sabine Durand, an aristocratic sixteen-year-old living in 18th-century Paris, is growing weary of her mother’s fixation on society and entertaining. Obsessed with ...Read Review
The Four Seasons
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Two sisters, Chiaretta and Maddalena, are abandoned at a religious foundling home in 18th-century Venice. The Pietà raises its orphans to perform in ...Read Review
