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18th Century

The Fields of Fortune

By Jessica Stirling - Published 2008

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On the brink of being coerced into an unwanted marriage to an old, albeit rich, neighbour, young Nicola Templeton flees to Georgian Edinburgh ...Read Review

In Mozart’s Shadow

By Carolyn Meyer - Published 2008

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Biographical Fiction Children/Young Adult

You’ll see them in early depictions of “The Mozart Family.” There they are, sister and brother, hands crossed as they perform some ...Read Review

The Kit-Cat Club: Friends Who Imagined a Nation

By Ophelia Field - Published 2008

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Nonfiction

In the late 1690s, a bookseller named Jacob Tonson began a scheme of paying young writers by feeding them in return for the ...Read Review

Touching Distance

By Rebecca Abrams - Published 2008

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Based on a true story, this is an account of how Dr Alec Gordon struggles to understand how a mysterious disease, puerperal fever, ...Read Review

A Lady’s Secret

By Jo Beverley - Published 2008

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Romance

Fans of Jo Beverley will be glad to learn that there is a new romance on the market involving the intriguing Malloren family. ...Read Review

Midwife of the Blue Ridge

By Christine Blevins - Published 2008

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This novel begins just after the battle at Culloden Moor in 1746, when young Maggie Duncan joins the Cameron household, having just lost her ...Read Review

Johnny One Eye: A Tale of the American Revolution

By Jerome Charyn - Published 2008

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Johnny One-Eye is a cleverly written and well-crafted glimpse of some of the leading British and American characters of the American Revolution through ...Read Review

The Lightstep

By John Dickinson - Published 2008

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Epic

Once upon a time Michel Wery had been a firm supporter of the French Revolution, but the Terror, the atrocities and the new ...Read Review

Rules of War

By Iain Gale - Published 2008

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Adventure Military

This is the second in the series of adventures of Captain Jack Steel, first introduced to us in Man of Honour. In the ...Read Review

To Taste Temptation

By Elizabeth Hoyt - Published 2008

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Romance

The unknown situation surrounding her brother’s death during the Battle of Spinner’s Falls in the American colonies haunts Lady Emeline Gordon, ...Read Review