18th Century

The Iron Tongue of Midnight

By Beverle Graves Myers - Published 2008

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

This fourth volume in the series featuring castrato opera singer Tito Amato is the author’s tribute to the country house mystery. In ...Read Review

Black Heart of Jamaica

By Julia Golding - Published 2008

Genres:

AdventureChildren/Young Adult

1792. In Cat Royal’s fifth adventure, our heroine finds herself and her African virtuoso violinist friend, Pedro, sailing to Jamaica with the Peabody ...Read Review

Mittee

By Daphne Rook - Published 2008

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Mittee was first published in 1951. The story is set in the Transvaal in the late 18th century. The new edition includes an afterword ...Read Review

Mary Ann and Miss Mozart

By Ann Turnbull - Published 2007

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

London, 1764. Twelve-year-old Mary Ann is thrilled to be going to Miss Neave’s Boarding School for Young Ladies at 6 Chelsea Walk. She longs ...Read Review

Mutiny on the Bounty

By John Boyne - Published 2008

Genres:

AdventureBiographical FictionNautical

In December 1787, a fourteen-year-old boy, John Jacob Turnstile, is arrested in Portsmouth for picking the pocket of a mysterious Frenchman. Due to his ...Read Review

The Duchess and the Dragon

By Jamie Carie - Published 2008

Genres:

InspirationalRomance

The Duchess and the Dragon is an inspirational romance set in the mid-18th century. His father’s shocking new will denies Drake ...Read Review

The Rosetta Key

By William Dietrich - Published 2008

Genres:

AdventureMilitary

This sequel to 2005’s Napoleon’s Pyramids finds its engaging, amoral antihero, Ethan Gage, at the tail end of the 18th century, still ...Read Review

The Sparrowhawk Companion

By Edward Cline - By Jena Trammell - Published 2007

Genres:

Nonfiction

This companion to Edward Cline’s six-volume Sparrowhawk series contains seven essays, by the author and others, which nicely round out the reader’...Read Review

An Awkward Commission

By David Donachie - Published 2008

Genres:

AdventureMilitaryNautical

This is the third novel in Donachie’s 1790s naval series and so continues the story of John Pearce and his friends, who ...Read Review

A Flag of Truce

By David Donachie - Published 2008

Genres:

AdventureMilitaryNautical

Toulon, 1793. In this fourth John Pearce adventure, our hero, now a naval lieutenant, continues to be a thorn in the flesh of Authority. ...Read Review