18th Century
Commonwealth of Thieves : The Improbable Birth of Australia
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Novelist and historian Keneally (Schindler’s List) takes on the inauspicious early years of white settlers in his homeland in this densely-packed ...Read Review
Theft of Shadows
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Gabriel d’Aubrigny, Chevalier de Lesgardes, finds himself returning to England after living through the years of the Revolution in France, but unfortunately, ...Read Review
Mutiny on the Bounty
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Mistress of the Revolution
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Though Gabrielle de Montserrat was born into the minor aristocracy of France’s Auvergne region and convent-educated, she is less concerned with class ...Read Review
All for Love
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Elyot has written three fictional memoirs about women whose passions ruled their lives. Like Helen of Troy (The Memoirs of Helen of Troy) ...Read Review
