18th Century
Burning Bright
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The novel takes its title from what is probably William Blake’s most famous poem, and its premise is the contrasting, but closely ...Read Review
Valley Forge: A Novel of the American Revolution
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British Army Captain Jamie Skoyles marches on in author David Garland’s successor novel to Saratoga. Captain Skoyles had been taken prisoner along ...Read Review
The Nature of Monsters
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This is Clare Clark’s second novel and, like her first, The Great Stink, it is immersed in the filth, chaos and downright ...Read Review
Bluebird, or the Invention of Happiness
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Upon occasion a reviewer is familiar with the source material for a fictional biographical novel, and therefore dreads the transformation from actual to ...Read Review
The Chatelet Apprentice
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Paris, 1761. A senior police officer disappears and raw recruit, Nicolas Le Floch, is instructed to find him. When unidentified human remains come to ...Read Review
Haym Salomon: American Patriot
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Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult
Susan Goldman Rubin does it again. The author of favorites The Cat With The Yellow Star and Fireflies in the Dark, among other ...Read Review
A Family of Strangers
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Young servant Kate O’Neal is transported to Botany Bay from England in 1793 after injuring her wealthy rapist. To survive the dangerous crossing ...Read Review
Adopted Son: Washington, Lafayette, and the Friendship that Saved the Revolution
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This is one of those stories where life is stranger than fiction. A young French nobleman is orphaned by a British bullet that ...Read Review
Broken Harmony
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Historical FantasyMystery/Crime
This is the first in a line of historical mysteries to be published by Crème de la Crime. The scene is Newcastle-upon-Tyne ...Read Review
Marta’s Promise
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In 1766, many German Protestant religious minorities respond to Russia’s offer of open immigration, which includes free farmland, and they risk imprisonment and ...Read Review
