18th Century
Paper Woman
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Set during the American Revolution, Paper Woman follows Sophie Barton’s attempts to learn the truth behind the murders of her rebel father ...Read Review
Love in a Bottle
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Sophie Andrews is more interested in botany than in her parents’ plan to marry her off advantageously, as befitting a wellborn young lady ...Read Review
Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution
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This biography with a twist follows the life of Marie Antoinette from her childhood in Austria to her execution in France, concentrating on ...Read Review
Mr Midshipman Fury
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Ah, at last a new series dealing with the adventures you could have aboard a ship during what Marryat called “the golden age ...Read Review
La Dame d’Esprit: A Biography of the Marquise Du Châtelet
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Gabrielle Emelie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, Marquise Du Châtelet (1706-1749) was indeed a woman of ésprit, a bright star among the philosophes ...Read Review
Wolf’s Temptation
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It is 1776 and Ethan Gray, a spymaster called the Wolf, is on the hunt for a smuggler shipping arms to colonial rebels in ...Read Review
Jack Absolute
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“Rollicking” is not a word I usually use, but it perfectly describes C.C. Humphreys’ new novel, Jack Absolute. The title character claims ...Read Review
A King’s Trade
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It’s 1799, and the Napoleonic Wars have just begun. Alan Lewrie, captain of the 32-gun British frigate HMS Proteus, is in trouble – again. ...Read Review
Cruel Music
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Third in her series of Baroque mysteries, Beverle Graves Myers’s Cruel Music finds Venetian castrato Tito Amato involved in the machinations to ...Read Review
My Darling Heriott
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Jane Brown has created a fascinating biography of Henrietta St. John: ‘My Darling Heriott’ of the title. Henrietta was born in 1699; her lineage ...Read Review
