18th Century
Ranger
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1796: Arthur Charteris inherits a baronetcy and comes from Grenada to Leicestershire to claim it. With him are two servants and his child Alexander (...Read Review
Lily of the Valley (The Gents, #2)
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1786. Since Violet’s father has prospered in business, he decides to purchase an estate in Cumberland and join the gentry. But how are ...Read Review
Mademoiselle Revolution
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Sivak’s bold debut is an original take on the Haitian and French Revolutions, seen from the viewpoint of a biracial woman awakening ...Read Review
The Sheep, the Rooster, and the Duck
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Writer and illustrator Phelan has taken a true event—the Montgolfier brothers’ first hot air balloon flight in 1783 at Versailles in which three ...Read Review
That Bonesetter Woman
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London, 1757, and two very different sisters arrive on the stagecoach from Sussex. Endurance (‘Durie’) is strong and big-boned, while petite Lucinda cherishes acting ...Read Review
Gallows Road
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Set in the Colony of Connecticut in the 1750s and inspired by true events, this is the tale of Mercy Bramble, whose short ...Read Review
The House of Fortune
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Amsterdam, 1705: Eighteen years have passed since the events recounted in Burton’s The Miniaturist (2014). In this novel it is Thea Brandt, niece of ...Read Review
Unnatural Creatures: A Novel of the Frankenstein Women
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Worthy of comparison to Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea, in Unnatural Creatures, Kris Waldherr moves the lens of the Frankenstein story away ...Read Review
The Great Passion
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For anyone who loves the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, this novel about his composition of the St Matthew Passion for Good Friday, 1727, ...Read Review
The Bookseller of Inverness
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This is S. G. MacLean’s first stand-alone novel since her popular Damian Seeker series. In 1745, Jacobite Iain MacGillivray is left for dead ...Read Review
