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18th Century

Hungry Death (A Cragg and Fidelis Mystery, 8)

By Robin Blake - Published 2022

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Winter of 1747 nears as Coroner Titus Cragg is summoned from his home in Preston to the English village of Warrington, where a farm ...Read Review

Winchelsea

By Alex Preston - Published 2022

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Set in 1742 on the south coast of England, Winchelsea is a tale of smugglers and skullduggery on the high seas. But make no ...Read Review

Loyalty

By Avi - Published 2022

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Children/Young Adult Literary

One spring day in 1774, thirteen-year-old Noah Cope watches members of the Sons of Liberty drag his father from their Massachusetts home and tar ...Read Review

The Fugitive Colours

By Nancy Bilyeau - Published 2022

Genres:

Mystery/Crime Thriller

The first historical thriller in Bilyeau’s series, The Blue, introduced Genevieve Planché, a Huguenot living in London’s Spitalfields who was coerced ...Read Review

A Woman of Gallantry

By Elisabeth McNeill - Published 2021

Genres:

Saga

Edinburgh, 1788: McNeill’s novel (first published in 1989) begins with the hanging of Deacon William Brodie, apparently upstanding member of the community by day ...Read Review

Precursor: A Novel about Ukrainian Philosopher Hryhoriy Skovoroda

By Vasyl Shevchuk - By Yuri Tkacz (trans.) - Published 2021

Genres:

Biographical Fiction Literary

Vasyl Shevchuk (1932-1999) is a Ukrainian writer, and his widely acclaimed 1969 novel Precursor has now been reissued in a new English translation. It ...Read Review

An Unfamiliar Duke (Georgian Gentleman, #4)

By Sian Ann Bessey - Published 2022

Genres:

Inspirational Romance

Betrothed since childhood in an agreement between their fathers, Rosalind Ainsworth and Sebastien Lumley, Duke of Kelford, haven’t set eyes on each ...Read Review

Austens of Broadford (The Midwife Chronicles)

By Carole Penfield - Published 2021

Genres:

Saga

To anyone else in early 18th-century England, Eliza Austen (Jane Austen’s great-grandmother) would appear to be the perfect daughter-in-law: she’s well-born, ...Read Review

Fortune’s Heir: 2 (The Ballantyne Chronicles)

By Alex Rutherford - Published 2022

Genres:

Adventure Military

Second in a series, this novel continues the career of Nicholas Ballantyne, exile from Scotland, following his life in India. Jaded from experience ...Read Review

The Colony of Good Hope

By Kim Leine - By Martin Aitken (trans.) - Published 2022

Genres:

Literary

When the King of Denmark colonises Greenland in 1728, he forcibly marries military prisoners to street women, then sends them to service a settlement ...Read Review