18th Century
The Last Tea Bowl Thief
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In present-day Tokyo, Nori Okuda thinks she may have found a tea bowl crafted by the Pottery Priest Yoshi Takamatsu in the 1700s. ...Read Review
My Last Duchess
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The first of two novellas, My Last Duchess is a prequel to the author’s Wildes of Lindow Castle series. Set in 1766, it ...Read Review
The Daughters of George III: Sisters and Princesses
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Curzon sketches the lives of King George III of England and Queen Charlotte’s six unusual daughters in this entertaining history. Though devoted ...Read Review
Nanteos: The Dipping Pool
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A companion to Blank’s The Shadow of Nanteos (2015), set in 1750s Cardiganshire, this novel tells the story not only of Thomas and ...Read Review
Eleonora and Joseph
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Rodrigues tells the story of Eleonora Fonseca Pimentel and Joseph Correia da Serra, two remarkable people from late 18th-century Naples. Eleonora is the ...Read Review
The Running Wolf
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Master sword-maker Hermann Mohll is forced to flee Solingen in Germany in the 1680s as work dries up. He follows what keeps his ...Read Review
Highland Heart: Love in the Time of War
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In this near-the-Highlands romance, set in 1746, young Frenchwoman Madeleine de Marnay is a 17-year-old who falls inexplicably in love with 28-year-old Colonel Gareth ...Read Review
The Intoxicating Mr Lavelle
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London 1763, and brothers Edgar and Benjamin Bowen are to embark upon The Grand Tour to mainland Europe. They are close in age, around ...Read Review
Forget Me Not (The Gents Book #1)
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After the death of his brother in the American Revolution, Lucas Jonquil set forth to see the world—or at least Europe. Now ...Read Review
The Silver Collar
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The Silver Collar is the fourth in Antonia Hodgson’s series about Thomas Hawkins and Kitty Sparks. I had read the first – The ...Read Review
