18th Century

The Court of Miracles (Vampyria Saga)

By Françoise Bui (trans.) - By Victor Dixen - Published 2024

Genres:

Historical Fantasy

In the second Vampyri novel, Diane de Gastefriche is now squire to the vampyre King Louis XIV, a reward for foiling a plot ...Read Review

Song of the Samurai

By C. A. Parker - Published 2024

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

In 1745 Japan, Kinko Kurosawa, a Zen Buddhist priest, is banished from his monastery for an impropriety and sets out for a distant monastery ...Read Review

Red Runs the Witch’s Thread

By Victoria Williamson - Published 2024

Genres:

1722 – Paisley, Scotland. Widow Christian Millar refuses to sell her almost-but-not-quite-perfect white thread to a dealer, who offers her a pittance for what he ...Read Review

All the World Beside

By Garrard Conley - Published 2024

Genres:

Literary

Conley’s debut novel brings us to a small Massachusetts town—the symbolically-named Cana—while dramatizing an affair between two married Puritan men ...Read Review

An Etrog from Across the Sea

By Deborah Bodin Cohen - By Kerry Olitzky - By Stacey Dressen McQueen (illus.) - Published 2024

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Young Leah and Aaron receive a letter from their Papa, who is sailing from Corsica to colonial New York. He promises to bring ...Read Review

Heathcliff’s Fortune

By Robert Gordon - Published 2024

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This novel is set during the two-year period in Wuthering Heights when, having overheard Cathy’s decision to marry someone else, Heathcliff abandons ...Read Review

The Betrayal of Thomas True

By A. J. West - Published 2024

Genres:

Thriller

Comical yet poignant, this thriller of gay romance darkens as it progresses. We start with the arrival in London, in 1715, of handsome young ...Read Review

Miss Austen Investigates

By Jessica Bull - Published 2024

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Jane Austen’s world, with its intelligent heroines, romance and issues of propriety, is blended deliciously with murder mystery motifs, resulting in an ...Read Review

The Cook of Castamar

By Fernando J. Muñez - By Rahul Bery (trans.) - By Tim Gutteridge (trans.) - Published 2024

Genres:

Literary

In this period drama, set in Madrid in 1720, Clara, high-born but without means, obtains a position as assistant cook in the palace of ...Read Review

The Book of Perilous Dishes

By Doina Ruști - By James Christian Brown (trans.) - Published 2024

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First published in Romanian in 2017 and set in Bucharest under Turkish rule at the end of the 18th century, The Book of Perilous ...Read Review