18th Century
The Unreliable Death of Lady Grange
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The life of Lady Grange (born Rachel Chiesley in 1679), whose husband was James Erskine, Lord Grange and Lord Justice Clerk of Scotland, was ...Read Review
The Fall of the House of Byron: Scandal and Seduction in Georgian England
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The luscious cover and tag-line give the impression that this is going to be an exciting popular-history read that will reveal to us ...Read Review
The Noble Smuggler
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1784. Believing the Lamhurst Gang to be responsible for lawless smuggling in Kent and his father’s death, Jonas Ainsworth, Viscount Langton, decides to ...Read Review
Song of the Nightingale
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Marilyn Pemberton’s unconvincing novel takes on the fascinating and complex subject of the practice of the castration of young boys in order ...Read Review
The King’s Beast: A Mystery of the American Revolution (Bone Rattler)
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The latest installment in Eliot Pattison’s Bone Rattler series, The King’s Beast follows Duncan McCallum, a veteran of the Battle of ...Read Review
Slick Filth: A Story of Robert Walpole and Henry Giffard, to Which is Appended the Farce of The Golden Rump
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The impetus for the 1737 Licensing Act that severely censored the London stage was The Golden Rump, a play said to be so outrageously ...Read Review
The Summer Fields
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Fergusson’s unique historical romance reads like many novels in one: it patches together a creepy gothic story, horror fiction, and entertaining historical ...Read Review
The Littlest Voyageur
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Jean Pierre Petite Le Rouge has a big name for such a little fellow. He’s a red squirrel raised in the watery ...Read Review
In the Shadow of the Sun
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Children/Young AdultHistorical Fantasy
The court of Louis XIV, King of France, is filled with magic, as expected from the young king who is a magicien. Henriette ...Read Review
The Age of Witches
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In 1692 Massachusetts, Bridget Byshop is hanged as a witch and leaves two daughters who pass very different magical traditions to their descendants in ...Read Review