18th Century

The Unreliable Death of Lady Grange

By Sue Lawrence - Published 2020

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

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

By EMILY. BRAND - Published 2020

Genres:

Nonfiction

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

By Sian Ann Bessey - Published 2020

Genres:

Inspirational Romance

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

By Marilyn - By Pemberton - Published 2019

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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)

By Eliot Pattison - Published 2020

Genres:

Mystery/CrimeThriller

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

By Erato - Published 2020

Genres:

Literary

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

By LP Fergusson - Published 2020

Genres:

Romance

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

By Cheryl Pilgrim (illus.) - By Margi Preus - Published 2020

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

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

By EM Castellan - Published 2020

Genres:

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

By Louisa Morgan - Published 2020

Genres:

Historical Fantasy

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