18th Century

The Warlow Experiment

By Alix Nathan - Published 2019

Genres:

Literary

Enlightenment ideas and desire for personal acclaim influence reclusive, wealthy landowner and amateur scientist Herbert Powyss. He plans an experiment. How would complete ...Read Review

A Question of Time

By Steven Lazaroff - Published 2019

Genres:

Time-slip

In Lazaroff’s fast-paced time travel novel, historian Jonathan Lambert disappears from a train to Paris and finds himself transported to 1774, during the ...Read Review

Josephine’s Garden

By Stephanie Parkyn - Published 2019

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This is the second historical fiction novel by New Zealander, Stephanie Parkyn. Her critically acclaimed, debut novel, Into the World, set during the ...Read Review

Never Pleasing to the World: A Man and His Slaves

By Peggy Patterson Garland - Published 2019

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

Spanning the years 1731 to 1804, this debut novel tells the story of Robert Carter III, a Virginian who deserves to be better known. Born ...Read Review

Sinful Seduction

By Jacqueline Seewald - Published 2019

Genres:

Romance

Anne MacIntyre is a schoolmistress in a rural region of New Jersey, a patriot trying to keep her head down as the American ...Read Review

The Founding Fortunes: How the Wealthy Paid for and Profited from America’s Revolution

By Tom Shachtman - Published 2020

Genres:

Nonfiction

Author Shachtman (How the French Saved America) dispels more myths of the Revolutionary and early Federal period in this study of finances and ...Read Review

The Prince’s Women

By Deryn Lake - Published 2019

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

Charles Edward Stuart, aka The Young Pretender, aka Bonnie Prince Charlie, was the eldest grandson of the exiled Catholic King James II. As ...Read Review

The Ship’s Carpenter (Tween Sea and Shore)

By D E Stockman - Published 2019

Genres:

AdventureNautical

In 1742, peace exists between France and England. Young Abraham Robinson, who injured his hand in an accident, is released as a shipwright at ...Read Review

Blood In The Valley

By Jean M. Roberts - Published 2019

Genres:

Saga

Blood in the Valley begins with a young woman marrying a fine man and leaving her parents’ home to live in Cherry Valley, ...Read Review

A Pair of Sharp Eyes

By Kat Armstrong - Published 2019

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Young Coronation Avebury takes the coach from Wiltshire to Bristol to start a new life. Because Coronation is blessed with a keen intelligence ...Read Review