18th Century

The Traitor of Treasure Island

By John Drake - Published 2019

Genres:

AdventureNautical

Most of us carry with us from our adolescence a familiarity with Treasure Island, its fast-moving plot, its thrilling locations and above all, ...Read Review

Ribbons of Scarlet: A Novel of the French Revolution’s Women

By E. Knight - By Heather Webb - By Kate Quinn - By Laura Kamoie - By Sophie Perinot - By Stephanie Dray - Published 2019

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

Women are central in our visual imagination of the French Revolution – from the doomed Queen Marie Antoinette to Charlotte Corday, who stabbed the ...Read Review

A Close Run Thing

By David Donachie - Published 2019

Genres:

AdventureMilitaryNautical

This, the fifteenth of the John Pearce novels, is set in 1796 with Lieutenant Pearce and his companion Samuel Oliphant trying to get back ...Read Review

Black Wings: A Novel of the French Revolution

By Sophie Masson - Published 2018

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

1798: the Vendee is a peaceful French departement where four young friends enjoy each other’s company. Loyal, intelligent Jacques Verdun, aristocratic painter Edmond ...Read Review

The Distant Ocean

By Philip K. Allan - Published 2019

Genres:

AdventureMilitaryNautical

After the Battle of the Nile in 1798, Captain Alexander Clay of the frigate Titan was ordered to join a small fleet and sail ...Read Review

The Highland Earl (Lords of the Highlands)

By Amy Jarecki - Published 2019

Genres:

Romance

This Scottish romance takes place during the reign of Queen Anne, in 1713. The Highland Earl is John Erskine, Earl of Mar, a real ...Read Review

The Love for Three Oranges: A John Singer Sargent/Violet Paget Mystery

By Mary F. Burns - Published 2019

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Italy, 1879. John Singer Sargent mysteriously summons his good friend Violet Paget from Florence to Venice. Sargent’s note gives scant detail, but when ...Read Review

Between Two Shores

By Jocelyn Green - Published 2019

Genres:

InspirationalRomance

Catherine Stands-Apart, the half-Mohawk daughter of a selfish, drunken French trapper, must navigate between empires vying for control of North America in the ...Read Review

The Cornish Lady (Cornish Saga)

By Nicola Pryce - Published 2019

Genres:

Saga

This novel is well-written in the first person, with interesting characters and an intricate plot which is resolved happily – the villains are caught ...Read Review

The Crossing at Cypress Creek (A Natchez Trace Novel)

By Pam Hillman - Published 2019

Genres:

InspirationalRomance

In 1790, living along the Mississippi River near the tiny but dangerous settlement of Cypress Creek, Alanah Adams is neither a bedraggled and crazy ...Read Review