18th Century
Sparks of Bright Matter
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O’Donnell’s debut is a surreal meditation on medieval science in Georgian London, centering an illustrated and highly sought-after book, the Mutus ...Read Review
A Provincial Peer
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1796. To recuperate from the ravages of smallpox that took her naval husband’s life, Caroline Granger returns to the home of her widowed ...Read Review
Blood of the Knights (The Gracchus & Vanderville Mysteries, 3)
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It’s June 1798 when French Lieutenant Vanderville perilously and secretly enters Valletta, the fortified capital of the island of Malta. General Bonaparte, on ...Read Review
The Engraver’s Secret
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This dual-timeline novel has its roots in a feud between the Flemish artist, Peter Paul Rubens, and his principal engraver, Lucas Vorsterman. Canadian ...Read Review
Sheep Are Simply Less Trouble Than Scotsmen
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Set in Scotland of the 1790s the curiously titled Sheep Are Simply Less Trouble Than Scotsmen tells the story of Kittie, a young ...Read Review
How Far We’ve Come
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The seventeen-year-old protagonist of this novel has two names, two identities: she is Orrinda, her slave name for services to Miss Frida up ...Read Review
Saltblood
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What a juicy subject for a historical novel—an infamous female buccaneer during the Golden Age of Piracy and her infamous shipmates, Anne ...Read Review
Queen Charlotte Sophia: A Royal Affair
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1752, Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Germany. Princess Charlotte Sophia’s father reveals a secret about their family history before his sudden death. Their final conversation beings her ...Read Review
The Order of the Furies: 1795 (The Wolf and the Watchman Book 3)
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This is the third in a trilogy set in 18th-century Stockholm, and a fitting finale to a tale that is pervasively dark, gripping, ...Read Review
Forgetting to Remember
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M. J. Rose’s European art mystery begins with a cryptic prologue set in 1790, as Marie Antoinette poses for a highly unusual portrait: ...Read Review
