18th Century

The Almanack

By Martine Bailey - Published 2019

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Saturated with beautiful images of the natural world in mid-18th century rural England, Bailey’s third mystery evokes a time when people ...Read Review

Goya: The Terrible Sublime: A Graphic Novel

By El Torres - By Fran Galán (illus.) - Published 2019

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

The work of artist Francisco de Goya (1746-1828) runs the gamut from sedate portraits of the Spanish royal family to pornographic nudes to ...Read Review

John Law: A Scottish Adventurer of the Eighteenth Century

By James Buchan - Published 2018

Genres:

Nonfiction

James Buchan has written an erudite and highly readable life of John Law, the son of a master goldsmith in Edinburgh. He moved ...Read Review

The Blue

By Nancy Bilyeau (author) - Published 2018

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Genevieve Planché, granddaughter of French Huguenots, desperately wants to escape her stifling existence in Spitalfields to be a “history painter” in the fashion ...Read Review

Endeavour: The Ship and the Attitude that Changed the World

By Peter Moore (author) - Published 2018

Genres:

NauticalNonfiction

Ranked among ships of historic note—Drake’s Golden Hind, Bligh’s Bounty, Franklin’s Erebus, Titanic—is the Endeavour, in which Lieutenant ...Read Review

The King and the Catholics: England, Ireland, and the Fight for Religious Freedom, 1780-1829

By Antonia Fraser - Published 2018

Genres:

Nonfiction

In her latest historical non-fiction work, Antonia Fraser brilliantly brings attention to the struggles for emancipation and full citizenship by English and Irish ...Read Review

Dark Entry

By John B. Kachuba - Published 2018

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Dark Entry is told in both the present and the 18th century and based loosely on New England Native American folklore and the ...Read Review

Seduced by a Scot (The Highland Grooms Book 6)

By Julia London - Published 2018

Genres:

Romance

In this sixth installment of the Highland Grooms series, the taciturn and usually tactful Nichol Bain meets his match in Maura Darby, an ...Read Review

The Wolf and the Watchman

By Niklas Natt och Dag - Published 2019

Genres:

Mystery/CrimeThriller

The year is 1793. In Stockholm, Sweden, a body is discovered in Larder Lake. Cecil Winge, a former prosecuting attorney suffering from consumption and ...Read Review

America’s Forgotten Founding Father: A Novel Based on the Life of Filippo Mazzei

By Rosanne Welch - Published 2018

Genres:

Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult

“I have never wished anyone to ask, ‘Why is Mazzei here?’ but rather, ‘Why is Mazzei not here?’” The quote attributed to Filippo ...Read Review