18th Century

If the Tide Turns

By Rachel Rueckert - Published 2024

Genres:

Nautical

During a visit to Cape Cod, you would doubtless hear murmurs of Samuel (Black Sam) Bellamy and his winsome beauty, Maria (Mehitable) Brown. ...Read Review

City of Spies

By Elisa Paganelli (illus.) - By Iszi Lawrence - Published 2024

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

1780 New York. The British Army is trying to beat the rebel American colonists into submission and restore King George III’s rightful rule, ...Read Review

The Wind from All Directions

By Ron Thompson - Published 2024

Genres:

In 1792, Captain George Vancouver is ordered by the British Admiralty to continue exploration of the Pacific Northwest. He is also charged with a ...Read Review

A Grave for a Thief (A Company of Rogues, 3)

By Douglas Skelton - Published 2024

Genres:

AdventureMystery/Crime

London, 1716. In the third of Skelton’s Company of Rogues novels, Jonas Flynt, former highwayman who has occasional yearnings for the ‘crack lay’, ...Read Review

To Crown with Liberty

By Karen Ullo - Published 2024

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In 1795, Alix de Morainville Carpentier is haunted by the crumbling world she left behind. A former lady-in-waiting to Marie Antoinette, the ill-fated French ...Read Review

Pelican Girls

By Julia Malye - Published 2024

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Pelican Girls tells a vivid and potent story of women first discarded by society then sent as brides to shore up the floundering ...Read Review

The Painter’s Daughters

By Emily Howes - Published 2024

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

This biographical novel focuses on Margaret and Molly, the daughters of artist Thomas Gainsborough, taking them through their lives from childhood. The narrator, ...Read Review

Star of the Sea: The Cresswell Chronicles

By Katharine Tiernan - Published 2023

Genres:

Saga

Katharine Tiernan tells the story of her ancestors, the Cresswells of Cresswell Hall in the north-east of England, from 1745 to 1807. The family saga ...Read Review

Once Upon a Murder (A Lady Librarian Mystery)

By Samantha Larsen - Published 2024

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

This is the second book in Larsen’s series featuring the same scrappy heroine, Tiffany Woodall, a librarian who works for the Duchess ...Read Review

A Cold Highland Wind (Lady Emily Mysteries, 17)

By Tasha Alexander - Published 2023

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Book seventeen in the series starts with Lady Emily and her husband Colin Hargreaves enjoying a vacation with their three young sons at ...Read Review