18th Century
Liberty’s Exiles
The American Loyalists were not the snobbish grandees of legend, but a diverse group with different motives for loyalty to…
London’s Sinful Secret: The Bawdy History and Very Public Passions of London’s Georgian Age
Architectural historian Dan Cruickshank’s newest book is a lengthy but fascinating examination of a not-so-secret aspect of Georgian London: the…
Never a Gentleman
Readers first met Grace Fairchild, worthy friend and daughter of a general in the Napoleonic Wars, who stalwartly accompanied her…
Under Siege
Low Countries, summer 1708. Captain Daniel Rawson, who rose from the ranks to the Duke of Marlborough’s staff, is happy…
The Pirate’s Bastard
This short mid-18th century novel is awash in seafaring legal and piratical, secrets, courtship, blackmail and colonial history of North…
The Ghost of Crutchfield Hall
Editors' choice
When 12-year-old Florence boards the horse-drawn coach in London that will take her from the orphanage where she’s spent the…
The Forbidden Rose
Joanna Bourne’s knowledge of the characters and events of the French Revolution are well-grounded, making The Forbidden Rose nicely authentic.…
Pimpernelles: The Traitor’s Smile (Book 2)
1793. The French king has been guillotined and the Reign of Terror is just beginning. Eugénie de Boncoeur and the…
Inventing George Washington
George Washington, hailed by a modern biographer as “indispensible,” was once a man, but he has become a kind of…
Eclipse
This is the story of perhaps the greatest racehorse of all time, unbeaten throughout his career and so feared by…
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