18th Century
Lafayette in the Somewhat United States
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In the history-plus-humor tradition, Lafayette in the Somewhat United States is another smart offering from Sarah Vowell, author of The Partly Cloudy Patriot. ...Read Review
In Liberty’s Wake
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In Liberty’s Wake, Alexandra Norland’s remarkably accomplished debut novel, takes a familiar theme in American historical fiction – slavery – and moves it ...Read Review
The Devil Take Tomorrow
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Ethan Matlock, the dashing, dangerous hero of Gretchen Jeannette’s The Devil Take Tomorrow, is spy for the rebelling American colonies, navigating the ...Read Review
Hecate’s Moon
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Armand de Delacroix flees his home in Alsace to his father’s run-down estate in North Devon. Having seen his parents killed by ...Read Review
Imperfect Pretence
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Imperfect Pretence is Ann Barker’s eighteenth novel, and she obviously knows the period well, although I was dubious about two women dining ...Read Review
Mask of Duplicity
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In the first of The Jacobite Chronicles, we follow the fortunes and misfortunes of Elizabeth (Beth) Cunningham. Beth’s elder brother, Richard, a ...Read Review
The Sisters of Versailles
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In The Sisters of Versailles, the first of a planned trilogy about the women in the life of King Louis XV, Sally Christie ...Read Review
The Mind of an American Revolutionary
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Jon Foyt’s latest novel, The Mind of an American Revolutionary, is on the surface an ungainly amalgam of historical fiction and biography, ...Read Review
The Mistress of Tall Acre
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As Sophie Menzies waits patiently for her brother to return safely from the American War of Independence, her home is in the process ...Read Review
The Price of a Pearl
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Laura Carroll Butler’s debut novel The Price of a Pearl opens in the England of 1773, when innocent young Rebecca Newland is intended ...Read Review
