18th Century
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
Pachacuti: World Overturned
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It has been three centuries since Columbus arrived in the New World. Spaniards and Jesuits who followed in his wake, searching for gold ...Read Review
The Scrivener
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The Scrivener is the third book in Robin Blake’s fantastic mystery series featuring Preston Coroner Titus Cragg and his good friend, Dr ...Read Review
The Pretender’s Lady
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This book spans the second half of the 18th century, beginning in the 1740s, just as Bonnie Prince Charlie arrives in Scotland for ...Read Review
Trapped by Scandal
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France and England, 1794-1795. Lady Hermione Fanshawe and William Ducasse, Viscount St. Aubery, meet in jail and put themselves in grave danger as ...Read Review
The Last Confession of Thomas Hawkins
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The previous novel featuring Thomas Hawkins was The Devil in the Marshalsea, one of my books of the year in 2014. I could not ...Read Review
The Exchange of Princesses
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Chantal Thomas, the winner of the 2002 Prix Femina for Farewell, My Queen, has here written another novel rooted in fact but reading almost ...Read Review
Dearest Rogue
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Lady Phoebe Batten wants to explore life, even if she falls, but her brother cages her like a bird because she’s blind. ...Read Review
The Mark on Eve
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Historical FantasyMystery/Crime
This novel begins during a storm off Cape Cod in 1717, when the imminent foundering of a ship captained by her lover compels Eve ...Read Review
