18th Century

Death in Salem

By Eleanor Kuhns - Published 2015

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

This is the fourth in a series featuring 18th century traveling weaver Will Rees. During his travels, Will stops in Salem, Massachusetts to ...Read Review

Glorious Misadventures: Nikolai Rezanov & the Dream of a Russian America

By Owen Matthews - Published 2015

Genres:

Nonfiction

Nikolai Rezanov attached himself to the court of Catherine the Great, giving him an opportunity to participate in what amounted to the colonization ...Read Review

The Apothecary’s Widow

By Diane Scott Lewis - Published 2015

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

The Apothecary’s Widow is set in Truro, Cornwall. It is 1781 and England is at war with the American colonies. With his fiscal ...Read Review

Peg Plunkett: Memoirs of a Whore

By Julie Peakman - Published 2015

Genres:

Nonfiction

In the 18th century, “whore memoirs” became a popular literary phenomenon, when high-class courtesans would pen their autobiographies, full of titillating details of ...Read Review

The Secrets of Casanova

By Greg Michaels - Published 2013

Genres:

AdventureMystery/CrimeThriller

In 1755 Jacques Casanova, exiled from Venice, visits his brother in Paris and comes into possession of a mysterious scroll. Hoping it will provide ...Read Review

Bloodie Bones

By Lucienne Boyce - Published 2015

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Gamekeeper Josh Castle has been murdered, and the culprit has not been found. Dan Foster of the Bow Street Runners goes undercover in ...Read Review

The Flight of Sarah Battle

By Alix Nathan - Published 2015

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Sarah Battle grows up amid the chaos of her father’s coffeehouse in late 18th-century London where, inspired by the French Revolution, political ...Read Review

Messiah: Love, Music and Malice in the Time of Handel

By Sheena Vernon - Published 2014

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

Harry Walsh is a young boy who is pretty hopeless in the classroom and is taken out of Charterhouse School by his exasperated ...Read Review

The French Prize

By James L. Nelson - Published 2015

Genres:

AdventureNautical

A 19-year-old American captain sails his merchant vessel for Barbados in 1797. At that time America was not at war with France, but England ...Read Review

Exquisite Folly

By Jonathan Carriel - Published 2015

Genres:

Adventure

Exquisite Folly, the fourth instalment in Jonathan Carriel’s very entertaining series of adventures set in Colonial America (and its larger world). Featuring ...Read Review