18th Century
Sins of the Empress
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“All that I have ever done, I have done for love.” The opening line says it all: Paula Paul’s novel of the ...Read Review
A Tainted Dawn: The Great War 1792-1815, Book 1
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The beginning of an intended series spanning the Georgian/Regency period (or, si vous préférez, the Revolutionary/Napoleonic), A Tainted Dawn ...Read Review
A Ship of War
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The Terror is at its height. Charles Hayden, captain of HMS Themis, is on the point of setting sail for Le Havre to ...Read Review
Storks in a Blue Sky
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The novel begins in a rainy 18th-century North Devon, England. It is a story of many things, which are wound and interlinked beautifully ...Read Review
The First Apostle
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The First Apostle is a fictionalized biography of Camille Desmoulins. He was the first to envision France as a Republic and to be ...Read Review
Hodburn Wood
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Hodburn Wood’s lead character is Hillary Belsingham, the owner of an estate in northeast England, who is returning in 1798 from self-imposed exile ...Read Review
William and Lucy
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This novel imagines the love affair between William Wordsworth and his muse Lucy Sims as the inspiration for his poem “She Dwelt Among ...Read Review
The Jacobites’ Apprentice
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It can be difficult making an editor’s choice of a book that is published by my own UK Independent Publisher – but the ...Read Review
Under the Same Sky
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Maggie and her sisters are left to fend for themselves in colonial South Carolina after their brutish father dies in a freak accident. ...Read Review
A Simple Murder
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Maine, 1796, a Shaker settlement. The Shakers are a fascinating movement; their lifestyle and worldview could make for an absorbing historical novel. Sadly, this ...Read Review
