19th Century
The Book of Night Women
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The Book of Night Women is a beautifully written, sweeping tale of Jamaican slavery set in the early 19th century.…
Ambush at Mustang Canyon
Free Anderson, a former slave, and Parks Scott are partners in a business selling tamed mustangs to the Army in…
Remittance Man
Set in Melbourne in 1885, this novel centres on Maude Hanford, “short, not quite pretty” and seeming to be as…
Mr. and Mrs. Fitzwilliam Darcy: Two Shall Become One
Mr. & Mrs. Fitzwilliam Darcy depicts the first months of matrimony of the famous couple from Pride and Prejudice. The…
The Naked Baron
When Grace Belmont went to London for her season accompanied by her aunt, Lady Oxbury, it was for one reason…
Rifling Paradise
Charles Redbourne, a minor middle-aged English landholder, is forced by a series of unsavory circumstances to flee to Australia in…
Woodsburner
In this novel based on a true story, Henry David Thoreau accidentally sets fire to three hundred acres of woods…
The Alchemy of Murder
Set in Paris during the Exposition of 1889, this historical crime novel takes the well-known American journalist Nellie Bly as…
The Rose of Sebastopol
In The Rose of Sebastopol the horrors of the Crimean War are described by a most unlikely narrator—Mariella Lingwood, a…
Galway Bay
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Ireland, 1848: Blight has killed the potato crop for the third time in four years, there’s no work or food,…
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