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The Intoxicating Mr Lavelle
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London 1763, and brothers Edgar and Benjamin Bowen are to embark upon The Grand Tour to mainland Europe. They are close in age, around ...Read Review
The Silver Collar
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The Silver Collar is the fourth in Antonia Hodgson’s series about Thomas Hawkins and Kitty Sparks. I had read the first – The ...Read Review
Sophia – Mother of Kings: The Finest Queen Britain Never Had
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Catherine Curzon is a royal historian who has written several books on Georgian royalty and its often-scandalous courts. Her latest foray into this ...Read Review
The Paris Affair (A Theresa Schurman Mystery)
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The year is 1783, and Viennese violinist Theresa Schurman has been asked to go to Paris to help discover who is writing and printing ...Read Review
A Revolution of Hearts
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Aristocrat Mademoiselle Dacia de Prideaux faces the challenge of her life when in April 1789, her political activist brother is murdered. She is accused ...Read Review
The Golden Maid (The Smuggler’s Daughters)
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This book takes us back to the Napoleonic Wars of the 18th century together with the coastal trades of smuggling, particularly in Kent ...Read Review
Breaking Barriers: A Novel Based on the Life of Laura Bassi
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Laura Bassi (1711-1778) broke new ground in many ways. She was the second woman in Europe to earn a doctorate in philosophy, the ...Read Review
The Candlelit Menagerie
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London, late 18th century. The roar of a lion calls to her, so Lillian follows the sound to a menagerie full of exquisite ...Read Review
Magic Lessons
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Hoffman previously revisited the beloved world and characters she created for the blockbuster hit Practical Magic when she gave readers the life stories ...Read Review
Maria II
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Not many English-speaking readers will have heard of Dona Maria II, Queen of Portugal – and to add her full title “Portugal and the ...Read Review