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The Prince’s Women
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Charles Edward Stuart, aka The Young Pretender, aka Bonnie Prince Charlie, was the eldest grandson of the exiled Catholic King James II. As ...Read Review
The Ship’s Carpenter (Tween Sea and Shore)
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In 1742, peace exists between France and England. Young Abraham Robinson, who injured his hand in an accident, is released as a shipwright at ...Read Review
A Pair of Sharp Eyes
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Young Coronation Avebury takes the coach from Wiltshire to Bristol to start a new life. Because Coronation is blessed with a keen intelligence ...Read Review
Heathcliff: The Lost Years
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In Emily Brontë’s classic novel, speculation swirls around what its hero did in his three years away from Wuthering Heights, and how ...Read Review
First and Before All Things
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This is the story of the Norwich Bethel, a sanctuary for “lunaticks” founded in 1713 by the enlightened and compassionate Mary Chapman, widow of ...Read Review
The Corpse Played Dead
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Lizzie Hardwicke is a brilliant, educated, and kind sex worker. Seated in a theater with her colleagues, she learns that she is also ...Read Review
The West Indian
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Lester’s haunting novel is, in part, the birth story of two infamous Brontë characters: the boy who becomes Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights ...Read Review
The Man Who Discovered Antarctica: Edward Bransfield Explained – The First Man to Find and Chart the Antarctic Mainland
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Sheila Bransfield researched the life of Edward Bransfield, who commanded the first ship to sight the Antarctic continent in 1819, in the mistaken belief ...Read Review
Mary Toft; or, The Rabbit Queen: A Novel
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Popular 18th-century medical theory espouses the idea that a woman’s mind – what she sees and what her thoughts dwell upon – can have ...Read Review
The Wisdom of Bones
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London, 1879. Percival Unusual George is a showman. He leads a troupe of nine performing Remarkables. He is driven by a dream of fame ...Read Review