Georgian
The Queen’s Embroiderer: A True Story of Paris, Lovers, Swindlers, and the First Stock Market Crisis
What kind of man secures a royal decree to lock up his pregnant daughter and ship her to the colonies?…
The Passage to India
1831, and the Reform Act extending the franchise, making its way through Parliament, is not universally popular. In the great…
Ill Will: The Untold Story of Heathcliff
What happened to Heathcliff after he left Wuthering Heights in Emily Brontë’s novel, only to return three years later, a…
The Gallows Pole
Editors' choice
George III notwithstanding, there’s only one king in West Yorkshire: “King” David Hartley, leader of a local gang of “coiners.”…
The Elephant Keeper’s Daughter
In 1803, a daughter, Phera, is born to the elephant keeper of the independent mountainous Sinhalese Kingdom of Kanda. Desirous…
Keturah
England, 1772. Shortly after news arrives of their father’s death, the Banning sisters also learn of his mounting debts. Determined…
The Electrical Venus
At some time in the 18th century (annoyingly, the book gives no more specific clue), Mim is a mixed-race teenage…
Wrecker
The action of this book takes place “ten years after the French wars or thereabouts”. It is set in Cornwall…
The Bride Takes a Groom
Third in the Penhallow Dynasty series, Berne’s The Bride Takes a Groom is a romance set in the northeast of…
Where the World Ends
Editors' choice
Based on a real event, this is a story that sings to the soul. It belongs—in shoals—in every school and…
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