Restoration

Samuel Pepys and the Strange Wrecking of the Gloucester: The Shipwreck that Shocked Restoration Britain

By Nigel Pickford - Published 2023

Genres:

NauticalNonfiction

James, Duke of York (later, briefly, James II of England before he was exiled to France in 1688) traveled aboard the Gloucester in 1682 to ...Read Review

Dawnlands

By Philippa Gregory - Published 2022

Genres:

Saga

This third book in the Fairmile series returns us to the heart of the Reekie family via the enjoyable villainess, Livia da Ricci, ...Read Review

The Pudding Lane Plot (Adventures of Thomas Chaloner, 15)

By Susanna Gregory - Published 2022

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

London 1666.  The city is completely unsettled.  The population is recovering from the plague, and rumours are spreading everywhere about a Second Coming when ...Read Review

The Fire Cats of London

By Anna Fargher - Published 2022

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

This is a tale of the Great Fire of London retold from the point of view of a captured wild cat, Asta. Although ...Read Review

The Hemlock Cure

By Joanne Burn - Published 2022

Genres:

The story is centred mostly in the Derbyshire village of Eyam, famous as the place where the residents agreed to quarantine themselves in 1666 ...Read Review

The Plague Letters

By V. L. Valentine - Published 2021

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

The plague is creeping through London, parish by parish. It is the summer of 1665, and those who can are escaping the city. Symon ...Read Review

The Master of Measham Hall

By Anna Abney - Published 2021

Genres:

Literary

1665: Charles II has returned from exile and is now king, but the Civil War still casts its long, dark shadow, intensified by the ...Read Review

The Cry of the Hangman (A Lucy Campion Mystery, 6)

By Susanna Calkins - Published 2021

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

This sixth Lucy Campion mystery is set in 1667 London, a time of rebuilding after the devastation of the Great Fire. The narrative delves ...Read Review

The Sign of the Gallows (A Lucy Campion Mystery 5)

By Susanna Calkins - Published 2021

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

London, 1667. Lucy Campion is traveling to market when she’s almost run over by two men with a handcart. Subsequently, she discovers a ...Read Review

The Lost Jewels

By Kirsty Manning - Published 2020

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Jewelry historian Kate Kirby is asked to research and report on Cheapside Jewels, a bundle of precious gems that were unearthed after being ...Read Review

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