Restoration
An Absent Life: Elizabeth, the “Mad” Duchess of Albemarle, 1654-1734 (Volume 2) (Recollections)
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An Absent Life is a sensitively written, richly illustrated, and meticulously documented biography of the tragic Duchess Elizabeth Cavendish, drawn from original papers ...Read Review
The Tombstone Maker’s Daughter
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This is an ambitious, emotionally freighted novel set in Cornwall in the uneasy years following the Civil War and during the recurring plague ...Read Review
The Pepys Conspiracy
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Most of us probably know of Samuel Pepys, the 17th-century diarist and all-round gossip who gave great social and political insights into the ...Read Review
The Brampton Witch Murders (The Samuel Pepys Mysteries Book 1)
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England, September 1666, and the diarist and naval officer Samuel Pepys has two immediate and serious problems to contend with. Not only has a ...Read Review
The Three Deaths of Justice Godfrey (A John Grey Historical Mystery)
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Fifth in the Lord John Grey series, this novel sees the Essex magistrate and sometime spy continue his adventures navigating the strains and ...Read Review
The Great Phoenix of London
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AdventureChildren/Young AdultHistorical Fantasy
Galvin’s extraordinary novel about the 1666 Great Fire of London, a boy and a phoenix, has all the hallmarks to become a children’...Read Review
The Bedlam Cadaver (A Hunt and Hooke Novel)
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1681, Restoration London. The king’s brother James, a Catholic, is heir to the throne, but there is rumoured to be a ‘black box’ ...Read Review
Plague Thieves
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In 1665 London, Rose lives with her parents and brother Lem in an apartment over the family’s spice shop. She delights in helping ...Read Review
All The Colours You Cannot Name
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London at summer’s end in 1666, its shellshocked population just beginning to emerge from the worst ravages of the bubonic plague. James White ...Read Review
The Lost Queen: The Surprising Life of Catherine of Braganza, Britain’s Forgotten Monarch
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Many people have heard of Charles II’s mistress, Nell Gwynn, and perhaps even of others of his mistresses, but who knows anything ...Read Review
