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