Restoration
Conceit
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The Great Fire of London is the framing device for Mary Novik’s insightful portrait of famous and obscure 17th-century Londoners. This novel ...Read Review
The Merry Monarch’s Wife
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The Merry Monarch’s Wife is the re-release of Jean Plaidy’s 1991 biographical novel (originally titled The Pleasures of Love) about Catherine of ...Read Review
Wife to Charles ll
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In this reissue of a novel first published in 1965, author Lewis gamely attempts to relate the story of Portuguese princess Catherine of Braganza, ...Read Review
Royal Harlot: A Novel of the Countess of Castlemaine and King Charles II
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Having previously provided a fictional memoir of Sarah, first Duchess of Marlborough (Duchess, an Editors’ Choice), Scott brings to vivid life another of ...Read Review
Lady Merry’s Dashing Champion
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A case of mistaken identity leads Meriel St. Thomas into a world of courtly intrigue and sensual delights she never thought possible. Orphaned ...Read Review
Devil Water
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Through a youthful misalliance, Charles Radcliffe, brother to the Earl of Derwentwater, is forced to marry a pregnant Northumbrian lass. Ashamed of the ...Read Review
Blood on the Strand
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Spring 1663, the eve of the third year of the Restoration, but all is not well in the capital city. Wealthy merchant Matthew Webb ...Read Review
The Perfect Royal Mistress
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The subject of Diane Haeger’s latest historical novel is “pretty, witty” Nell Gwynn, the low-born actress who became a mistress of King ...Read Review
The Remarkable Life and Times of Eliza Rose
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London, 1670. In a tremendous opening scene, 15-year-old Eliza, starving and desperate, is thrown into the notorious Clink Prison. From then on, the pace ...Read Review
Lady Katherne’s Wild Ride
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At the start of Westin’s lively Restoration romp, Lady Katherne Lindsay suffers the indignities common to a poor and dependent relation. One ...Read Review
