Charlotte Wightwick
The Beauty and the Terror: An Alternative History of the Italian Renaissance
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Catherine Fletcher opens up the ‘Pandora’s Box’ of 16th-century Italy. This era is known most obviously for the flowering of individual artistic ...Read Review
Charlotte
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Charlotte tells the story of Charlotte Lucas, Lizzy Bennet’s plain, unromantic friend from Pride and Prejudice. She marries for the sake of ...Read Review
Kitty Peck and the Parliament of Shadows (Kitty Peck 4)
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This latest instalment of Kate Griffin’s series takes us once again into the world of the Victorian East End. At the end ...Read Review
The Irish Princess
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The author brings medieval Ireland alive with her trademark mix of engaging characters, high politics, and romance. As the daughter of an Irish ...Read Review
Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind
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Dominion is a big book. Not only in length – although topping 500 pages, this shouldn’t be discounted – but in the sheer amount of ...Read Review
A Tapestry of Treason
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Anne O’Brien’s books seek to give voice to the forgotten women of history, and in A Tapestry of Treason she does ...Read Review
The Phoenix of Florence
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The author returns to Renaissance Italy with The Phoenix of Florence. Onorio Celavini, a commander in the Medici’s feared policy force, investigates ...Read Review
The Familiars
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The Familiars is set in 17th-century Lancashire. It tells the story of the trial of the Pendle witches from the point of view ...Read Review
The Redeemed: The West Country Trilogy
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The Redeemed follows the lives of two main characters during and after World War I. Leo Sercombe starts the book as a ship’...Read Review
Devices and Desires: Bess of Hardwick and the Building of Elizabethan England
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Devices and Desires explores the life of Bess of Hardwick and of her great building projects, especially the still-extant Hardwick Hall. It is ...Read Review