Charlotte Wightwick
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
Blood’s Revolution (Holcroft Blood 2)
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Set in the turbulent years of the 1680s, Blood’s Revolution follows Holcroft Blood, a brilliant gunnery officer in His Majesty’s Ordnance, ...Read Review
The Monastery Murders (A Stanton and Barling Mystery)
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The Monastery Murders is the second of E.M. Powell’s mysteries set in the late 12th century and featuring the crime-fighting duo ...Read Review
The Tudor Crown
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Set in the turbulent years of the 1470s and 1480s, The Tudor Crown tells of the fight for the crown which led to ...Read Review