Marilyn Sherlock
A Sea of Gold: Thomas Kydd 21
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Set in 1809, this is the latest in the Thomas Kydd series, with Thomas as the captain of the frigate, HMS Tyger. Wellesley, the ...Read Review
Blackberry and Wild Rose
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This debut novel by Sonia Velton is set in Spitalfields, London, in the late 18th century when the Huguenots had brought the silk ...Read Review
Sarah’s Story: An emotional family saga that you won’t be able to put down (The Mill Valley Girls)
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This is a heart-warming story of a young girl, set in the Manchester area. Sarah meets Joe Bancroft when she is in her ...Read Review
Intrigue in Covent Garden (Adventures of Thomas Chaloner)
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We are in the year 1665. Plague is still haunting London, and King Charles I, with all his court, plus anyone else rich enough ...Read Review
The Evacuee Summer
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In 1940 many children were sent away from London to escape the German bombing, and Katie King’s Evacuee series reflects this. This book ...Read Review
All the Lives We Never Lived
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Anuradha Roy is rated as one of India’s greatest living writers, and if this book is any guide I can see why. ...Read Review
The Magpie Tree
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1844 on Bodmin Moor. Anna Drake wants to set up her own detective agency at a time when this service was very new and ...Read Review
Wrecker
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The action of this book takes place “ten years after the French wars or thereabouts”. It is set in Cornwall at a time ...Read Review
The Baltic Prize
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The Baltic Prize takes us to Scandinavia at the beginning of the 19th century. The Anglo-Russian War, September 1807–1812, took place after Russia signed ...Read Review
Jane Seymour: The Haunted Queen
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Set in Tudor England, this novel is about the third Queen to Henry VIII. Katherine of Aragon is divorced for failing to provide ...Read Review