Book reviews & excerpts from exceptional books set mainly in the 18th Century.
18th Century
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The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition, First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
by Hampton Sides
Hardcover: Apr 2024
Paperback: May 2025
From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides, an epic account of the most momentous voyage of the Age of Exploration, which culminated in Captain James Cook's death in Hawaii, and left a complex and controversial legacy still debated to this ...
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Happy Land
by Dolen Perkins-Valdez
Hardcover: Apr 2025
A woman learns the incredible story of a real-life American Kingdom—and her family's ties to it—in this enthralling novel from the New York Times bestselling, NAACP Image Award-winning author of Take My Hand.
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The Frozen River: A Novel
by Ariel Lawhon
Hardcover: Dec 2023
Paperback: Nov 2024
From the New York Times bestselling author of I Was Anastasia and Code Name Hélène comes a gripping historical mystery inspired by the life and diary of Martha Ballard, a renowned 18th-century midwife who investigates a shocking murder that...
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Beyond the Door of No Return: A Novel
by David Diop
Hardcover: Sep 2023
Paperback: Sep 2024
The hotly anticipated new novel by David Diop, winner of the International Booker Prize.
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Loot: A Novel
by Tania James
Hardcover: Jun 2023
Paperback: Jun 2024
A spellbinding historical novel set in the eighteenth century: a hero's quest, a love story, the story of a young artist coming of age, and an exuberant heist adventure that traces the bloody legacy of colonialism across two continents and fifty ...
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Liberty Equality Fashion: The Women Who Styled the French Revolution
by Anne Higonnet
Hardcover: Apr 2024
Three women led a fashion revolution and turned themselves into international style celebrities.
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The Great Passion
by James Runcie
Hardcover: Mar 2022
Paperback: Feb 2023
From acclaimed bestselling author James Runcie, a meditation on grief and music, told through the story of Bach's writing of the St. Matthew Passion.
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Antoinette's Sister
by Diana Giovinazzo
Hardcover: Jan 2022
Paperback: Nov 2022
As Marie Antoinette took her last breath as Queen of France in Paris, another formidable monarch - Antoinette's dearly beloved sister, Charlotte - was hundreds of miles away, in Naples, fighting desperately to secure her release from the ...
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In the Shadow of the Empress: The Defiant Lives of Maria Theresa, Mother of Marie Antoinette, and Her Daughters
by Nancy Goldstone
Hardcover: Sep 2021
Paperback: Sep 2022
The vibrant, sprawling saga of Empress Maria Theresa - one of the most renowned women rulers in history - and three of her extraordinary daughters, including Marie Antoinette, the doomed queen of France.
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Love and Fury: A Novel of Mary Wollstonecraft
by Samantha Silva
Hardcover: May 2021
Paperback: May 2022
From the acclaimed author of Mr. Dickens and His Carol, a richly-imagined reckoning with the life of another cherished literary legend: Mary Wollstonecraft – arguably the world's first feminist.
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The Lost Apothecary: A Novel
by Sarah Penner
Hardcover: Mar 2021
Paperback: Feb 2022
A forgotten history. A secret network of women. A legacy of poison and revenge. Welcome to The Lost Apothecary.
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Miss Austen
by Gill Hornby
Hardcover: Apr 2020
Paperback: Mar 2021
For fans of Jo Baker's Longbourn, a witty, poignant novel about Cassandra Austen and her famous sister, Jane.
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