B+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Reads16th-century / 17th-century / cultural history / Historical / historical research / non-fiction / Stuart-England / Tudor-England3 Comments
Offensive language, insolent behavior, slights, brawls, and scandals come alive in Ruth Goodman’s uproarious history. Every age and social strata has its bad eggs, rule-breakers, and nose-thumbers. As acclaimed popular historian and author of How to Be a Victorian Ruth Goodman shows in her madcap chronicle, Elizabethan England was particularly ... more >
B Reviews / Book Reviews / C- Reviews17th-century / adultery / dysfunctional family / family relationships / Historical / London / Marriage-in-Trouble / plague2 Comments
Sometimes money costs too much. The Great Plague has London in its grip. As the summer heat rises, red crosses mark the doors, wealthy citizens flee and only the poor remain to face the march of death. Ambitious and attractive, Bess Bagwell is determined her carpenter husband, Will, should make ... more >
B- Reviews / Book Reviews17th-century / America / England / Historical / Historical fiction / Restoration England / road novels2 Comments
The latest comic novel from Christopher Buckley, a hapless Englishman embarks on a dangerous mission to the New World in pursuit of two judges who helped murder a king. London, 1664. Twenty years after the English revolution, the monarchy has been restored and Charles II sits on the throne. The ... more >
B Reviews / Book Reviews17th-century / doctor hero / dysfunctional family / England / fairy tale retelling / family relationships / France / Historical / Netherlands / painter / War / Military1 Comments
Her life is the inspiration for the world’s most famous story. Lucinda, a penniless English orphan, is abused and exploited as a cinder-sweep by her aristocratic relatives. On receiving her sole inheritance—a pair of glass-beaded slippers—she runs away to France in pursuit of an officer on whom she has a ... more >
Book Reviews / D Reviews17th-century / countess / France / Historical fiction / historical romance26 Comments
Dear Serge and Anne Golon, I have long heard about Angelique, your big romantic bestseller from 1957, when I was a little kid in the ‘80s. Even in the ‘80s, the books from the series always sat moldering on shelves in the used bookstores of my hometown, and they looked ... more >
A Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Reads17th-century / Christmas / courtship / England / Historical1 Comments
This is the heart-warming story of how three of the Kitson children help the wealthy merchant woo their older sister Annaple with a different gift for each of the twelve days of Christmas – with hilarious results! But as the house groans at the seams with partridges, calling birds, swans, ... more >
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