Results for General Fiction + 18th Century, set in UK (Britain) & Ireland

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  • Birdcage Walk
    Birdcage Walk
    Helen Dunmore
    Paperback: 10/16/2018
     
    Weaving a deeply personal and moving story with a historical moment of critical and complex importance, ...
  • The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock
    The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock
    Imogen Hermes Gowar
    Hardcover: 09/11/2018
     
    In 1780s London, a prosperous merchant finds his quiet life upended when he unexpectedly receives a most ...
  • Confessions of the Fox
    Confessions of the Fox
    Jordy Rosenberg
    Hardcover: 06/26/2018
     
    A love story set in the eighteenth-century London of notorious thieves and queer subcultures, this genre-...
  • The Blind Astronomer's Daughter
    The Blind Astronomer's Daughter
    John Pipkin
    Paperback: 09/05/2017
     
    A novel of the obsessions of the age: scientific inquiry, geographic discovery, political reformation, but ...
  • The Last Confession of Thomas Hawkins
    The Last Confession of Thomas Hawkins
    Antonia Hodgson
    Paperback: 03/21/2017
     
    In a new Georgian–era mystery by Antonia Hodgson, the follow-up to The Devil in the Marshalsea, Tom ...
  • The Lost Child
    The Lost Child
    Caryl Phillips
    Paperback: 06/07/2016
     
    Caryl Phillips reimagines Emily Bronte's melodramatic "Wuthering Heights", weaving the past and the present ...
  • The Fair Fight
    The Fair Fight
    Anna Freeman
    Paperback: 04/12/2016
     
    The Crimson Petal and the White meets Fight Club: A page-turning novel set in the world of female pugilists ...

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