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Jane Austen's Bookshelf: A Rare Book Collector's Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a Legend by Rebecca Romney. Published by...

Confinement: The Hidden History of Maternal Bodies in Nineteenth-Century Britain by Jessica Cox is a fascinating look at topics typically...

Veronica and Stoker discover that not all fairy tales have happy endings, and some end in murder, in this latest historical mystery from...

Nikki Payne has a follow-up to Pride and Protest with a modern adaptation of Sense and Sensibility. I am SO glad I was asked to read an...

In this first in a new series about a secret network of governesses who spy on the Victorian ton, a governess running away from her past...

Did the people in Georgian Britain live up to their stereotypes when it came to sexual behavior? Sex and Sexuality in Georgian Britain...

In 1872 London, Musa Bartham has been publishing steamy poetry under a pen name to support her family. But when Musa’s sister is offered...

Bookshop Cinderella Scandal at the Savoy #1 by Laura Lee Guhrke available June 20, 2023 Evie Harlow runs a quaint bookshop in 1890s...

Murder in Postscript (Lady of Letters #1) by Mary Winters. March 28, 2023 by Berkley When one of her readers asks for advice following a...

The suspenseful sequel to The Murder of Mr. Wickham, which sees Jonathan Darcy and Juliet Tilney reunited, and with another mystery to...

I research the Georgian era and have even tackled a few 19th century recipes, so the name Hannah Glasse came up often. Imagine my...

Happy publication day to A SINISTER REVENGE (Berkley Hardcover; March 7, 2023) by Deanna Raybourn. I loved this series and I’m eager to...

THE NEIGHBOR FAVOR brings together Black representation, the girl-next-door trope, friends-to-lovers, and the book publishing world to...

Last month, I finished The Call of the Wrens and it turned out to be one of my favorite reads of the year. Out now from Harper Muse by...

Better Than Fiction by Alexa Martin November 8th 2022 by Berkley Books Book Review: Book hater Drew Young inherited her grandma’s...

Pride and Protest by Nikki Payne. Berkley. November 15, 2022 Need something to read? What about Pride and Prejudice with diverse...

Have you heard of Jane and Anna Maria Porter? Well, if you're a fan of nineteenth century fiction, you should. The Porters—contemporaries...

Unnatural Creatures: A Novel of the Frankenstein Women by Kris Waldherr from Muse Publications October 4, 2022 Do you like to read spooky...

The Duke's Rules of Engagement by Jennifer Haymore. September 27, 2022 by Entangled In 1817, Joanna Porter is an outspoken and lively...

Andrea Penrose Kensington Books September 27, 2022 I love this series. Wrexford and Sloan are auto-reads for me; I don’t even have to...