Time period: 18th century

Simon Forty celebrates the major inventions and buildings of the period 1700-1860: a period when science and technology began to establish its role in modern life.

Dennis Severs bought a run-down silk-weaver's house in Spitalfields and transformed it into a time capsule that transports visitors back to the 18th century. This book offers a tour of the house.

Collingwood went to sea as a 13-year-old and died at sea aged 62 - he literally gave his life to the Navy. Based on original log books and diaries, this biography details his life story, from the American War of Independence to the victory over Napoleon's navy.

Since being illegally press-ganged into joining King George's Navy, John Pearce has overcome numerous adversaries, which have secured him a position of command on board HMS Faron. Having successfully overcome the French at the Siege of Toulon, Pearce and his comrades, the Pelicans, now face the o...

Poppy's wedding to the Duke of Fletcher was the most romantic one she had ever seen. However, four years on, the spark of their love affair has burned out. Fortunately, Poppy has a friend in Jemma, the Duchess of Beaumont, who is still in the throes of a chess game that could cost her her marriag...

I would like to make myself the heroine of this story and my character to be noble - an innocent victim led astray. But alas sir, I would be lying.

The death of Sir Edward Crick has unleashed a torrent of gossip through the seedy taverns and elegant ballrooms of Oxfordshire. No one mourns the dissolute young man - except his sister, the beautiful Lady Lydia Farrell. When her husband comes under suspicion of murder, she seeks expert help from...

The death of Sir Edward Crick has unleashed a torrent of gossip through the seedy taverns and elegant ballrooms of Oxfordshire. No one mourns the dissolute young man except his sister, the beautiful Lady Lydia Farrell. When her husband comes under suspicion of murder, she seeks expert help from D...

London, 1786. Bookseller, John Holdsworth has nothing to lose. His wife and infant son are dead. His business is in ruins. Known to many for his aggressively sceptical views about ghosts, the grieving man is approached by a wealthy widow and offered a handsome reward to travel to Cambridge and cu...

Harriet Westerman waits for news of her husband, gravely injured at sea. The city is seething with rumour and conspiracy, and as London's high society enjoys its privileges, spies pass its secrets to the French. After a body is dragged out of the Thames, reclusive anatomist Gabriel Crowther is pe...

Cornwall, towards the end of the 18th century. Ross Poldark sits for the borough of Truro as Member of Parliment - his time divided between London and Cornwall, his heart divided about his wife, Demelza. His old feud with George Warleggan still flares - as does the illicit love between Morwenna a...

Jersey fishing captain, Jean Cotterell is rescued by a French frigate - The Hortense - off the Grand Banks of Nova Scotia in May 1794. Life on The Hortense is like France under the Terror; chaotic, ungovernable, obsessed with savage, radical political theories. She is intercepted by two British f...

In this book Stella Tillyard gives a fascinating insight into 18th century aristocratic life through the lives of the four Lennox sisters, the great grandchildren of Charles II, whose lives spanned the period 1740-1832.

In this book Stella Tillyard gives a fascinating insight into 18th century aristocratic life through the lives of the four Lennox sisters, the great grandchildren of Charles II, whose lives spanned the period 1740-1832. This is a book for everyone.

The Royal Navy armed and fitted out thousands of wooden warships between 1600 and 1815, and virtually every item or process was the subject of alteration or improvement. This book sets out the precise nature of these developments with exact information on sizes and scantlings.

This novel is set in Venice in the mid-18th century, when the city had lost its political and financial primacy but had become Europe's pleasure capital, famous for its gambling dens, its courtesans, its hectic carnival, its music, art and theatre - and the most highly organised secret service in...

This new book concentrates on the Marquis de Sade's loyal wife and his vindictive mother-in-law, and their complex relationship with the rakish Marquis as they dedicated themselves to protecting him and curbing him.

It is the eve of the French Revolution and England awaits with trepidation the news from the Continent that will propel her into war again. But Lieutenant James Hayter's orders from the Admiralty do not at first involve the sea. He must go inland to seek out Captain William Rennie, who has disapp...