Annals of the Parish: or The Chronicle of Dalmailing During the Ministry of the Rev. Micah Balwhidder by John Galt. Published in 1821, this is a fictional account of the trials and joys of the life of Reverend Balwhidder of Dalmailing, Scotland in the latter half of the eighteenth century.

Mad Mary Lamb: Lunacy and Murder in Literary London by Susan Tyler Hitchcock. Mary Lamb, with her brother, the essayist Charles Lamb, collaborated on the famous Tales from Shakespeare. She also murdered her mother with a kitchen knife in a fit of madness, possibly a manic phase of bipolar mental illness.

Defining the World: The Extraordinary Story of Dr Johnson’s Dictionary by Henry Hitchings.

Hallelujah by J.S. Featherstone. Hallelujah is the fictionalized story of one of the greatest events in musical history, the creation in 1741 of George Frederic Handel’s masterpiece, Messiah.

The Master of Ballantrae by Robert Louis Stevenson. Set in Scotland during the Jacobite Revolution of 1745 and its aftermath.

The Mississippi Bubble by Thomas B. Costain. A land confidence scheme set in France and colonial America.

A Daughter Of The Seine: The Life Of Madame Roland by Jeanette Eaton. Newbery honor book.

Meggy MacIntosh: A Highland Girl in the Carolina Colony by Elizabeth Gray Vining.

The Poet and the Vampyre: The Curse of Byron and the Birth of Literature’s Greatest Monsters by Andrew Stott.

Scaramouche by Rafael Sabatini. French revolution fiction.

Seeing Beauty and Saying Beautifully: The Power of Poetic Effort in the Work of George Herbert, George Whitefield, and C. S. Lewis by John Piper.

George Whitefield: America’s Spiritual Founding Father by Thomas S. Kidd.