widget55 Posted June 18, 2016 Share Posted June 18, 2016 Hi all, I'm looking for a book that is set around the late 1700's in Britain. I know there's lots of books I could read that were actually written around that time but I'm looking for a modern one. Any suggestions? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Little Pixie Posted June 19, 2016 Share Posted June 19, 2016 I can only think of the Deryn Lake series. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willoyd Posted June 19, 2016 Share Posted June 19, 2016 (edited) There's a lot more if you're prepared to creep into the early 1800s, for instance the Aubrey-Maturin series by Patrick O'Brian and loads of other books set in the Napoleonic Wars, but those below are specifically the second half of the 1700s - I don't know how late you'd like them to be, but some are only just into the 1750s and 1760s. Asterisked are books that I rated 5 or 6 stars (out of 6), but I enjoyed all of them:The 'Regency' novels of Georgette Heyer (whilst the Regency period was strictly 1810-1820, they're really more generically set in late eighteenth, early nineteenth century)Rosetta by Barbara Ewing*The Fraud by Barbara EwingThe Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald*A Place of Greater Safety by Hilary Mantel*Landfalls by Naomi Williams*Casanova by Andrew MillerPure by Andrew Miller*Sedition by Katherine GrantPerfume by Patrick SuskindThe Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness OrczyMistress of the Revolution by Catherine DelorsSacred Hunger by Barry UnsworthMason and Dixon by Thomas PynchonTreasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson*Silver by Andrew MotionThe Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell*The Lambs of London by Peter Ackroyd*According to Queeney by Beryl BainbridgeBurning Bright by Tracey ChevalierThe Potter's Hand by AN Wilson*The Music of the Spheres by Elizabeth RedfernI've not read them but The early Poldark books are all set in the 1790s - Winston Graham Edited June 19, 2016 by willoyd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onion Budgie Posted June 19, 2016 Share Posted June 19, 2016 I'd second the rec for Perfume by Patrick Suskind -- it's wonderful -- except the OP should bear in mind that it's set in France, rather than Britain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
widget55 Posted June 19, 2016 Author Share Posted June 19, 2016 Wow!!! Thanks so much for all those suggestions. I've just ordered 5 of them from my library. Yes, I've read Perfume, one of my favourite books. Really happy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willoyd Posted June 19, 2016 Share Posted June 19, 2016 I'd second the rec for Perfume by Patrick Suskind -- it's wonderful -- except the OP should bear in mind that it's set in France, rather than Britain. Yes, sorry, I missed the bit about being set in Britain. Quite a few are not! Of those, at least partly set in Britain: Rosetta (partly) The Fraud Sedition The Scarlet Pimpernel (partly) The Lambs of London According to Queeney Burning Bright The Potter's Hand The Music of the Spheres Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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