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Writing Viking women back into history by Jean Gill #Viking #HistoricalFiction #amwriting
My guest today is Jean Gill, here to tell us more about her fantastic Orkney saga and the Viking women in her novel. Meek and anonymous or shield-maidens laying about them with axes? What were Viking women really like? These were the questions in my mind when I...
Spotlight on Squire’s Hazard by Carolyn Hughes #CoffeePotBookClub #Medieval
How do you overcome the loathing, lust and bitterness threatening you and your family’s honour? It's 1363, and in Steyning Castle, Sussex, Dickon de Bohun is enjoying life as a squire in the household of Earl Raoul de Fougère. Or he would be, if it weren’t for Edwin...
Gallows Wake by Helen Hollick #NewRelease #Pirate #Historical
Delighted to feature Helen Hollick today with the latest addition to her Piratical adventures. Helen is a massive supporter of other historical fiction authors and their books and is an ardent reader and reviewer. Here's Helen to tell us more about GALLOWS WAKE. THE...
The Godmother’s Secret by Elizabeth St John #PrincesInTheTower #CoffeePotBookClub
If you knew the fate of the Princes in the Tower would you tell? Or forever keep the secret? May 1483: The Tower of London. When King Edward IV dies and Lady Elysabeth Scrope delivers her young godson, Edward V, into the Tower of London to prepare for his coronation,...
Highly Recommended Read of the Month: The Ring Breaker by Jean Gill #Viking #HistoricalFiction
About The Ring Breaker 'A skilfully written, beautifully researched coming-of-age story set in Viking Orkney.’ Lexie Conyngham, the Orkneyinga Murders series Loyalty has a price the children pay In the twilight of the old gods, when the last Vikings rule the seas, two...
Julia Prima by Alison Morton #CoffeePotBookClub #Review #Rome #Thriller
JULIA PRIMA by Alison Morton Blurb “You should have trusted me. You should have given me a choice.” AD 370, Roman frontier province of Noricum. Neither wholly married nor wholly divorced, Julia Bacausa is trapped in the power struggle between the Christian church and...
Brushstrokes from the Past by Heidi Eljarbo #DualTimeline #Historical #CoffeePotBookClub
WWII and the mid-seventeenth century are entwined in this fourth dual timeline novel about Nazi art theft, bravery, friendship, and romance. April 1945. Art historian Soli Hansen and her friend Heddy arrive at an excavation site only to find Soli’s old archeology...
The Du Lac Chronicles by Mary Anne Yarde #Arthurian #HistoricalFiction
Spotlight on the Du Lac Chronicles - A must for fans of Arthurian Legend! A generation after Arthur Pendragon ruled, Briton lies fragmented into warring kingdoms and principalities. Eighteen-year-old Alden du Lac ruled the tiny kingdom of Cerniw. Now he half-hangs...
Cragside: A 1930’s Murder Mystery by M J Porter #CoffeePotBookClub #MurderMystery #Extract
Dive into this 1930's Murder Mystery! Cragside by M J Porter - Excerpt The following day – Lady Merryweather is now assisting Detective Inspector Aldcroft, and together they examine the scene of the murder I step outside. The rain has finally stopped, the drip of...
The Girl From Oto by Amy Maroney #Audiotour #audiobook #CoffeePotBookClub @wilaroney
I really enjoyed this series of books and here they are on audio, narrated by Meg Price. Do go and get a treat of a listen! About the first in the series: A Renaissance-era woman artist and an American scholar. Linked by a 500-year-old mystery… The secrets of the past...
The Girl from Bologna by Siobhan Daiko #Review #WW2 #CoffeePotBookClub
About the Book: Just last week, she read Faulkner’s words, “the past is never dead. It’s not even past,” and they resonated with her. It’s true; the past is NEVER past. She can no longer bury what happened; she can no longer forget... Bologna, Italy, 1944, and the...
Two Presidents of WW2 by Richard Marrison #HistoryTen #WW2 #Presidents
Today I welcome Richard Marrison to my blog to give us his take on the presidents of two of the most influential nations in WW2. Richard is from Budapest, Hungary and holds a degree in Cultural Anthropology from Eötvös Loránd University. Over to Richard: World War 2,...
Leningrad: The People’s War by Rachel R. Heil #CoffeePotBookClub #WW2
I'm delighted to spotlight this fascinating new WW2 novel by Rachel Heil - Leningrad: The People’s War (Leningrad, Book 1) About the Book: Leningrad, 1941. As Europe crumbles under the German war machine, the people of the Soviet Union watch. There are whispers of war...
Raleigh Tudor Adventurer by Tony Riches #CoffeePotBookClub #Elizabethan #Biographical
Tudor adventurer, courtier, explorer and poet, Sir Walter Raleigh has been called the last true Elizabethan. He didn’t dance or joust, didn’t come from a noble family, or marry into one. So how did an impoverished law student become a favourite of the queen, and...
De-clutter your description in historical fiction #HistoricalFiction #amwriting
I've just been reading a historical novel set back in Tudor times. And I was taken with the fact that often my imagination was held up by unnecessary words. These are words that don't earn their keep and merely make the prose more verbose. Often these are words about...