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Spotlight on Strait Lace by Rosemary Hayward #Edwardian #CoffeePotBookClub
It is 1905. Edwardian England. Harriet Loxley, the daughter of a vicar and niece to a prominent Nottingham lace manufacturer, spends her days playing cricket with her brother, scouring the countryside for botanical specimens, and never missing an opportunity to argue...
Death of a Princess by R N Morris #Review #CoffeePotBookClub #CrimeFiction
Summer 1880. Lipetsk, a spa town in Russia. The elderly and cantankerous Princess Belskaya suffers a violent reaction while taking a mud bath at the famous Lipetsk Sanatorium. Soon after, she dies. Dr Roldugin, the medical director of the sanatorium, is at a loss to...
Ghost Encounters by Helen and Kathy Hollick #CoffeePotBookClub
Everyone assumes that ghosts are hostile. Actually, most of them are not. You either believe in ghosts or you don’t. It depends on whether you’ve encountered something supernatural or not. But when you share a home with several companionable spirits, or discover...
The Fires of Gallipoli by Barney Campbell Excerpt #CoffeePotBookClub #WW1
The Fires of Gallipoli by Barney Campbell Autumn turned into winter. The battalion moved a mile to the north-west of the blind crests to relieve a unit that was deemed combat ineffective following the twin heads of a failed attack and a virulent strain of dysentery...
The Lifeline by Deborah Swift – New edition #WW2 #HistoricalFiction
THE LIFELINE was published five years ago and over that time gathered up more than a thousand fantastic reviews from readers. Unfortunately when it republished, due to some sort of Amazon glitch it lost all its reviews and is now showing only 13. I can't seem to get...
The Usurper King by Mercedes Rochelle #CoffeePotBookClub #Review #HistoricalFiction
About the book: From Outlaw to Usurper, Henry Bolingbroke fought one rebellion after another. First, he led his own uprising. Gathering support the day he returned from exile, Henry marched across the country and vanquished the forsaken Richard II. Little did he...
The Lotus House by Ann Bennett #Philippines #WW2 #CoffeePotBookClub
NEW RELEASE! The Lotus House Praise for Ann Bennett: "What an amazing read!!! I didn't expect this to be a roller coaster of emotions, suspense, and mystery but it was everything!!… The characters were amazing, the story will keep you wanting more and more until the...
Love Habit by TL Clark #MM #TudorRomance #HistoricalFiction #15thCentury #Monastery
SPOTLIGHT ON Love Habit: A Historical Tudor Romance About Christian Monks (Love Through The Ages; stand-alone historical books) Two monks in love… 1485: Paul timidly enters Darenth Priory to avoid marriage. In good faith, he expects to live out his days in chaste...
The World Turned Upside Down by Seth Irving Handaside #USHistory #CoffeePotBookClub
"The World Turned Upside Down" takes readers on an exhilarating journey through one of history's most transformative periods. This masterful work of historical fiction follows the audacious British-American colonists, known as the Founders, as they boldly rise...
Silver Anniversary for Harold the King by Helen Hollick #CoffeePotBookClub #1066
Harold The King (UK title) I Am The Chosen King (US / Canada title) *Silver Publication Anniversary* January 7th, 2025 - Original Publication Date: January 2000 - - 25 years in print! 🥂First published in 2000 – Celebrating a Silver Publication Anniversary!🥂 The...
The Three Deaths of Justice Godfrey by L C Tyler #review #murdermystery
REVIEW I love this series - there is so much to enjoy in the period. In this novel poor Justice Godfrey has met his end in three different ways - bludgeoned, stabbed and strangled - thus leading John Grey to wonder if it could be suicide and some people (who might...
The Royal Menagerie of Versailles by Peggy Joque Williams #CoffeePotBookClub #17thCentury
Le Ménagerie Royale de Versailles King Louis XIV, the monarch who ruled France throughout most of the 17th century and is a central character in Courting the Sun: A Novel of Versailles, had his own zoo at Versailles. He called it Le Ménagerie Royale. In this excerpt...
The Paris Portrait by Heidi Eljarbo #CoffeePotBookClub #Paris #Art
Fabiola stumbles upon a clue that indicates a royal portrait went missing almost two hundred years ago. Is this true, or is there substance to the rumor? Paris, France, 1973. After an enjoyable but dusty road trip, Fabiola and her friends, Pippa and Cary, arrive in a...
Women in the Early Theatre – Elizabeth Knepp by Deborah Swift #HistoricalFiction
Elizabeth Knepp, sometimes known as Mary Knepp, was borm as Elizabeth Carpenter and married her husband Christopher in 1659. He was known as a 'jockey' a common word then for someone who had a profession to do with horses,, so he was probably a horse dealer, with his...
The King’s Intelligencer by Elizabeth StJohn #NewRelease #RichardIII #CoffeePotBookClub
Discovering the Missing Princes in the Tower London, 1674 When children’s bones are unexpectedly unearthed in the Tower of London, England’s most haunting mystery—the fate of the missing princes—is reignited. Franny Apsley, trusted confidante to Charles II’s beloved...