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Her Darkest Hour by Suzy Henderson #Review #Witchcraft #WW2 #HistoricalFantasy
England, 1939. A Witch in Hiding. A Nation at War. A Traitor in the Shadows. Eliza MacLean has spent years suppressing her magic - until war and tragedy force her to flee to Cambridge. Among the women of the WVS, she hopes to find safety, but Cambridge holds dangerous...
Spotlight on The Finding by Jane Hunt #WW2 #CoffeePotBookClub #Wiltshire #Novella
The Finding by Jane Hunt - a WW2 Novella This poignant novella is a tale of forbidden love, resilience, and the human cost of war. In the quiet fields of Wiltshire during World War II, Eveline, a sheltered young woman, stumbles upon a life-altering discovery: a German...
Launch Day for Last Train to Freedom #NewRelease
This was a fascinating book to research and taught me a history that I previously did not know existed. Here is a little background to the book -- The Jewish Community of Kaunas In Lithuania before the war, Jews made up roughly one-third of Kaunas’s population—about...
Bess – Tudor Gentlewoman by Tony Riches #Elizabethan #Tudors #HistoricalFiction
Congratulations to Tony Riches on the launch of BESS - TUDOR GENTLEWOMAN Book Six of the Elizabethan Series “A thrilling portrait of a remarkable woman who witnessed the key events of Elizabethan England.” Bess Throckmorton defies her notorious background and lack of...
The Florence Sisters by Tessa Harris #WW2 #Review #HistoricalFiction
The Florence Sisters A war-torn city. A stolen masterpiece. Two lives in the balance… Italy, 1940. With Florence on the cusp of war, Il Scorpione, the no-nonsense Englishwomen of the city, find their genteel livelihoods under grave threat by the approach of the Nazis....
The Ballad of Mary Kearney by Katherine Mezzacappa
ABOUT THE BOOK ‘I am dead, my Mary; the man who loved you body and soul lies in some dishonorable grave.’ In County Down, Ireland, in 1767, a nobleman secretly marries his servant, in defiance of law, class, and religion. Can their love survive tumultuous times?...
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...