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A Matter of Time by Judith Arnopp #CoffeePotBookClub #Tudor #Review
A Matter of Time Henry VIII: The Dying of the Light - The Henrician Chronicle, Book 3 Review This is a superb chronicle of the last years of one of the most famous kings of England. Written entirely from Henry's perspective, we watch him wrestle with the the killing...
I’m on tour for The Shadow Network #CoffeePotBookClub #HistoricalFiction #WW2
Virtual Book Tour I'm on tour for the next moth visiting various blogs courtesy of the Coffee Pot Book Club! You can find all the links here on their site: https://thecoffeepotbookclub.blogspot.com/2023/12/blog-tour-the-shadow-network-by-deborah-swift.html On the tour...
Weaving Mama’s Dress through The Low Road – a blog post by Katharine Quarmby #CoffeePotBookClub
Weaving Mama’s dress through The Low Road - a writer's process Katharine Quarmby “The good wife had given me a grey dress, in a soft cotton, and I had hand sewn our favourite flowers around the hem, cornflowers for me, and poppies for George.” This dress, given to...
Beautiful Ghost by Milana Marsenich #CoffeePotBookClub #20thCentury #HistoricalFiction
About Beautiful Ghost During the fall of 1918, the influenza pandemic crosses the nation and reaches the mining town of Butte, Montana. Marika Jovich, who wants to go to school to become a physician, works menial tasks for Dr. Fletcher. She feels useless as she tries...
Twelfth Cake House by Heidi Eljarbo #Historical #Romance #CoffeePotBookClub
Even a clever matchmaker may need a push in the right direction if she’s to find true love. When she’s asked to find a match for herself, it proves to be the most difficult task she’s ever undertaken. Mid-December 1796. Sixty-year-old spinster Miss Jemima Thurgood has...
The Fortune Teller of Kathmandu by Ann Bennett #India #Burma #CoffeePotBookClub #wartime
Hampshire, UK, 2015. When Chloe Harper’s beloved grandmother, Lena dies, a stranger hands her Lena’s wartime diary. Chloe sets out to uncover deep family secrets that Lena guarded to her grave. Darjeeling, India, 1943. Lena Chatterjee leaves the confines of a strict...
Madame Pommery by Rebecca Rosenberg #Review #Champagne #HistoricalFiction #CoffeePotBookClub
Review of Madame Pommery by Rebecca Rosenberg If you know nothing about how Champagne is made, or its history, then you can't do better than to pick up this book. The painstaking and long process from choosing the right blend of grape to crushing and fermenting s...
Spotlight on Twelve Nights by Penny Ingham #16thCentury #MurderMystery #CoffeePotBookClub
1592. The Theatre, London. When a player is murdered, suspicion falls on the wardrobe mistress, Magdalen Bisset, because everyone knows poison is a woman’s weapon. The coroner is convinced of her guilt. The scandal-pamphlets demonize her. Magdalen is innocent,...
Anthologies in 2023 with contributions by Deborah Swift @swiftstory #Anthology #HistoricalFiction #WW2 #Touch
ACTION THIS DAY I've been lucky enough to be invited to contribute to several anthologies over this year, so I thought I'd highlight them in a post. My story The Secret Listener is based on true events in WW2, where young men who were expert radio buffs were recruited...
Spotlight on House Aretoli by K M Butler #Venice #Medieval #HistoricalFiction #NewRelease
HOUSE ARETOLI A new release in Medieval historical fiction set in Italy 1365, Venice, Italy. For generations, the merchants of House Aretoli have profited through faithful service to the Republic of Venice. Despite being only a minor senatorial family, they’ve...
The Familists by VEH Masters #16thCentury #Conversos #Castilians #Reformation
Vicki Masters is on my blog today to tell us about her series set in the Reformation and Counter-Reformation, and her new book The Familists. 1. The Familists is your fourth book in The Seton Chronicles. Tell us about the story so far. I wrote the first book, The...
Spotlight on The Matchstick Boy by Rowena Kinread #Switzerland #19thCentury #TrueCrime
This new novel takes place in a remote Swiss valley in the mid-19th century. It is based on a true story. The Matchstick Boy: Jakob, a simple farmer, is determined to gain justice for his daughter, against the odds. When his young brother, Josef, is killed by a rock...
Times of Turmoil by Anna Belfrage #Interview #TimeTravel #HistoricalFiction #CoffeePotBookClub
Times of Turmoil is out now, and It's lovely to host Anna Belfrage on my blog today to reveal some fascinating details about her time-travelling characters and history. Erin Barnes sounds like a person who needs to stand up for herself. What is it about her background...
The Fifty Lost Christmases of Dolly Hunter by Jo Priestley #Yorkshire #Christmas #HistoricalFiction
Being brought up in Yorkshire myself, I'm thrilled to introduce you to Jo Priestley and her Women of Old Yorkshire series. Over to Jo: As the title of the series suggests, old Yorkshire is the setting for all my six historical fiction books from the Victorian era...
SALT OF THE EARTH by JJ Marsh #iodine #history #historicalfiction #medicine
I'm delighted to host JJ Marsh on my blog today to tell us about her new novel, SALT of the EARTH. SALT OF THE EARTH is a historical fiction novel set in the early 1900s. Overshadowed by world events such as the Great War and Russian Revolution, a quiet transformation...