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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...
Spotlight on The Butterfly Cage by Trish McEnulty – Delafield & Malloy Series
About The Delafield & Malloy series: A society writer and a former lady’s maid join forces to expose the dark side of the rich and powerful in the 1910s while also searching for love and success in their own lives. The Butterfly Cage An elderly blind woman...
Spotlight on The London Forgery by Heidi Eljarbo @HeidiEljarbo #CoffeePotBookClub
JUST OUT! Publication Date: August 29th, 2023 Genre: Historical Mystery / Dual-Timeline Historical Fiction 1973. Art historian Fabiola Bennett sees herself as a prudently observant deer who becomes a daring and even mischievous lioness if the situation calls...
The Traitor Beside Her by Mary Anna Evans #WW2 #Coding #USA #CoffeePotBookClub
Codes: When You Need to Send a Message, but You Also Need to Keep a Secret A post by Mary Anna Evans My new novel The Traitor Beside Her is set among American code breakers during World War II. The British code breakers at Bletchley Park have become famous in recent...
A Meadow Murder by Helen Hollick #1970s #mystery #New
ABOUT A MEADOW MURDER Make hay while the sun shines? Summer 1972. Young library assistant Jan Christopher and her fiancé, DS Lawrence Walker, are on holiday in North Devon. There are country walks and a day at the races to enjoy, along with Sunday lunch at the village...
The Lady of the Tower by Elizabeth StJohn #Audiobook #CoffeePotBookClub
Audio clip to go with this Snippet: https://youtu.be/yCUnukZpQDk PROLOGUE God, who holds my fate in Thy hands, give me strength, I implore, for today I enter a prison like no other on this earth, and perhaps one that even Hell does not equal in its fiery despair. Give...
The Diplomat’s Wife Series and the O-5 Group by Chrystyna Lucyk-Berger #WW2 #Resistance #HistoricalFiction
My guest today is Chrystyna Lucyk-Berger, to tell us about her WW2 series and the O-5 Resistance Group. The Anschluss in Austria sparked one of the most brutal and violent anti-Semitic pogroms in all of the Third Reich. Vienna was bubbling over with anti-Semitism...