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Read all about the new release Minotaur’s Lair by Luciana Cavallaro #CoffeePotBookClub @ClucianaLuciana
Take a look at this new historical fantasy based on Greek Mythology! The Minotaur stirs. Evan is drugged to forget the gods’ quest. Evan and his companions are entrapped by the Amazon Queen Antioche and her warriors. Memories and allegiances are tested. The Dark...
The Model Spy by Maryka Baggio
THE MODEL SPY is based on the true story of Toto Koopman, who spied for the Allies and Italian Resistance during World War II. Largely unknown today, Toto was arguably the first woman to spy for the British Intelligence Service. Operating in the hotbed of Mussolini's...
Son of Anger by Donovan Cook – Read an Extract #CoffeePotBookClub #Historical #Viking
Read this gripping extract from Son of Anger, Book 1 in the Ormstunga Trilogy They were halfway through their breakfast when the horn blew. The men looked up from their bowls and at each other. It was time. Snorri looked around at the seven men he thought of as...
The Hearts of All on Fire by Alana White #15thCentury #MurderMystery #CoffeePotBookClub
Florence, 1473. An impossible murder. A bitter rivalry. A serpent in the ranks. Florentine investigator Guid’Antonio Vespucci returns to Florence from a government mission to find his dreams of success shattered. Life is good—but then a wealthy merchant dies from...
The Fortune Keeper – and my Newsletter
Hello to followers of my blog. This is the sort of thing I send out in my Newsletter to let people know about my books, and to keep in touch with readers. You can join the newsletter and my company of readers by clicking the main link on my website. New Release...
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...