Jul 1, 2024
The Curse of Maiden Scars Maiden, Mother, Crone Trilogy A Yorkshire orphan struggling for opportunity against 18th-century odds reluctantly transforms into a Venetian courtesan during the Empire’s last days. Sixteen-year-old Renna Covert toils away in the...
Oct 21, 2023
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...
Feb 5, 2018
by Katherine Clements One coin marks the first to go A second bodes the fall The third will seal a sinner’s fate The Devil take them all… So recites Mercy Booth, the protagonist of my latest novel, recalling an old folkloric rhyme, remembered from her childhood. The...
May 23, 2016
You can’t live in the Westmorland area and not know anything about Lady Anne Clifford. In the 17th century she travelled around her vast Northern estates accompanied by more than forty carts which contained everything she needed to make herself comfortable at...
Oct 1, 2015
The Smoke of her Burning Ladies and gentlemen, I’d like to introduce you to one Captain – Colonel, now – Holofernes Babbitt. Hollie to his friends. A man who begins the Uncivil Wars series as a disaffected mercenary cavalry captain in the Army of...
