The Accidental Debutante

By

Jane Dunn

Clorinda the Winged Venus, star attraction at Prebble’s Flying Circus come to the end of her act with a delicate backward flip to land on the rump of her horse...
Fiction, Historical
The East End Girls

By

Jean Fullarton

In 1942 London was being bombed by the German Air Force in what became known as the Blitzkrieg. Able bodied men of all ages were being recruited into the Armed...
Fiction, Historical
The War Within Me

By

Tracy Ryan

The second novel in the Queens of Navarre trilogy, The War Within Me from Tracy Ryan continues with Princess Jeanne d’Albret a woman who is determined, purposeful and intelligent. She...
Fiction, Historical
Honour’s Mimic

By

Charmaine Clift; Afterword Nadia Wheatley.

To read Honour’s Mimic is such a pleasure. The author is gifted in her writing and the reader cannot help but linger over phrases and descriptions. Charmian Clift is less...
Fiction, General, Historical
The Irish Daughter:

By

Daisy O'Shea

The Polio Epidemic  that occurred in Ireland during the late 1948-1955 era struck fear into parents and is the era in which Daisy O’Shea has set her latest novel The...
Historical
Murder In Vienna

By

E.C.R. Lorac

Murder in Vienna as well as, The Haunted Vintage and Tea on Sunday have been chosen by the British Library Publishing to be reprinted. The books written in a period...
Crime, Fiction, Historical
The Resistance Girls

By

Alice G May

It is March 1942 and Wren, Serenity Ashworth, has just made a major change in her, to date, very formal and constricted life by signing the Official Secrets Act, committing...
Fiction, Historical
The Devil’s Own Duke

By

Anna Harrington

If you are looking for a little bit of escapism via Regency England, the forth book in The  Dukes of Darkness series from Anna Harrington, The Devil’s Own Duke is...
Fiction, General, Historical
Out of the Woods

By

Gretchen Shirm

‘Out of the Woods’ set in 2000, by highly regarded author Gretchen Shirm, takes the reader back to a terrible time in the history of Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina;...
Fiction, General, Historical
The Lavendar Bride

By

Alexandra Weston

Set in 1946 and the following post World War II years, The Lavender Bride is based loosely on the life of Hollywood legend Rock Hudson, who while playing alongside Doris...
Fiction, General, Historical