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
A Whisper and a Curse 

By

Darcy Burke

Book three in the Raven and Wren series, A Whisper and a Curse continues the association of the Earl of Ravenswood, Hadrian Becket and Matilda Wren, private investigator as Hadrian’s...
Crime, Fiction, Historical
A Gentleman’s Offer

By

Emma Orchard

A tall, well-dressed woman fleeing in the darkest night goes unremarked; the shabby carriage arrives, the heavily cloaked figure enters and a comforting voice reassures the runaway that all will...
Fiction, Historical
The Paris Express

By

Emma Donoghue

On 22 October, 1894 there was a spectacular train derailment at Montparnasse Station in Paris. One person was killed, a newspaper seller, Marie Haguillard. The first reaction from witnesses and...
Fiction, General, Historical