After reading American Wolf by Nate Blakeslee, Yellowstone National Park is one of the places I’ve never visited but love to read about. So the first line of the synopsis for The Winterkeeper sold this novel to me instantly! Gardiner MT, just outside Yellowstone National Park, Winter, 1933. Three people - each with the toughness and desire … Continue reading Book Review: The Winterkeeper by Anna Schmidt
Happy publication day to Elizabeth Letts, Finding Dorothy is out in hardback today! Behind the most famous movie ever made is a tale of love, magic and one incredible woman Hollywood, 1938: As soon as she learns that M-G-M is adapting her late husband's masterpiece, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, for the screen, Maud Gage Baum sets about trying … Continue reading Book Review: Finding Dorothy by Elizabeth Letts
Hosted by Lipsy Lost and Found, my Wednesday post gives you a taste of what I’m reading this week. A similar meme is run by Taking on a World of Words. Finding Dorothy by Elizabeth Letts Behind the most famous movie ever made is a tale of love, magic and one incredible woman Hollywood, 1938: As soon as … Continue reading This Week in Books (03/04/19)
Welcome to my stop on the blog tour for the second book in the Mayfair 100 series, I’m delighted to be sharing my review with you today. Set against the backdrop of WW1, Mayfair 100 is the telephone number for a small, specially-formed crime fighting team based in a house in Mayfair. A call comes … Continue reading Blog Tour | Book Review: A Death in Chelsea by Lynn Brittney (Mayfair 100 #2)
Jón Eiríksson buried one wife this year.But how long can his secrets remain hidden? 1686, Iceland. A wild, isolated landscape that can swallow a man without so much as a volcanic gasp, where superstitious Icelanders are haunted by all-too-recent memories of witch trials. Rósa is leaving her home in Skalholt. Betrothed unexpectedly to the mysterious … Continue reading Blog Tour | Book Review: The Glass Woman by Caroline Lea
With a cover that screams ‘Gothic historical fiction’, I just had to read this one! Audrey Hart is on the Isle of Skye to collect the folk and fairy tales of the people and communities around her. It is 1857 and the Highland Clearances have left devastation and poverty, and a community riven by fear. … Continue reading Book Review: The Story Keeper by Anna Mazzola
Happy publication day to Sonia Velton, her historical fiction debut, Blackberry and Wild Rose publishes today. WHEN ESTHER THOREL, the wife of a Huguenot silk-weaver, rescues Sara Kemp from a brothel she thinks she is doing God's will. Sara is not convinced being a maid is better than being a whore, but the chance to … Continue reading Book Review: Blackberry and Wild Rose by Sonia Velton
