Happy UK Publication Day! Nothing quite like a historical romance to make you swoon... especially if it’s one featuring a hero from Lara Temple’s imagination! Dashing and disreputable...Now, he's back in Society's ballrooms!Whispers of Captain Kit Carrington - now Lord Westford - have long scandalised the ton...so his arrival at the season's most-anticipated ball sends... Continue Reading →
Oooh the clock is ticking down the hours of 2020 and I have reviews I'd like to post before the new year. I suspect I won't get through all that I want to review but I'm giving it a good try! These two gems here are books I read earlier in the year and never... Continue Reading →
Welcome to my stop on the blog tour for The Return of the Disappearing Duke by Lara Temple. Another hit for me by this author! A scarred mercenary…Or the Disappearing Duke of Greybourne?Rafe has spent years running from his true identity. He’s a lone wolf, living far from aristocratic England and his violent father. Then unconventional Cleopatra... Continue Reading →
You know that wonderful feeling of getting lost in a story? That book you think about even when you’re separated from the pages. That book you can’t wait to curl up with each day and get to the next part of the story. The book that makes you slow down your reading speed because you... Continue Reading →
And then there are some Historical Mysteries that just light up this reader’s heart. I saw Deception by Gaslight on NetGalley and thought, oh that looks good, I’ll give it a try. I thought it would be a light read, hopefully even enjoyable. I did not expect to spend a couple hours on Mother’s Day... Continue Reading →
In 1960s Florida, a young Cuban exile will risk her life—and heart—to take back her country in this exhilarating historical novel from the author of The Last Train to Key West and Next Year in Havana, a Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick.Beautiful. Daring. Deadly. The Cuban Revolution took everything from sugar heiress Beatriz Perez—her family, her people, her country. Recruited... Continue Reading →
I adore how well-written historical fiction can bring an emotional understanding to issues that no textbook ever could. In doing so, readers / students / historians even can connect with a piece of the past in an even more authentic way. What are some of your favourites in this genre? Given my profession, as I... Continue Reading →
In 1945, Elsie Schmidt is a naive teenager, as eager for her first sip of champagne as she is for her first kiss. She and her family have been protected from the worst of the terror and desperation overtaking her country by a high-ranking Nazi who wishes to marry her. So when an escaped Jewish... Continue Reading →
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