Historical fiction
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For Stacking The Shelves hosted by Reading Reality I’m posting the books I’ve added to my digital library this week, and the blurbs that made me download them in the first place. The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow From Goodreads: Sir Una Everlasting was Dominion’s greatest hero: the orphaned girl who became a knight, who…
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Lord bless us! it was a Diamond! As large, or nearly, as a plover’s egg! The light that streamed from it was like the light of the harvest moon. A fabled diamond known as the Moonstone and said to be cursed is stolen from its new owner after a birthday dinner at the Verinder Estate…
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Ad/PR. Many thanks to Victory Editing NetGalley Co-op and NetGalley for this ARC. The Ghost of Hightower Pond releases today, Oct 13, 2026. Prepare for a tale of terror. The ghost of Hightower Pond. It is eighteen hundred and something, and the plague is ravaging London. While the poor are left to the mercy of…
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Ad/PR/Patrocinado. Many thanks to Boldwood Books and NetGalley for this ARC of Operation Vienna by Michael Ridpath, book 2 in The Foreign Correspondent series. Set in Vienna in the early 1930s, Operation Vienna follows historian Archie Laverick, and foreign correspondent Esme Carmichael, who are investigating a supposed suicide. The rich American Howland Witherell, who was…
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Ad/PR/Patrocinado. In September I read cozy mysteries, paranormal mysteries, thrillers, historical fiction, and fantasy. I read about witches, golems, vampires and werevolves, I read about elder and retired sleuths and assassins, about former crusaders and journalists, about deadline dinner parties, police investigations, monster hunters and fish and chips. I read about finding yourself, about second…
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In recognition of the fact that I have way too many ebooks just sitting around, doing whatever the digital equivalent to gathering dust on the shelf is, I’ve decided to introduce Sunday Shelf Exploration, which is what I plan to call it when I take a look at my ebook collection through a scavenger hunt,…
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None could go against the King and Queen of England, least of all Catrin. Not overtly, anyway. Book 1 in The Welsh Guard Mysteries series. Wales was a perilous place in 1284. Defeated and taken over by the English, the Welsh were forced to work for their conquerors if they wanted a chance to feed…
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Thirty minutes to steal a book and to escape. Book 1 in The Invisible Library series. A vampire book collector, a sinister and alluring Fae, a famous detective, dangerous steampunk contraptions, a glamorous cat burglar and a surprise assignment to tutor a distractingly handsome new apprentice. If this doesn’t sound like the perfect recipe for…
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This week I’m joining the #oldskoolchallengeclub with #DateWithABook by @hook.me.a.book, with a chat about a bookish date, using book titles to answer these questions: Who was your date with?Where did you meet?What time was the rendezvous?What did you wear?What did you talk about?Will there be a second date? Books used for this challenge:– The Book…
