BOOK REVIEW: The Priest’s Madonna by Amy Hassinger
In 1896 Bérenger Saunière, the priest of Rennes-le-Château, suddenly became very wealthy. Has he uncovered clues leading to the hidden treasure of the Knights Templar or information that he is using to...
View ArticleBOOK REVIEW: The Uncrowned Queen by Posie Graeme-Evans
The Uncrowned Queen, the finalé to Posie Graeme-Evans’ Anne trilogy, picks up eighteen months after The Exile. Commencing shortly after Edward Plantagenet, Edward the IV, lost the throne of England to...
View ArticleBOOK REVIEW: Incantation by Alice Hoffman
“I am someoneI never would have imagined.A secret.A dream…body and soul…” Growing up in the small village of Encaleflora, Spain, Estrella deMadrigal is aware of the Spanish Inquisition but believes it...
View ArticleBOOK REVIEW: And Only to Deceive by Tasha Alexander
Emily Bromley, a beautiful young woman is under persistent pressure to marry from an overbearing mother. Even though she would prefer never to marry, she accepts the proposal of wealthy Viscount Philip...
View ArticleBOOK REVIEW: Innocent Traitor by Alison Weir
The term “political pawn” could have been created to describe the short life of Lady Jane Grey. The eldest daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Suffolk, Jane was groomed from infancy to marry a prince...
View ArticleBOOK REVIEW: The Nature of Monsters by Clare Clark
Eliza Tally lives with her mother, a midwife and herbalist, in a small village several hours from London. Following the death of her husband, Eliza’s mother sees few options to ensure their survival...
View ArticleBOOK REVIEW: A Beautiful Blue Death by Charles Finch
Victorian gentleman Charles Lenox recently assisted Scotland Yard in solving the Isabel Lewes case; a simple case the Yard should have easily solved despite their appalling lack of imagination. Now, on...
View ArticleBOOK REVIEW: Lavinia by Ursula K. Le Guin
“All my life since Aeneas’ death might seem a weaving torn out of the loom unfinished, a shapeless tangle of threads making nothing, but it is not so; for my mind returns as the shuttle returns always...
View ArticleBOOK REVIEW: My Lady of Cleves by Margaret Campbell Barnes
After the death of Jane Seymour, Henry VIII was convinced by his advisors to seek another wife. Edward’s health was precarious and a second son would be of great benefit to stability within England....
View ArticleBOOK REVIEW: The Ingenious Edgar Jones by Elizabeth Garner
The birth of Edgar Jones, sometime in the 1850s, was marked by a wonderous meteor shower. His father, a night porter at Oxford University, is sure this is a sign of a great destiny for his son but...
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