Book Review: Fyneshade
On the day of her grandmother’s funeral, Marta discovers that she is to be sent away. She is to be governess at Fyneshade, a house full of secrets… Continue reading Book Review: Fyneshade
Category: History
Book Review: Sherlock Holmes: A Detective’s Life
The famous detective returns in a thrilling anthology of Sherlock short stories, penned by masters of the genre. Continue reading Book Review: Sherlock Holmes: A Detective’s Life
Book Review: Bonny and Read
Caribbean, 1720. Two extraordinary women are on the run – from their pasts, from the British Navy and the threat of execution, and from the destiny that fate has written for them. Continue reading Book Review: Bonny and Read
Book Review: Blue Water
A missing treaty and a murderer, all on board one ship… Continue reading Book Review: Blue Water
Book Review: Blackstone Fell
Yorkshire, 1606. A man vanishes from a locked gatehouse in a remote village. 300 years later, it happens again.
Autumn 1930. Journalist Nell Fagan knows there’s only one person who can get to the bottom of this mystery: Rachel Savernake. But someone wants Nell dead, and soon, while investigating a series of recent deaths at Blackstone Sanatorium, she’s missing entirely. Continue reading Book Review: Blackstone Fell
Theatre Review: All’s Well That Ends Well
Low-born orphan Helena is convinced that she and image-conscious Bertram are couple goals. He’s not so sure. Continue reading Theatre Review: All’s Well That Ends Well
Book Review: Pirate Queens
Between August and October 1720, two female pirates named Anne Bonny and Mary Read terrorized the Caribbean in and around Jamaica. Despite their short career, they became two of the most notorious pirates during the height of the eighteenth-century Golden Age of Piracy. Continue reading Book Review: Pirate Queens
Book Review: Joan
1412. France is mired in a losing war against England. Its people are starving. Its king is in hiding. From this chaos emerges a teenage girl who will turn the tide of battle and lead the French to victory… Continue reading Book Review: Joan
Book Review: The Path of Thorns
Alone in the world, Asher Todd travels to the remote estate of Morwood Grange to become governess to three small children. Soon Asher fits in as if she’s always been there, but there are creatures that stalk the woods at night, spectres haunt the halls, and Asher is not as much a stranger as it might at first appear. Continue reading Book Review: The Path of Thorns
Book Review: The Skeleton Key
Fifty years ago, Nell’s father wrote The Golden Bones. Part picture book, part treasure hunt, Sir Frank Churcher created a fairy story about Elinore, a murdered woman whose skeleton was scattered all over England. Continue reading Book Review: The Skeleton Key
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