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Fair Mountain Christmas by Heidi Eljarbo

Today I’m delighted to be sharing an excerpt from Heidi Eljarbo’s recently released novel Fair Mountain Christmas as part of a blog tour hosted by The Coffee Pot Book Club. Fair Mountain Christmas is a heartwarming Christmas story set in the mountains of Norway in 1972.

The wrought iron candlestick with four holders caught Juni’s attention. Advent, the period of preparation for the birth of the Christ child, had come and gone. She put the advent holder on the kitchen counter. How had ...

A Mystery of Murder by Helen Hollick

Today I’m delighted to be sharing an excerpt from Helen Hollick’s newly released novel A Mystery of Murder as part of a blog tour hosted by The Coffee Pot Book Club. A Mystery of Murder is the second of Helen’s Jan Christopher Mysteries.

Jan Christopher is spending Christmas 1971 with her boyfriend DS Laurie Walker and his parents who live in an old farmhouse in Devon. The village is holding a Christmas carol service around a blazing bonfire – but there’s more going on than just s...

Book Review – The Flight of the Heron by D.K. Broster

The first book of historical fiction that I clearly remember reading was The Flight of the Heron by D.K. Broster. My father gave me a copy for my twelfth birthday. It was a book he had read years before and loved. And he re-read it once I had finished.

The story begins in Scotland in the summer of 1745 around the time of arrival in Scotland of Charles Edward Stuart to claim the kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland. It follows the lives of two men: Ewen Cameron of Ardroy, a highland chief...

Rebel’s Knot by Cryssa Bazos

Today I’m delighted to be sharing an excerpt from Cryssa Bazos’s newly released novel Rebel’s Knot as part of a blog tour hosted by The Coffee Pot Book Club. Rebel’s Knot is the third book in the Quest for Three Kingdoms series.

Áine slipped out of Eireen’s shelter before the first rays lightened the sky and the cock crowed. Having slept fitfully through the night, she welcomed the coolness of the mist to clear her muddled head. Her intention, when she had slipped on her mantle and ti...

Ride with the Moonlight by Andrea Matthews

Today I’m delighted to be sharing an excerpt from Andrea Matthews’ novel Ride with the Moonlight as part of a blog tour hosted by The Coffee Pot Book Club. Ride with the Moonlight is the second book in the Thunder on the Moor time-travel series set on the Scottish borders in the 16th century.

Walt scanned the market square a final time, making sure everyone was still in place. One mistake could doom not only Will, but everyone involved.  

“They’re hanging him now.” His brother Dunc...

Hidden Masterpiece by Heidi Eljarbo

Today I’m delighted to be sharing an excerpt from Heidi Eljarbo’s newly released novel Hidden Masterpiece as part of a blog tour hosted by The Coffee Pot Book Club. Hidden Masterpiece is the third book in the Soli Hansen Mysteries series.

Oslo, 1944

Soli stiffened and pursed her lips. Was Ingrid talking about the ledger Soli had hidden in Far’s trunk? Her stomach knotted at the thought of the Nazis deciphering the clues to the hidden masterpieces.

“Where did you find this book?...

My Reading – October 2021

The Piper by Charles Todd
The old house shuddered in the wind that roared up the glen, swept over the shoulder of the lowest hill, and then dropped howling into the loch on the far side.

Best Seller by Terry Tyler
‘I like the article in Red best, don’t you babe?’

The Crooked Ash: A Derbyshire Legend by J P Reedman
It was the Year of Our Lord 1461 and Edward IV, the young warrior-king, had not long ascended the throne of England.

Dearly: New Poems by Margaret Atwood
These are the late poe...

The Lords of the Wind by C J Adrien

Today I’m delighted to be sharing an excerpt from C J Adrien’s novel The Lords of the Wind as part of a blog tour hosted by The Coffee Pot Book Club. The Lords of the Wind is the first book in The Saga of Hasting the Avenger.

For two days we rowed hard along the coast of Frankland. The gods had robbed the ocean of wind, which made the men uneasy. Superstitions about the weather varied from man to man, but they all agreed that a weak wind, or none at all, did not bode well for us. At n...

Redemption by Philip Yorke

Today I’m delighted to be sharing an excerpt from Philip Yorke’s novel Redemption as part of a blog tour hosted by The Coffee Pot Book Club. Redemption is the second book in Philip’s series The Hacker Chronicles, set during the First English Civil.

Oliver Cromwell breezes into Stathern at four o’clock in the afternoon, galloping into the Hall’s courtyard with the sun at his back and looking every inch the mighty warrior he has become.

Black Jack, his trusted and much-admired horse,...

Traitor’s Knot by Cryssa Bazos

Today I’m delighted to be sharing an excerpt from Cryssa Bazos’s novel Traitor’s Knot as part of a blog tour hosted by The Coffee Pot Book Club. Traitor’s Knot is the first book in Cryssa’s Quest for Three Kingdoms series.

Elizabeth Seton couldn’t understand the greed of seagulls. The two birds beat their wings and fought over a scrap of offal while ignoring the endless sea. She had a desire to pick up her skirts and, so running, scatter them to the sky. But from behind her, a rock wa...