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Spotlight – The Trail to Crooked Creek by MK McClintock

Today I’m delighted to be shining a spotlight on MK McClintock’s newly released novella, The Trail to Crooked Creek, as part of a blog tour hosted by The Coffee Pot Book Club. The Trail to Crooked Creek is an historical romance set inpost-Civil War Montana and is part of the Crooked Creek series.

Blurb

Everyday heroes who find the courage to believe in extraordinary love.

Two years after the devastations of war left their mark on a country torn apart, Wesley Davenport, a former s...

Handy Household Hints

While trawling though historical newspapers recently I read, in amongst a collection of household hints, a particularly eye-watering recipe for a hair tonic (more about that later). At that moment household hints seemed vastly more fascinating than the topic I was researching so I went on a household hint hunt. Newspaper columns devoted to these hints seemed to be at their peak in the second decade of the twentieth century, in Australia at least, but had been published regularly since the 1860s...

Wordless Wednesday – Recycling

My Reading – January 2024

The Road to Grantchester by James Runcie
They are in the Caledonian Club, dancing the quickstep. Sidney is eighteen.

Question 7 by Richard Flanagan
In the winter of 2012, against my better judgement and for reasons that were not entirely to do with writing – much as I said they were – and which even now are not clear to me, I visited the Ohama Camp, Japan, where my father had once been interned.

Wordless Wednesday – Whiskers

Faces in the Street – Bestest Friends

Those of us whose households include furred members know what an important part of family life they play and if a family photograph is taken, they often take their rightful place alongside us. For children they are often their ‘bestest’ friends, especially when the child is in trouble for a misdeed. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, studio photographic portraits were generally formal and required the subject to sit quiet and still for a time. This meant that it was difficult to ha...

Wordless Wednesday – Painted Sky

Wordless Wednesday

AnaRose and the Templar’s Quest by Mary Ann Bernal

AnaRose Preston is a respected museum curator and antiquities expert. When she travels to France to authenticate a ring believed to have belonged to Balian of Ibelin, the knight who surrendered Jerusalem to Saladin, she embarks on what quickly becomes a quest to locate a legendary relic, the Holy Nail, possibly hidden in a dagger brought to France by a Knight Templar. But others, with dubious motives and less than savoury methods, are also seeking the relic.

With plenty of twists and turn...

Wordess Wednesday – Bark