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• Camelot at Christmas: What was Christmas like in Arthurian Britain? Guest Post by Mary Anne Yarde
  on Dec 20, 2016
  Like a sparrow flying through a Mead Hall…"...O King...you sit a supper in winter, with your commanders and ministers, with a good fire in the midst, while the storms of rain and snow rage outside..."The Venerable Bede, Ecclesiastical History of th...
• New Historical Fiction: The Beaufort Woman: Book Two of The Beaufort Chronicles, by Judith Arnopp
  on Dec 8, 2016 in Book Launch Tudors
  New on Amazon UK and Amazon USMargaret Beaufort's story continues inThe Beaufort WomanAs the struggle between York and Lancaster continues, Margaret Beaufort fights for admittance to the court of the victorious Edward IV of York and his unpopular que...
• Special Guest Post: Girl In A Golden Cage by Lucy Branch
  on Dec 7, 2016 in Book Launch Guest post
  Available on Amazon UK and Amazon USMaking decisions is not one of Francesca Milliardo's strengths so when something mysterious starts unfolding in her father's mansion in Milan - it's no surprise that she's unsure what to do. Francesca dreams of bec...
• New Historical Fiction ~ First of the Tudors by Joanna Hickson
  on Dec 5, 2016 in Book Launch Historical Fiction Tudors
  Available from Amazon UK and Pre-Order from Amazon US‘The throne must be a lonely place when you do not have close family, whose loyalty you can rely on.’Jasper Tudor, son of Queen Catherine and her second husband, Owen Tudor, has grown up f...
• The Du Lac Devil (Book 2 of The Du Lac Chronicles), by Mary Anne Yarde
  on Dec 3, 2016 in Book Launch Historical Fiction Spotlight
  NowAvailable for Pre-Order atAmazon UK and Amazon USThe best-selling Du Lac Chronicles continues:War is coming to Saxon Briton.As one kingdom after another falls to the savage might of the High King, Cerdic of Wessex, only one family dares to stand u...
• New Historical Fiction: The Du Lac Devil (Book 2 of The Du Lac Chronicles), by Mary Anne Yarde
  on Dec 3, 2016 in Book Launch Historical Fiction Spotlight
  New on Amazon UK and Amazon USThe best-selling Du Lac Chronicles continues:War is coming to Saxon Briton.As one kingdom after another falls to the savage might of the High King, Cerdic of Wessex, only one family dares to stand up to him — The...
• Blog Tour And Giveaway ~ Falling Pomegranate Seeds: The Duty of Daughters, by Wendy J. Dunn
  on Dec 2, 2016 in Blog Tour Guest post Historical Fiction Spotlight
  Available on Amazon UK, Amazon USand Amazon AustraliaA tale of mothers and daughters, power, intrigue, death, love, and redemption. In the end, Falling Pomegranate Seedssings a song of friendship and life.I started writing Falling Pomegranate Seeds:...
• Guest Post by Maria Hall, author of Reparation: A spiritual Journey
  on Dec 1, 2016 in Guest post
  Available from Amazon UK,  Amazon US and Amazon AustraliaI never thought I’d ever share my past with anyone, not fully, because it contained a secret that belonged to me alone. But a new relationship changed that resolve and, in time, led...
• Crown of Blood: The Deadly Inheritance of Lady Jane Grey, by Nicola Tallis
  on Nov 3, 2016
  New on Amazon UK and Amazon USGood people, I am come hither to die, and by a law I am condemned to the same.These were the words uttered by the seventeen-year-old Lady Jane Grey as she stood on the scaffold awaiting death on a cold Feb...
• Book Launch ~ The Autumn Throne (Eleanor of Aquitaine trilogy) by Elizabeth Chadwick
  on Aug 31, 2016 in Book Launch Historical Fiction
  New on Amazon UK and Amazon USEngland, 1176:  Imprisoned by her husband, King Henry II, Eleanor of Aquitaine, Queen of England, refuses to let her powerful husband bully her into submission, even as he forces her away from her children and her b...

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