Published By: Envelope BooksPages: 288Released On: 09/12/2021 When Gaia Champion’s soufflé fails to rise, Belle Nash – grandson of Beau Nash, Bath’s master of ceremonies – gets involved in a chain of events that challenges corruption on the city magistrate’s bench and sexual inequality in the dispensing of justice. ***** Thanks to Envelope Books forContinue reading “Belle Nash and the Bath Souffle – William Keeling”
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The Art of a Lie – Laura Shepherd-Robinson
Published By: MantlePages: 320Released On: 10/07/2025 That’s the trouble with stories, especially the ones you write for yourself. Sometimes you think they’ve ended, when they’ve barely begun . . . London, 1749. Following the murder of her husband in what looks like a violent street robbery, Hannah Cole is struggling to keep her head above water.Continue reading “The Art of a Lie – Laura Shepherd-Robinson”
Fulvia – Kaarina Parker
Published By: Manilla PressPages: 288Released On: 15/07/2025 She was a woman who took no interest in spinning or housekeeping. She wanted to rule a ruler and command a commander — Plutarch Fulvia is the daughter of a wealthy but unimportant Roman family. Raised in the countryside, she longs for a life of intrigue and influence.Continue reading “Fulvia – Kaarina Parker”
The Tarot Reader of Versailles – Anya Bergman
Published By: ManillaPages: 400Released On: 19/06/2025 Two women. An extraordinary power. In a time of revolution, betrayal could lie in the turn of a card . . . It is the early days of the French Revolution and, on the streets of Paris, terror reigns. Marie Anne Adelaide Lenormand is a young woman with an extraordinary powerContinue reading “The Tarot Reader of Versailles – Anya Bergman”
Love, Sex & Frankenstein – Caroline Lea
Published By: Michael JosephPages: 400Released On: 19/06/2025 Villa Diodati, Lake Geneva, 1816. The dark summer that birthed a monster . . . Eighteen-year-old Mary Shelley has fled London with her lover, Percy Shelley, and her sister, Claire. Tormented by Shelley’s betrayals, haunted by the loss of their baby and suspicious of her sister’s intentions, MaryContinue reading “Love, Sex & Frankenstein – Caroline Lea”
The Treasures – Harriet Evans
Published By: VikingPages: 448Released On: 12/06/2025 Every family’s story starts somewhere.Alice and Tom’s begins here. On the eve of her sixteenth birthday, Alice Jansen collects her treasures – the keepsakes, figurines and mementoes that help her make sense of her fragile family. But the next day her heart is broken, and the final treasure, aContinue reading “The Treasures – Harriet Evans”
The Mourning Necklace – Kate Foster
Published By: MantlePages: 304Released On: 29/05/2025 They said I would swing for the crime and I did. I wear the rope-bruise like a necklace. 1724. In a tavern just outside Edinburgh, Maggie Dickson’s family drown their sorrows, mourning her death yet relieved she is gone. Shame haunts them. Hanged for the murder of her newbornContinue reading “The Mourning Necklace – Kate Foster”
Cleopatra – Natasha Solomons
Published By: Manilla PressPages: 400Released On: 08/05/2025 Cleopatra, Egyptian Princess, grows up the favoured daughter of the Pharoah, hiding amongst the scrolls in the great library of Alexandria with her beloved slave Charmian, longing for the chance one day to write her own story. Then when her father dies, willing that Cleopatra rule with herContinue reading “Cleopatra – Natasha Solomons”
The Book of Guilt – Catherine Chidgey
Published By: John MurrayPages: 320Released On: 22/05/2025 England, 1979. Vincent, Lawrence and William are the last remaining residents of a secluded New Forest home, part of the government’s Sycamore Scheme. Every day, the triplets do their chores, play their games and take their medicine, under the watchful eyes of three mothers: Mother Morning, Mother AfternoonContinue reading “The Book of Guilt – Catherine Chidgey”
The Show Woman – Emma Cowing
Published By: Hodder & StoughtonPages: 336Released On: 01/05/2025 1910. With the disappearance of her mother and the sudden death of her father, Lena instantly loses any security she has within the circus she has known all her life. She is advised to sell the carousel her father cared for like a child and look for aContinue reading “The Show Woman – Emma Cowing”
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