By Grace Hitchcock ** Publication Date 1 January 2020 ** Edyth is a quirky, orphaned socialite in New York during the late 1800s. She lives in her ancestral home with her Uncle Boris who has recently remarried. She’s as sane as they come, if not a little different. Edyth wears garish clothing and fences for …
By Thomas Wheeler & Frank Miller ** Publication Date 1 October 2019 ** Many times has the story of Arthur, Lancelot and Merlin been told. Arthur is nearly always the receptor of the magical sword that makes him the one true king. This time around the sword belongs to a girl, Nimue. Nimue is a …
By Hazel Gaynor and Heather Webb ** Publication Date 23 July 2019** Princess Grace was the princess of American film before she ever became the Princess of Monaco. The world was captivated by Grace Kelly, and then when Prince Rainier captured her heart, the world was captivated by their marriage. Meet Me in Monaco takes …
By Elizabeth MacNeal ** Publication Date 13 August 2019 (US) ** In Victorian London live twins – Iris and Rose. They work in a doll factory. Rose sews the clothes for the dolls, Iris paints them. Often the dolls are created to imitate a child, living or dead. Rose was struck by smallpox which renders …
Victorian Mystery #3 by Laura Joh Rowland ** Publication Date 18 January 2019 ** London in the 1890s is damp, dark and smoky. The perfect setting for a villainous mystery. Sarah Bain is a photographer, quite an unusual occupation not only in that time, but especially for a woman. Sarah works for the local paper, …
by Elaine Ambrose and AK Turner This book was FUN. Super quick read. The premise is that each of the authors met up with a female dead author to chat over drinks. Great unusual premise and fun to see how Ambrose & Turner handled conversations with dead women. Each chapter is a meeting with a …
by Diana Gabaldon (originally posted 29-June-2014) **warning: may contain spoilers – though I do try to avoid them** (sidenote – for those of you who don’t know, MOBY was the “working” title for this book. DG herself shortened it to MOHB (my own heart’s blood) , pronounced moh-bee, because the title was so long.) After …