Congratulations to:Aarti @ BooklustVeens @ Giving Reading a ChanceYou've won a copy of Peter Mottley's The Harlot's Progress plus a Special Gift!!Okay ladies, zap over your addresses to me! Thanks to

The Art and Craft of Writing Historical Fictionby James Alexander ThomRelease Date:  February 24, 2010SYNOPSIS:  The historical novelist has a responsibility to make his fiction both meaning

The Queen's Mistakeby Diane HeagerRating:  4 / 5The Queens Mistake “ Catherine Howard has to be the saddest story of all of Henry VIIIs wives, right after that of Katherine of Aragon. She was o

The Girl in a Blue Dress: A Novel of the Life & Marriage of Charles Dickensby Gaynor ArnoldPaperback Release Date:  August 3, 2010SYNOPSIS:  At the end of her life, Catherine, the cast-off w

Mischief and Repose John William Godward, 1895English, 1895 a2a_linkname='Passages to the Past';a2a_linkurl='http://passagestothepast.blogspot.com';

The Greatest Knightby Elizabeth ChadwickRating:  5 / 5Elizabeth Chadwick really outdid herself with this novel about William Marshal, son of the infamous John Marshal, the man behind the th

Katie Hickman, author of The Aviary Gate, has a new one coming out next year and it's set in one of my favorite reading travels - Venice!UK Release Date:  June 7, 2010US Release Date: August 17,