An author I found by chance one day, Clare Darcy, is now one that I search for along with Jean Plaidy and Georgette Heyer, as the books are mostly out of print and hard to find–though the two former are being reprinted whereas Clare Darcy is not (that I’m aware of). Someone recommended her to [...]
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Author Highlight: Clare Darcy
22 August 2010, 9:31 pm
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25 Reasons I Love Robin Maxwell Books
29 March 2010, 1:35 pm
O, Juliet, Signora da Vinci, To the Tower Born, Mademoiselle Boleyn, The Secret Diary of Anne Boleyn, Virgin, The Queen’s Bastard, The Wild Irish
Anne Boleyn is portrayed as a sophisticated woman with ambition, but also as a young woman with strong convictions and great love for her child.
The Elizabeth I quartet is single-handedly responsible for [...]
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author highlight: Philippa Gregory
12 March 2010, 11:21 am
Controversy. I’ve been planning to do an author highlight post on Philippa Gregory, and since some of my fellow bloggers are still receiving pompously worded comments on posts that are months old, I thought the time was ripe.
Philippa Gregory introduced me to historical fiction. If it weren’t for her magnificent cover art, I don’t know [...]
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author highlight: Brenda Rickman Vantrease
7 March 2010, 8:01 pm
One of the most interesting medieval subjects for me is religious intolerance, the strife between the Catholics and Protestants, and basically the beliefs and practices of people from every level of society. Brenda Rickman Vantrease’s novels all cover these issues, and she has a new one coming out next month on the reformation during the [...]
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author highlight: Thalassa Ali
3 February 2010, 4:00 pm
This author came to my attention recently because, of course, my eye caught the beautiful cover of A Beggar at the Gate. Alas, it was the middle book of a trilogy and so I have not added it to my collection just yet. I’m going to keep my eye out for A Singular Hostage, however, [...]
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author highlight: Norah Lofts
12 December 2009, 1:52 pm
Norah Lofts wrote in the same era as Jean Plaidy and Margaret Campbell Barnes, and like these two authors, her books are being reprinted with lovely new covers. The newest one to come out is The Lute Player, a novel of Richard the Lionhearted. Red below for the book description:
“Beloved author Norah Lofts [...]
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Author Highlight: Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
3 December 2009, 4:48 pm
I stumbled across this author today and I wonder how I’ve completely missed her books! There is a 23 book series called Count Germain and the latest is titled Burning Shadows and comes out December 8, 2009.
Burning Shadows: A Novel of the Saint Germain
by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
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“Two decades strong, the Saint-Germain cycle is one of [...]
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Georgette Heyer
1 October 2009, 7:45 am
What Heyer novels have you read or plan to read?
I’ve read An Infamous Army, which is an amazing historical based around the Duke of Wellington, Napoleon and the Battle of Waterloo. The underlying story of a headstrong woman and her amorous pursuits is not the highlight of the book — I found that part [...]
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author highlight: Amanda Grange
22 May 2009, 10:37 am
Mr. Darcy, Mr. Knightley, Edmund Bertram, Captain Wentworth and Colonel Brandon have all written a diary and now it’s time for a new Jane Austen herione’s side of the story : Mary Bennet’s Diary! Amanda Grange has written this piece to amuse herself and her readers, but perhaps one day she may expand upon it. [...]
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author highlight: Eva Etzioni-Halevy
10 May 2009, 8:11 pm
I haven’t read many books from Biblical times (The Gilded Chamber: A Novel of Queen Esther by Rebecca Kohn and Lamb by Christopher Moore are the only ones I can recall), but I’d like to expand my knowledge of the era through fiction. Recently I came across two of this author’s three novels and now have [...]
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Hello, my name is Arleigh... welcome to my book review site! Here you will find author guest posts, book news, reviews and various articles on the genre. My favorite author is Jean Plaidy, of whom I have built a 
