Welcome to Behind the Pen. Today my guest is the ever-popular Téa Cooper, here to chat about her latest historical fiction release, The Woman in the Green Dress. When did you start writing and what was the catalyst? I can’t remember a time when I didn’t write, or tell stories. My mother branded me a … Continue reading Behind the Pen with Téa Cooper
Historical Fiction
Behind the Pen with Kate Morton
One of my top reads for 2018, without any doubt, is The Clockmaker's Daughter by Kate Morton, an author who has long been a favourite of mine. I am so thrilled to welcome Kate to Behind the Pen today. Birdie Bell is a departure from your usual character and yet I feel as though you … Continue reading Behind the Pen with Kate Morton
Pre-Release Book Review: The Only Woman in the Room by Marie Benedict
The Only Woman in the Room… About the Book: She was beautiful. She was a genius. Could the world handle both? A powerful, illuminating novel about Hedy Lamarr. Hedy Kiesler is lucky. Her beauty leads to a starring role in a controversial film and marriage to a powerful Austrian arms dealer, allowing her to evade … Continue reading Pre-Release Book Review: The Only Woman in the Room by Marie Benedict
Bingo! States of Passion by Nihad Sirees
Second last bingo for 2018 and I've managed to bring it to you this time without incident! The round I am checking off for this week is: A foreign translated novel My selected title for this is States of Passion by Nihad Sirees, translated from the Arabic into English by Max Weiss. States of Passion … Continue reading Bingo! States of Passion by Nihad Sirees
New Release Book Review: States of Passion by Nihad Sirees
States of Passion… Translated from the Arabic by Max Weiss About the Book: A hapless Aleppo bureaucrat is stranded in the middle of the deserted countryside as a violent storm sets in. When he seeks refuge in an isolated old mansion, inhabited by an aged gentleman and his sinister servant, he begins to uncover a … Continue reading New Release Book Review: States of Passion by Nihad Sirees
New Release Book Review: Arcadia by Di Morrissey
Arcadia… About the Book: A breathtaking Tasmanian tale of ancient forests; of art and science; of love and, above all, of friendship. In the 1930s, in an isolated and beautiful corner of southern Tasmania, a new young wife arrives at her husband's secluded property - Arcadia. Stella, an artist, falls in love with Arcadia's wild, … Continue reading New Release Book Review: Arcadia by Di Morrissey
Behind the Pen with Fiona McIntosh
I am thrilled to welcome Fiona McIntosh as my guest for Behind the Pen today. To publish an interview with one of my favourite authors is such an honour and I'm incredibly grateful to Fiona for taking time out of her book tour to indulge me. Over to you, Fiona... What provided the initial inspiration … Continue reading Behind the Pen with Fiona McIntosh
New Release Book Review: A Well-Behaved Woman by Therese Anne Fowler
A Well-Behaved Woman: a novel of the Vanderbilts... About the Book: OUTSPOKEN. BRAVE. BRILLIANT. FIERCE. Alva Smith, her Southern family destitute after the Civil War, married into one of America's great Gilded Age dynasties: the newly wealthy but socially shunned Vanderbilts. Ignored by New York's old-money circles and determined to win respect, she designed and … Continue reading New Release Book Review: A Well-Behaved Woman by Therese Anne Fowler
New Release Book Review: Shell by Kristina Olsson
Shell... About the Book: A big, bold and hauntingly beautiful story that captures a defining moment in Australia's history. Everywhere he looked he saw what Utzon saw. The drama of harbour and horizon, and at night, the star-clotted sky. It held the shape of the possible, of a promise made and waiting to be kept … Continue reading New Release Book Review: Shell by Kristina Olsson
New Release Book Review: The Way of All Flesh by Ambrose Parry
The Way of All Flesh… About the Book: A vivid and gripping historical crime novel set in 19th century Edinburgh, from husband-and-wife writing team Chris Brookmyre and Marisa Haetzman. Edinburgh, 1847. City of Medicine, Money, Murder. Young women are being discovered dead across the Old Town, all having suffered similarly gruesome ends. In the New … Continue reading New Release Book Review: The Way of All Flesh by Ambrose Parry
