Wednesday, 17 September 2025

A Profitable Wife by Kat Christensen



A Profitable Wife
By Kat Christensen


Publication Date: 27th November 2023
Publisher: Historium Press
Page Length: 322 Pages
Genre: Historical Fiction

Embark on a captivating journey with Kat Christensen's novel - a narrative that breathes life into the pages of American history.

Set against the expansion of a nation, from the aftermath of the War of 1812 to the era preceding the Civil War, this story ushers you into a world teeming with romance, jealousy, murder, and the unyielding spirit of survival. Meet Easter, a formidable young woman who carves her homestead from the 1830s American Northwest frontier. With the fires of Manifest Destiny as a backdrop, Easter's tenacity and resilience are tested amidst a young nation's political turmoil and societal upheavals. This vivid tale transports you back to a time where the foundation stones of the modern United States were laid. Witness iconic historical figures such as Andrew Jackson, Henry Clay, Blackhawk, and many more, through Easter's eyes-a testament to an era where politics, much like today, were intense and vehement. As Easter navigates through the unrelenting trials of pioneer life, readers are pulled into a world of passion and peril. Easter's journey from the Mohawk Valley to the American Northwest is one marked by love, betrayal, and the haunting echo of murder.

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Kat Christensen


Kat Christensen is a historical fiction author who is passionate about good reads. Rooted in a diverse heritage tracing back to the Revolutionary era, she is driven by a deep-seated curiosity to uncover remarkable stories of female ancestors that shape our modern identity. Kat honed her skillset in corporate information technology which she now passionately transforms into the art of architecting stories. Residing in the Pacific Northwest, she can often be found on urban and rural hiking trails, and of course, in cozy coffee shops.

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A Fighting Chance (DS Jane Renwick, Book 2) by Val Penny


 
A Fighting Chance
(DS Jane Renwick, Book 2)
By Val Penny


 Publication Date: 27 July 2025
Publisher: Independently Published
Page Length: 338
Genre: Thriller

In the second Jane Renwick Thriller by Val Penny, drug cartels collide as crime boss Connor O’Grady returns to Scotland to protect his turf from rival Peggy Cheney, newly released from prison.

DS Jane Renwick and DC Brian Harris are sent to Stirling, where Jane discovers two tragic deaths—a young man and a girl—raising suspicions of a single killer.

O’Grady denies involvement, but can a drug lord be trusted?

Set in Stirling and Gartcosh, this tense police procedural thrusts Jane into the heart of a deadly turf war.

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Val Penny


Val Penny has an Llb degree from the University of Edinburgh and her MSc from Napier University. She has had many jobs including hairdresser, waitress, banker, azalea farmer and lecturer but has not yet achieved either of her childhood dreams of being a ballerina or owning a candy store. 

Until those dreams come true, she has turned her hand to writing poetry, short stories, nonfiction books, and novels. Her novels are published by SpellBound Books Ltd. 

Val is an American author living in SW Scotland. She has two adult daughters of whom she is justly proud and lives with her husband and their cat. 

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Mary - Tudor Princess (The Brandon Trilogy Book 1) by Tony Riches

 


Mary - Tudor Princess 
(The Brandon Trilogy Book 1)
By Tony Riches


Publication Date: 1st February 2018
Publisher: Preseli Press
Page Length: 318 
Genre: Historical Fiction

Would you dare to defy King Henry VIII?

Mary Tudor watches her elder brother become King of England and wonders what the future holds for her.

Henry plans to use her marriage to build a powerful alliance against his enemies....

Will she risk his anger by marrying for love?

Will Mary’s loyalty to Henry be tested by the ambitious Boleyn family?

Based on actual events of courage, passion and adventure in the turbulent and dangerous world of the Tudor court.

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Tony Riches


Tony Riches is a full-time UK author of Tudor historical fiction. He lives with his wife in Pembrokeshire, West Wales and is a specialist in the lives of the early Tudors. As well as his new Elizabethan series, Tony’s historical fiction novels include the best-selling Tudor trilogy and his Brandon trilogy, (about Charles Brandon and his wives). For more information about Tony’s books please visit his website tonyriches.com and his blog, The Writing Desk and find him on Facebook, Instagram, Bluesky and Twitter @tonyriches. 



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Tuesday, 16 September 2025

Under the Sword by Luv Lubker


Under the Sword
By Luv Lubker 


Publication Date: 14th July 2025
Publisher: Historium Press
Page Length: 596
Genre: Historical Fiction

Join Queen Victoria's eldest daughter and her husband, future German Emperor Frederick III in this third installment of The Rival Courts family saga, as they climb the treacherous path to their dream of German unification in the Franco-Prussian war of 1870.

In the calm after the storm, Vicky and Fritz have it all: a devoted marriage, a growing family, and the promise of a bright future. But Fritz's Uncle Karl lies in wait behind the scenes, hatching his newest plot. A shocking outcome of Vicky's Royal duties will bring fresh doubts to Fritz's heart, and his fatherhood.

As personal tragedy strikes and shakes them to their core, Fritz is forced to lead the largest battle history has ever seen. One which could change the face of Europe forever.

Vicky's best friend struggles to shield her daughters from the sinister force that seeks to control them. The youngest shares her grandfather's uncanny ability to know the truth behind others' motives. But can she see the truth in him? In such a dangerous world, what heroic role will this small child play?

Can they escape the danger and betrayal that lurks in every corner as they travel to the icy expanse of Russia, the peaceful Mediterranean shores, and the vast Eastern deserts?

Will Vicky and Fritz's love and marriage survive a mysterious illness, or will Uncle Karl's conspiracies tear them apart for good?

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Luv Lubker



Luv Lubker began life in the Animal World, researching creatures great and small since before she can remember, and earning her degree in chicken psychology by age twelve. Not long after, she immigrated to the Victorian era, where she has lived half her life in close company with the Brontë sisters and made friends with Queen Victoria’s extended family, whom she now knows quite as well as her own kin.

Born in a cattle trough in the Appalachian Mountains, Luv currently resides in Texas’ Great Plains when visiting the modern world. When she isn’t writing or reading, she delights in preparing and savoring gourmet raw food with her family and exploring nature on long bike rides. Her special abilities include researching in seven languages and riding a unicycle since age seven.

Luv’s research delves into the unwritten stories that history left behind. Through unpublished letters, altered manuscripts, and deeply buried secrets, she reveals emotional truths concealed beneath the era’s refined exterior. Her novels give voice to the silenced, reveal what Victorians were taught to suppress and what their biographers chose to omit, tracing invisible scars that shaped lives, choices, and history itself.

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The Secret Sauce: An incredibly gripping historical 1940s mystery with a quirky twist (The Erdington Mysteries Book 3) by M J Porter


The Secret Sauce: An incredibly gripping historical 1940s mystery with a quirky twist
 (The Erdington Mysteries Book 3)
By M J Porter


Publication Date: 28th August 2025
Publisher: MJ Publishing
Page Length: 234
Genre: Historical Mystery

Birmingham, England, November 1944.

Chief Inspector Mason of Erdington Police Station is summoned to a suspicious death at the BB Sauce factory in Aston on a wet Monday morning in late November 1944.

Greeted by his enthusiastic sergeant, O’Rourke, Sam Mason finds himself plunged into a challenging investigation to discover how Harry Armstrong met his death in a vat containing BB Sauce – a scene that threatens to put him off BB Sauce on his bacon sandwiches for the rest of his life.

Together with Sergeant O’Rourke, Mason follows a trail of seemingly unrelated events until something becomes very clear. The death of Harry Armstrong was certainly murder, and might well be connected to the tragedy unfolding at nearby RAF Fauld. While the uncertainty of war continues, Mason and O’Rourke find themselves seeking answers from the War Office and the Admiralty, as they track down the person who murdered their victim in such an unlikely way.

Join Mason and O’Rourke for the third book in the quirky, historical mystery series, as they once more attempt to solve the impossible in 1940s Erdington.

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M J Porter


I'm an author of historical fiction (Early English/Saxon, Vikings and the British Isles as a whole before the Norman Conquest, as well as four 20th-century historical mysteries) and fantasy (now published under a different name).

I was born in the old Mercian kingdom at some point since 1066. Raised in the shadow of a strange little building, told from a very young age that it housed the bones of long-dead kings of Mercia and that our garden was littered with old pieces of pottery from a long-ago battle, it's little wonder that my curiosity in Early England ran riot. I can only blame my parents!

I like to write. You've been warned!

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Murder on Oak Street (A South Shore Mystery Book 1) by I. M. Foster

 

Murder on Oak Street 
(A South Shore Mystery Book 1)
By I. M. Foster


Publication Date: 31st October 2022
Publisher: I. M. Foster
Page Length: 503 Pages
Genre: Historical Fiction / Historical Mysteries

New York, 1904. When murder shocks a peaceful Long Island village, newly arrived coroner's assistant, Daniel O'Halleran, believes it's tied to a two-year-old case, but can he prove it?

After two years as a coroner's physician for the city of New York, Daniel O'Halleran is more frustrated than ever. What's the point when the authorities consistently brush aside his findings for the sake of expediency? So when his fiancée leaves him standing at the altar on their wedding day, he takes it as a sign that it's time to move on and eagerly accepts an offer to assist the local coroner in the small Long Island village of Patchogue.

Though the coroner advises him life on Long Island is far more subdued than that of the city, Daniel hasn't been there a month when the pretty librarian, Kathleen Brissedon, asks him to look into a two-year-old murder case that took place in the city. Oddly enough, the case she's referring to was the first one he ever worked on, and the verdict never sat right with him.

Eager for the chance to investigate it anew, Daniel agrees to look into it in his spare time, but when a fresh murder occurs in his own backyard, he can't shake his gut feeling that the two cases are connected. Can he discover the link before another life is taken, or will murder shake the peaceful South Shore village once again?

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I. M. Foster


I. M. Foster is the pen name author Inez Foster uses to write her South Shore Mystery series, set on Edwardian Long Island. Inez also writes historical romances under the pseudonym Andrea Matthews, and has so far published two series in that genre: the Thunder on the Moor series, a time-travel romance set on the 16th century Anglo-Scottish Borders, and the Cross of Ciaran series, which follows the adventures of a fifth century Celt who finds himself in love with a twentieth century archaeologist. 

Inez is a historian and librarian, who love to read and write and search around for her roots, genealogically speaking. She has a BA in History and an MLS in Library Science and enjoys the research almost as much as she does writing the story. In fact, many of her ideas come to her while doing casual research or digging into her family history. Inez is a member of the Long Island Romance Writers, and the Historical Novel Society.

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Monday, 15 September 2025

The Queen and the Countess by Anne O'Brien



The Queen and the Countess

By Anne O'Brien


Publication Date: 11th September 2025
Publisher: Orion
Page Length: 464
Genre: Historical Fiction

KEEP THY FRIENDS CLOSE,
THY ENEMIES CLOSER...

England 1450s

Queen Margaret knows she must protect the crown, and her son Prince Edward's claim to it, at all costs. It is up to her to fight for their inheritance, with her husband King Henry becoming increasingly frail. And as the Wars of the Roses rage on, Margaret's enemies lurk close, threatening to unravel everything she is trying to protect.

Anne, Countess of Warwick, has long striven to be a loyal and accomplished wife to the Earl of Warwick. But when she develops an unlikely alliance with the Lancastrian Queen Margaret, her husband's adversary, she wonders how much power now lies in her hands to determine the course of history.

Crossing enemy lines, the pair strike up a thorny friendship - yet in the midst of treachery and the turmoil of battle, can the two women trust each other?

Or is it only a matter of time before war drives a sword between them...

Praise

Fascinating, poignant and beautifully written. A story of love and the sorrow of war' CAROL MCGRATH

'An enthralling insight into the Wars of the Roses seen through the eyes of two powerful women. A superb read' CLARE MARCHANT

'A fascinating story of two powerful women on opposing sides of the War of the Roses. Told with assurance and knowledge of the period' ELIZABETH CHADWICK

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Anne O’Brien


Sunday Times Bestselling author Anne O’Brien was born in West Yorkshire. After gaining a BA Honours degree in History at Manchester University and a Master’s in Education at Hull, she lived in East Yorkshire for many years as a teacher of history.

Today she has sold over a million copies of her books in the UK and internationally. She lives with her husband in an eighteenth-century timber-framed cottage in the depths of the Welsh Marches in Herefordshire. The area provides endless inspiration for her novels about the forgotten women of medieval history.

Anne's new book, A Marriage of Fortune, the sequel to The Royal Game, the exciting story of the women of the famous letter- writing Paston family, will be published on 28th September 2023 in paperback.

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The Noblest Share of Earth by Nancy Blanton

 


The Noblest Share of Earth
By Nancy Blanton


Publication Date: 18th November 2024
Publisher: Ellys-Daughtrey Books
Page Length: 314 Pages
Genre: Historical Fiction

In the far north of Ireland lies a peninsula, Inishowen, renowned for its beauty, revered for its rich, fertile, and vital lands, and coveted by many for its strategic location. The marriage of the young clan chieftain to an English Viscount's daughter creates an alliance meant to secure and strengthen Inishowen's future. But greater powers on all sides-greedy chieftains of larger clans, foreign adventurers seeking land, and English planters determined to displace the Irish-cast ever-growing threats upon the hopes and dreams of the young couple. Nothing is certain. Survival no longer depends on muskets, swords, or the might of a single bold hero, but on something untried-something cunning, inventive, and in the end, utterly relentless.

Based on the true story of Sir Cahir O'Doherty of County Donegal, his wife Maire Preston of County Meath, and his rebellion against the English in 1608.

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Nancy Blanton


THE 17th CENTURY was a time of sweeping change for IRELAND, one of the most beautiful, mysterious and fascinating countries on our planet. Author NANCY BLANTON explores this often-neglected time period to reveal the strife endured and the spirit stirred among the Irish clans and families hoping to maintain their lands and centuries-old traditions. Blanton's goal is to produce a collection of novels covering the century from end to end, bringing to life forgotten but remarkable events that are especially relevant in that they are reflected in the struggles of other nations today. 

Each of Blanton's books explores a different time and circumstance in Irish history, and each has won literary medals and favorable reviews. In November 2024, Blanton publishes her 5th novel, THE NOBLEST SHARE OF EARTH, focusing on O'Doherty Clan's rebellion against the English as the plantation of Ulster was beginning. Her 4th novel, WHEN STARLINGS FLY AS ONE, is based on the castle owner's personal account, a chilling story of Ireland's longest siege at Rathbarry Castle in 1642. Her third novel, THE EARL IN BLACK ARMOR, follows the relentless track toward civil war and the execution of Thomas Wentworth, the Earl of Strafford and Lord Deputy of Ireland. THE PRINCE OF GLENCURRAGH won four prestigious awards, focusing on the personal circumstances of a young Irishman under English dominance in 1634. SHARAVOGUE (Also published under the title THE SNOW PATH TO DINGLE) begins during Oliver Cromwell's bloody march across Ireland, when a vengeful peasant girl is banished to slavery in the West Indies. 

Blanton earned degrees in journalism and mass communication. Her love of Ireland and focus on its history stems from her family heritage and her own unforgettable experiences on the Emerald Isle. She lives in Florida.

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The Price of Loyalty by Malve von Hassell




The Price of Loyalty
By Malve von Hassell


Publication Date: August 21st, 2025
Publisher: Historium Press
Pages: 379
Genre: Historical Fiction


In a time of kingdoms and crusades, one man's heart is the battlefield.


Cerdic, a Saxon knight, serves Count Stephen-Henry of Blois with unwavering loyalty-yet his soul remains divided. Haunted by memories of England, the land of his childhood, and bound by duty to King William, the conqueror who once showed him mercy, Cerdic walks a dangerous line between past and present, longing and loyalty.


At the center of his turmoil stands Adela – daughter of a king, wife of a count, and the first to offer him friendship in a foreign land. But when a political marriage binds him to the spirited and determined Giselle, Cerdic’s world turns again. Giselle, fiercely in love with her stoic husband, follows him across sea and sand to the Holy Land, hoping to win the heart that still lingers elsewhere.


As the clash of empires looms and a crusade threatens to tear everything apart, Cerdic must confront the deepest truth of all-where does his loyalty lie, and whom does his heart truly belong to?


A sweeping tale of passion, honor, and impossible choices-perfect for fans of The Last Kingdom and The Pillars of the Earth.


Excerpt

The Art Of Hunting With Birds Of Prey

And in September, O what keen delight!
Falcons and astors; merlins, sparrow hawks;
Decoy birds that shall lure your game in flocks;
And hounds with bells; and gauntlets stout and tight.
Folgore da San Geminiano (12th century)


Usually, Adela loved September. 

During harvest season, the air was rich with the scent of ripened apples. Other fruits were swelling on the trees. Her favorite were the fragrant golden green pears. She didn’t care for the drink that the monks made from pears called poiré, but stewed pears were wonderful. Best of all was eating the pears fresh so that the sweet juice would run down her chin. From the window in the room where they had their lessons, she could see carters trundle oak barrels through the town on their way to the cider mills. The sight of the well-worn oak encased in bands of iron made her think of the dense, pungent odor of wet leaves in the forest during a hunt. 

When the sisters allowed the girls to walk into the town on market days, they would marvel at the stalls overflowing with apples—red, golden, even green. At the abbey, some Benedictine monks, mostly occupied with brewing ale, worked on fermenting apple cider. The nuns complained that the monks spent too much time experimenting, using different types of barrels and extending the time of fermentation. Then, when they were finished, they tried out the fruits of their labor and would get drunk. The nuns locked the girls away during those days. Adela had to pinch herself from laughing at them. She had watched them sing and sway with abandon in the cloister hallway, their habits slipping and smelling strongly of spilled cider. Evidently, they enjoyed it as much as the monks did. 

September meant crisp mornings and clear days warmed by the sun. On days when she was not at the abbey and her father was at home in Caen, he allowed her to come along on hunts. Her father showed her how to fly her merlin. While everyone in the castle feared his harsh, grating voice when he lost his temper—and this happened frequently—he never once raised his voice when teaching Adela during a hunt. He was always patient when showing her how to handle her bird, when to remove the hood, and how to use the lure.

“Why can’t I fly a falcon?” Adela asked, enviously eying the peregrine falcon her father was training for Henry. She liked the bird’s nearly white throat above the mottled black and white belly and its stark yellow-ringed eyes. Her kestrel looked less dramatic, with its soft golden-brown plumage with black spots and black-tipped tail; she had named it Doucette for her best friend at school. 

“Children fly kestrels,” her father responded. “Falcons are for kings and emperors. When you are a lady, you can fly a merlin. That’s the order of the world. You should know this by now. Repeat the list for me.” 

“How often do I have to do this?” Adela protested. 

“Until you remember.” 

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Malve von Hassell


Malve von Hassell is a freelance writer, researcher, and translator. She holds a Ph.D. in anthropology from the New School for Social Research. Working as an independent scholar, she published The Struggle for Eden: Community Gardens in New York City (Bergin & Garvey 2002) and Homesteading in New York City 1978-1993: The Divided Heart of Loisaida (Bergin & Garvey 1996). She has also edited her grandfather Ulrich von Hassell's memoirs written in prison in 1944, Der Kreis schließt sich - Aufzeichnungen aus der Haft 1944 (Propylaen Verlag 1994). 

Malve has taught at Queens College, Baruch College, Pace University, and Suffolk County Community College, while continuing her work as a translator and writer. She has published two children’s picture books, Tooth Fairy (Amazon KDP 2012/2020), and Turtle Crossing (Amazon KDP 2023), and her translation and annotation of a German children’s classic by Tamara Ramsay, Rennefarre: Dott’s Wonderful Travels and Adventures (Two Harbors Press, 2012).

The Falconer’s Apprentice (namelos, 2015/KDP 2024) was her first historical fiction novel for young adults. She has published Alina: A Song for the Telling (BHC Press, 2020), set in Jerusalem in the time of the crusades, and The Amber Crane (Odyssey Books, 2021), set in Germany in 1645 and 1945, as well as a biographical work about a woman coming of age in Nazi Germany, Tapestry of My Mother’s Life: Stories, Fragments, and Silences (Next Chapter Publishing, 2021), also available in German, Bildteppich Eines Lebens: Erzählungen Meiner Mutter, Fragmente Und Schweigen (Next Chapter Publishing, 2022).

Her latest publication is the historical fiction novel, The Price of Loyalty: Serving Adela of Blois (Historium Press, 2025).

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