As a historical novelist, I’m fascinated by the gaps in history, the silenced stories, the holes that riddle our past.…
Although Henry VIII is famous for abandoning, beheading and divorcing his wives it seems he didn’t enjoy ‘goodbyes.’ Each of…
Mark Antony, or Marcus Antonius as he was more correctly named, was known for many things: friend of Julius Caesar,…
by Erica Lainé Isabella had a gold matrix, or seal-die, which was used to make her seal as Queen of…
I’ve found that it’s easy to misjudge history, to confuse timelines from the relative luxury of the twenty-first century because…
Blurb In the 11th Century, when barren wives are customarily cast aside, how does Edith of Wessex not only manage…
by Mercedes Rochelle Like many of us, I first learned of Richard II from Shakespeare. Even though I knew nothing…
In 1846 William John Thoms, a British writer, penned a letter to The Athenaeum, a British Magazine. In this letter,…
Blurb As the French revolution ravages the country, Desiree Clary is faced with the life-altering truth that the world she…
Blurb The year is 1069. The Norman invaders are stealing the land of the English people, building castles to subdue…