Review: The Kitchen Front
Last May, I borrowed The Chilbury Ladies Choir from my local library and absolutely fell in love with it. A sweet story about friendship and perseverance, set in an adorable English village during WWII, it checked a lot of boxes for me. So much so that I ended up buying a copy just to have on my...
Review: A Fire Sparkling
I'm such a sucker for London Blitz novels right now so when I saw the cover for A Fire Sparkling by Julianne MacLean, I knew I had to devour it. And...
Molly Miranda: Thief for Hire is Now on Audiobook!
It's a Christmas miracle! Molly Miranda: Thief for Hire, originally published almost six years ago (OMG!), has finally landed on Audible! A massive...
The 10 Best Books I Read in 2020
A finished reading 33 books this year. To some bookworms, that might not seem like a lot but that's a pretty good number for me and I'm proud of it....
Jill’s Top 20 Things of 2020
This is my 10th year creating a Top Things list. It's really too bad my list-aversary had to land on such a garbage year. Lists from the past, from...
2020 Highlights and Goals for 2021
Well. That was certainly... a year, huh? Instead of thinking about all the crummy things that happened over the course of the last year, I like to...
Scrivener to the Rescue!
I've been using Google Docs for writing my books for several years, all the while knowing that many writers recommended Scrivener. I knew it had a...
Review: Jane Steele
This book had me at the tagline: "Reader, I murdered him." "Reader, I married him" is the most famous line from Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë's 1847...
Review: The Book of Lost Names
The Book of Lost Names by Kristin Harmel was so difficult to put down. The novel begins with the reader meeting a headstrong elderly librarian in...
Review: The Secret Messenger
Mandy Robotham's novel of the Nazi occupation of Venice—and the Venetian resistance that fought against fascism in many different ways—is an...
Every Bookstore on Prince Edward Island (Updated!)
August 2020 Update: I did it! I have now been to every bookstore in Prince Edward Island! They said it couldn't be done. The fools. The fools!...
Sneak Peek: Kate Quinn’s New Novel
Kate Quinn is one of the most talented authors writing within the historical fiction genre today. Her two most recent novels, The Alice Network...
Review: Daughter of the Reich
There are affiliate links in this post. Read my disclosure policy to learn more. This review features some minor spoilers. Set in 1930s Germany,...
Jillianne Hamilton is the author of the Molly Miranda: Thief for Hire trilogy and The Lazy Historian's Guide to the Wives of Henry VIII. Learn more.
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