I'm a sucker for a novel about a lady pilot who flies airplanes during wartime. (I've also reviewed The Flight Girls by Noelle Salazar and Kate...
Review: Glamour Girls
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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...
Three Black Explorers Who Made History
It's Black History Month! Who doesn't love a good tale about early adventurers and the lands they trekked? These three Black explorers defied the...
A Look into the Lives of Women in Communist Romania
This is a guest post from Gift of Diamonds author Roberta Seret, Ph.D. Thanks Roberta! Romanian women during the 1960’s at the time when my literary...
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...
Review: A Curious History of Sex
Even in a weighty book such as Dr. Kate Lister's A Curious History of Sex, sex and sexuality is a massive topic to cover. However, Lister manages to...
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....
Review: The Splendid and the Vile
There is no denying that The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz is an exceptionally good and...
Interview: Ian Mortimer, Author and Historian
I am an absolute sucker for social history books about everyday life in Britain. I have a whole shelf of these types of books by historian and...
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...
20 Virtual Tours of Historical Sites You Can Visit from Home
Like a lot of people, my 2020 travel plans were ruined by the pandemic. Virtual tourism has become something of a cottage industry since COVID-19...
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...
Jillianne Hamilton writes delightful historical fiction and historical romance featuring rebellious heroines and happy endings.
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