A Shape on the Air by Julia Ibbotson Spotlight

Publication Date: January 8th, 2022
Publisher: Archbury Books
Series: Dr DuLac series, Book #1
Pages: 220 ebk, 366 pbk
Genre: Medieval Timeslip Mystery Romance

Book Description

Can echoes of the past threaten the present? They are 1500 years apart, but can they reach out to each other across the centuries? One woman faces a traumatic truth in the present day. The other is forced to marry the man she hates as the 'dark ages' unfold.

How can Dr Viv DuLac, medievalist and academic, unlock the secrets of the past?

Traumatised by betrayal, she slips into 499 AD and into the body of Lady Vivianne, who is also battling treachery. Viv must uncover the mystery

A Mischief of Murder by Helen Hollick Snippet Tour

Publication Date: 16th July 2025
Publisher: Taw River Press
Series: A Jan Christopher Murder Mystery – Episode #6
Pages: 140
Genre: Cosy Mystery

Book Description

The village Flower and Veg Show should be a fun annual event – but who added mischief and murder to the traditional schedule?

July 1973 Old friends and new enemies? Jan Christopher’s Aunt Madge is to be a judge at Chappletawton’s annual village flower and vegetable summer show – a chance for the family to have a holiday in the Devon countryside, especially as Jan’s fiancé, DS Laurie Walker, is still recovering from gunshot wounds and her uncle, DCI Toby Christopher, is

A Prodigy in Auschwitz by Fred Raymond Goldman Read an Excerpt

Publication Date: April 29th, 2025
Publisher: Historium Press
Series: A Holocaust Story, Book One: Simon
Pages: 368
Genre: Historical Fiction

Book Description

When Nazi Germany troops enter Krakow, Poland on September 2, 1939, fourteen-year-old Simon Baron learns two truths that have been hidden from him.

One, the people who have raised him are not his biological parents. Two, his birth mother was Jewish. In the eyes of the Germans, although he has been raised Catholic, this makes Simon Jewish.

Simon's dreams of becoming a concert

The Standing Stone on the Moor by Allie Cresswell Book Review - Blog Tour

Publication Date: 20th June 2025
Publisher: Allie Cresswell Limited
Series: Talbot Saga Book #3 (can be read as a standalone)
Pages: 531
Genre: Historical Romance

Book Description

Yorkshire, 1845.

Folklore whispers that they used to burn witches at the standing stone on the moor. When the wind is easterly, it wails a strange lament. History declares it was placed as a marker, visible for miles—a signpost for the lost, directing them towards home.

Forced from their homeland by the potato famine, a group of itinerant Irish refugees sets up camp by the stone. They are met with

Dagger's Destiny by Linnea Tanner Audiobook Spotlight + Giveaway (International)

Publication Date: October 2, 2018 (Audiobook Publication)
Publisher: Apollo Raven Publisher, LLC
Listening Length: 12 hours and 50 minutes
Series: Curse of Clansmen and Kings
Narrator: Kristin James
Genre: Historical Fantasy, Historical Romantasy, Myth & Legend
Book Trailer on YouTube: HERE

Book Description

A Celtic warrior princess accused of treason for aiding her enemy lover must

The Lydiard Chronicles by Elizabeth St John Spotlight

Publication Date: 2016-2020
Publisher: Falcon Historical
Book Titles: The Lady of the Tower (Book #1), By Love Divided (Book #2), Written in Their Stars (Book #3)
Genre: Historical Fiction

Book Description

Duty, passion, and power collide in The Lydiard Chronicles, a gripping trilogy inspired by true events. Follow three courageous women—survivors, strategists, and storytellers—who defy the constraints of society to shape their family’s fate and England’s future. Their voices echo through time. Their legacy changed a nation.

An Echo of Ashes by Ron Allen Ames Read an Excerpt

Publication Date: March 25, 2025
Publisher: Historium Press
Pages: 247
Genre: Historical Fiction based on a true story

Book Description    

An Echo of Ashes is a story lost to time, then found again in century-old letters that lay in a tattered box. Based on actual events taken from the pages, this story tells of when the Great War and the Spanish Influenza forever altered the lives of millions, including a family of subsistence farmers who also worked the oil fields of Pennsylvania.

Ella and Almon make their home in the backcountry. Almon and his sons work in the oil fields, just as their forefathers before them. As war and influenza break out, the

Shattered Peace by Julie McDonald Zander Spotlight

Publication Date: March 27, 2025 (Official book launch was May 10, 2025)
Publisher: St. Helens Press
Pages: 290
Genre: Historical Fiction, Time-slip, World War I
Book Trailer: HERE

Book Description

A forgotten diary. A century-old secret. A town still haunted by its past.

When former Navy Seabee Colleen Holmes inherits an old house in Centralia, Washington, she sees it as a chance to escape her own ghosts and start anew. But as she peels back layers of history within the home’s walls, she unearths long-buried secrets tied to a dark chapter in the town’s history.

Death at a Paris Hotel by Verity Bright Book Review - Blog Tour

Publication Date: 30 June, 2025
Publisher: Bookouture
Format: Print, e-book and audio
Series: A Lady Eleanor Swift Mystery #22
Genre: Historical Mystery, Cosy Mystery

Book Description

For Lady Eleanor Swift, Paris means champagne at breakfast, romantic walks by the Eiffel Tower… and her deadliest case yet!

Newlyweds Lady Swift and Detective Hugh Seldon are honeymooning in the most romantic city on earth. Clifford, her butler,has come along for the trip to make sure everything goes to plan for the happy couple. And Gladstone, the mischievous bulldog, to make sure it doesn’t!

But the pair are shocked when, just as they

FATE: Tales of History, Mystery and Magic by Annie Whitehead, Jean Gill, Marian L Thorpe, Helen Hollick, Alison Morton, Elizabeth St.John, R. Marsden, Anna Belfrage, J. P Reedman, Debbie Young. With an introduction by Cathie Dunn and endword by Helen Hollick New Release Book Blast

Publication Date: 16th June 2025
Publisher: Taw River Press
Pages: 244
Genre: anthology: short stories of history, mystery and magic

Book Description

If you had a crystal ball to predict what lay ahead, would you be tempted to use it? Or would you leave the future to the turn of Fate?

Tales of Variety. Tales of History, Mystery and Magic – some comprising just one of these popular fiction genres, others, a mild mixture of all three. Perhaps you prefer historical fiction rather than a story about magic or fantasy? Maybe you enjoy exploring new themes or prefer sticking to the familiar? Historical fiction can often inform, imparting knowledge of the past, of its events and its people. Stories of mystery

The Dutch Muse by Heidi Eljarbo Spotlight

Publication Date: 17 June 2025
Publisher: Independently published
Series: A Fabiola Bennett Mystery
Pages: 270
Genre: Historical Art Mystery, Dual Timeline, Historical Fiction, Dutch Historical Fiction, Dual-timeline Fiction

Book Description

A ruthless thief leaves a private Dutch gallery with a coveted seventeenth-century painting. The owner lies unconscious on the floor. Art historian Fabiola Bennett is on vacation in Holland and takes on the case.

Amsterdam, 1973.
It’s late summer, and Fabiola and Pippa join their friend, Cary, for a few days of sightseeing, museums, and riding bikes around the beautiful city.

Bess - Tudor Gentlewoman by Tony Riches Spotlight

Publication Date: May 2nd , 2025
Publisher: Preseli Press
Series: The Elizabethan Series, Book #6
Pages: 337
Genre: Historical Fiction/Tudor Fiction

Book Description

Bess Throckmorton defies her notorious background and lack of education to become Queen Elizabeth’s Gentlewoman and trusted confidante.

Forced to choose between loyalty and love, duty and desire, will she risk her queen’s anger by marrying adventurer Sir Walter Raleigh without permission?

Entangled in a web of intrigue, from the glittering Palace of Whitehall to the cells of the Tower of London, Bess endures tragedy and