Diva’s January Fiction Round-up
Gillespie and I by Jane Harris As she sits in her Bloomsbury home, with her two birds for company, elderly Harriet Baxter sets out to relate the story of her acquaintance, nearly four decades...
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Shortlist announced for Romantic Novelists’ Association’s Awards 2012
The RNA’s annual awards have set the benchmark in romantic fiction since their inception in 1960, and previous winners of the much-coveted Romantic Novel of the Year award include Philippa Gregory,...
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Romantic Novelists’ Association’s Awards 2012: Epic Romantic Novel
Novels containing serious issues or themes, including gritty, multi-generational tales are included in the Epic Romantic Novel category. [AMAZONPRODUCT=1906413738] Jubilate, by Michael Arditti (Arcadia...
View ArticleAn extract from East End Jubilee, by Carol Rivers
June 2nd, 1953. The residents of Ruby Street in London’s East End are celebrating the new Queen’s coronation. It’s a day of joy and laughter, a new beginning for a nation still in the grip of...
View ArticleFrancesca Brill on The Harbour
[AMAZONPRODUCT=140881482X] It is the summer of 1940, and for Stevie Steiber, a young American journalist in Hong Kong, the war raging in Europe is a world away. While longing to be taken seriously as a...
View ArticleAn extract from The Wonder Girls, by Catherine Jones
[AMAZONPRODUCT=1849838828] In 1928, a plucky young Welsh girl named Ida Gaze swims the Bristol Channel with the help of her best friend Freda and the inspiration of her heroine Amelia Earhart. In 1937,...
View ArticleAn extract from Empress of Rome, by Kate Quinn
[AMAZONPRODUCT=075538105X] Orphaned by Rome’s savage legions, Thea, a slave girl from Judaea, has learned what it takes to survive. She knows only violence until a chance meeting with gladiator Arius...
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[AMAZONPRODUCT=0755380584] Erica and Simon Dunmore have been happily married for fifteen years. The only thing that casts a shadow over Rica’s happiness is her failure to have a baby and Simon...
View ArticleAn extract from The Confidant
[AMAZONPRODUCT=1908313293] ‘I got a letter one day, a long letter that wasn’t signed.’ Camille reads this narration of events from pre-war France, certain that it has been sent to her by mistake. Then...
View ArticleFear in the Sunlight
[AMAZONPRODUCT=0571246281] Summer, 1936. The writer, Josephine Tey, joins her friends in the holiday village of Portmeirion to celebrate her fortieth birthday. Alfred Hitchcock and his wife, Alma...
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