Historical Fiction
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Lady Penelope is one of the most beautiful and sought-after women in Elizabethan England. The daughter of the queen’s nemesis, Lady Lettice Knollys, Countess of Essex, she becomes the stepdaughter of Robert Dudley when he marries her mother in secret. Penelope’s life is full of love and scandal. The inspiration for Sir Philip Sidney’s sonnet…
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Today, I am delighted to host one of my favourite authors, Alison Morton, for the Blog Tour for the 10th Anniversary hardback edition of Inceptio, the first book in the Roma Nova series. Alison brings you thrillers set in an alternative history world, one in which the Roman Empire has survived. An intriguing concept, I…
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In a beautiful and scenic area of Perthshire, Scotland, between the Aberuchill Hills and the Water of Ruchill, is Cultybraggan PoW camp, known as Camp 21. Initially built in 1941, it was probably intended to be an army camp but instead became a camp for captured Italians. These Italians prisoners were used to supply manpower…






