The truth is, none of us are innocent. We all have sins to confess. So reveals Catherine de Medici in this brilliantly imagined novel abou...

It is that time of year (ie the end) where I need to share the stats for my reading year in 2010 or I will never actually get around to doin...

I am pretty happy with my October reading! 16 books completed, some good reads, some were ebooks, and a couple were a bit outside my normal ...

Italy, 1456. The Renaissance is in glorious bloom. A Carmelite monk, the great artist Fra Filippo Lippi acts as chaplain to the nuns of the ...

Adelia is back in this thrilling fourth installment of the Mistress of the Art of Death series In 1176, King Henry II sends his ten-year-o...

New York is one of the places on my one day list - one day I will get there! I have been to other parts of America but I haven't made it...

After a slow reading month in May, unfortunately things didn't really pick up all that much for me in June. Last month I attributed the...

The Alphabet in Historical Fiction challenge being hosted by Historical Tapestry continues and this time I want to focus on a manga series...

Today I am glad to be participating in the Classics Circuit for Georgette Heyer.  When I signed up for the blog tour, I was asked what I wa...

Not F for French as in someone from France, but F for French, as in Jackie French , who is a very prolific Australian YA author! She writes ...

October wasn't the best reading month for me, so I am relieved to have made it to 10 books read for the month. It didn't look like I...