Find me in the Stars by Jules Larimore #CoffeePotBookClub Read an Excerpt
Deborah Swift | Historical Novelist
by Deborah Swift
1d ago
EXCERPT FROM FIND ME IN THE STARS Chapter 4 Flee Like the Mist from the Tempest’s Might – Jehan 26 September 1697 ~ Early Evening Chomérac, France Immediately after sunset, Jehan and his companions moved out again in their usual order, this time on foot, following Massip along the tracks of a rutted farm road toward a river crossing near Le Pouzin. The soft melodies of a nightingale gave Jehan a moment to ponder all that had been revealed while at the farm. It was most impressive, what he had learned. An entire network of people and places existed throughout the realm that were available to ..read more
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A Matter of Time by Judith Arnopp #CoffeePotBookClub #Tudor #Review
Deborah Swift | Historical Novelist
by Deborah Swift
2w ago
A Matter of Time Henry VIII: The Dying of the Light – The Henrician Chronicle, Book 3 Review This is a superb chronicle of the last years of one of the most famous kings of England. Written entirely from Henry’s perspective, we watch him wrestle with the the killing of his former wives and his subsequent horror at what he has done. We also witness his slow decline from vibrant man to a hulk that is disintegrating before our eyes. The break from Rome  and its effects on the Church are fully explored with the battle between the old and new forms of worship playing out in a way Henry had not ..read more
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I’m on tour for The Shadow Network #CoffeePotBookClub #HistoricalFiction #WW2
Deborah Swift | Historical Novelist
by Deborah Swift
1M ago
Virtual Book Tour I’m on tour for the next moth visiting various blogs courtesy of the Coffee Pot Book Club! You can find all the links here on their site: https://thecoffeepotbookclub.blogspot.com/2023/12/blog-tour-the-shadow-network-by-deborah-swift.html On the tour you’ll find me talking about these historical aspects of The Shadow Network Hitler’s links to the IRA The Rushen Women’s Internment Camp in the Isle on Man The Aspidistra Radio Transmitter Tom Sefton Delmer and his ‘Black Propaganda Radio Station WW2 Intrusion Operations to fool enemy aircraft As well as my general research in ..read more
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Weaving Mama’s Dress through The Low Road – a blog post by Katharine Quarmby #CoffeePotBookClub
Deborah Swift | Historical Novelist
by Deborah Swift
2M ago
Weaving Mama’s dress through The Low Road  – a writer’s process Katharine Quarmby “The good wife had given me a grey dress, in a soft cotton, and I had hand sewn our favourite flowers around the hem, cornflowers for me, and poppies for George.” This dress, given to the “dear mama” of the main character in The Low Road, Hannah, is woven throughout the novel. It was to have been the dress that her mother had worn to marry her father, George, but before they can wed he dies in an awful industrial accident and so, instead, it is wrapped and kept, and becomes a memory of past happiness. It i ..read more
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Beautiful Ghost by Milana Marsenich #CoffeePotBookClub #20thCentury #HistoricalFiction
Deborah Swift | Historical Novelist
by Deborah Swift
3M ago
About Beautiful Ghost During the fall of 1918, the influenza pandemic crosses the nation and reaches the mining town of Butte, Montana. Marika Jovich, who wants to go to school to become a physician, works menial tasks for Dr. Fletcher. She feels useless as she tries to save friends and neighbors from the ravages of the flu. In the midst of the pandemic, she watches the town shut down, young and old perish, and her medical dreams all but evaporate. Kaly Monroe used to be a half-good woman of the night. She left that life to raise her daughter, Annie, and live and work with her long-lost mother ..read more
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Twelfth Cake House by Heidi Eljarbo #Historical #Romance #CoffeePotBookClub
Deborah Swift | Historical Novelist
by Deborah Swift
3M ago
Even a clever matchmaker may need a push in the right direction if she’s to find true love. When she’s asked to find a match for herself, it proves to be the most difficult task she’s ever undertaken. Mid-December 1796. Sixty-year-old spinster Miss Jemima Thurgood has three weeks to finish the preparations for her annual Twelfth Night party. In her position as a matchmaker, for over forty years she has assumed a grave responsibility. Luckily, she’s a shrewd observer of people, and many happy reunions have come about due to her exceptional talent for nudging kindred hearts in the right directio ..read more
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The Fortune Teller of Kathmandu by Ann Bennett #India #Burma #CoffeePotBookClub #wartime
Deborah Swift | Historical Novelist
by Deborah Swift
3M ago
Hampshire, UK, 2015. When Chloe Harper’s beloved grandmother, Lena dies, a stranger hands her Lena’s wartime diary. Chloe sets out to uncover deep family secrets that Lena guarded to her grave. Darjeeling, India, 1943. Lena Chatterjee leaves the confines of a strict boarding school to work as assistant to Lieutenant George Harper, an officer in the British Indian Army. She accompanies him to Nepal and deep into the Himalayas to recruit Gurkhas for the failing Burma Campaign. There, she discovers that Lieutenant Harper has a secret, which she vows never to reveal. In Kathmandu, the prophes ..read more
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Spotlight on Twelve Nights by Penny Ingham #16thCentury #MurderMystery #CoffeePotBookClub
Deborah Swift | Historical Novelist
by Deborah Swift
4M ago
1592. The Theatre, London. When a player is murdered, suspicion falls on the wardrobe mistress, Magdalen Bisset, because everyone knows poison is a woman’s weapon. The coroner is convinced of her guilt. The scandal-pamphlets demonize her. Magdalen is innocent, although few are willing to help her prove it. Only handsome Matthew Hilliard offers his assistance, but dare she trust him when nothing about him rings true? With just two weeks until the inquest, Magdalen ignores anonymous threats to ‘leave it be’, and delves into the dangerous underworld of a city seething with religious and racial ..read more
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Spotlight on House Aretoli by K M Butler #Venice #Medieval #HistoricalFiction #NewRelease
Deborah Swift | Historical Novelist
by Deborah Swift
4M ago
HOUSE ARETOLI A new release in Medieval historical fiction set in Italy 1365, Venice, Italy. For generations, the merchants of House Aretoli have profited through faithful service to the Republic of Venice. Despite being only a minor senatorial family, they’ve established a reputation for reliability, fidelity, and ingenuity. But the Aretoli are about to face the ultimate test. Caught up in a rebellion on Venice’s territory of Crete, young Niccolo Aretoli returns as a hero after saving the governor’s life and evacuating the loyal citizenry. Yet despite his new fame, not all is well in Ven ..read more
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Spotlight on The Matchstick Boy by Rowena Kinread #Switzerland #19thCentury #TrueCrime
Deborah Swift | Historical Novelist
by Deborah Swift
5M ago
This new novel takes place in a remote Swiss valley in the mid-19th century. It is based on a true story. The Matchstick Boy: Jakob, a simple farmer, is determined to gain justice for his daughter, against the odds. When his young brother, Josef, is killed by a rock avalanche, Jakob believes it is murder. He had seen someone on the mountain ridge, above the scree, before it began to roll. But who would want to kill a child, and why? Jakob suspects Ramun, the privileged son of the owner of a matchstick factory, but nobody takes him seriously and he is powerless to obtain justice. Thirty years l ..read more
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