Monday, 24 March 2025
✧ Book Spotlight ✧ Viva Violetta & Verdi by Howard Jay Smith
Friday, 14 March 2025
✧ Book Spotlight ✧ Muldoon’s Misfortunes by E.V. Sparrow
Thursday, 13 March 2025
✧ Book Spotlight ✧ The Absolution of Mars by T.F. Troy
Politics, Friendship, or Greed? Which of these was the true author of the Confederate conspiracy to decapitate the Union?
A student of the American Civil War, T.F. Troy has an award-winning journalism career spanning more than 40 years. He currently serves as Executive Editor of Cleveland Magazine’s Community Leader as well as the Editor of Ohio Business Magazine. He also writes features for Northern Kentucky Magazine and Dayton Magazine, among other regional publications. His work with those publications has won him numerous awards, taking first, second and third place in Ohio for Magazine Feature Writing. Troy’s work has appeared in major metropolitan daily newspapers including the Cleveland Plain Dealer and Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
Thursday, 6 March 2025
✧ Book Spotlight ✧ The Welsh Warrior’s Inheritance by Arianwen Nunn
Arianwen Nunn was born in Wales but now lives in Australia and writes historical fiction based on the Welsh kingdoms in the Middle Ages.
Thursday, 20 February 2025
✧ Book Spotlight ✧ The Many Lives & Loves of Hazel Lavery by Lois Cahall
In the heart of tumultuous times, amidst the grandeur of Victorian opulence, there existed an American socialite whose influence altered the course of the Anglo-Irish treaty:
Lois Cahall began her writing career as a columnist for Cape Cod newspapers and local periodicals, including Cape Cod Life. She spent a decade writing for national magazines (Conde Nast/Hearst). Her articles have been published in Cosmo Girl, Seventeen, SELF, Marie Claire, Redbook, Ladies Home Journal, Reader’s Digest, Men’s Journal, and Bon Appetit. In the UK she wrote for RED, GQ, Psychologies, and for The Times. In addition, Lois wrote profiles for The Palm Beach Post.
Lois’s first novel, Plan C: Just in Case, was a #1 bestseller in the UK, where it remained in the top three fiction for the year before selling into foreign translation markets. In July of 2014, her novel hit #1 on the Nook “Daily Deal” in America. Her second novel, Court of the Myrtles, was hailed as “Tuesdays with Morrie on estrogen” by Ladies Home Journal. Her latest novel, The Many Lives of Hazel Lavery, is a work of bio-fiction (January 2025)
Lois is the former Creative Director of Development for JPE/James (Jim) Patterson Entertainment. She credits her friend, Jim, the world’s most successful bestselling author, with teaching her the importance of children’s love of reading. As a result, she founded the Palm Beach Book Festival in 2015, an annual event bringing in NYT bestselling and celebrity authors. The event is for book lovers, nurturing the written word for the children and adults of southern Florida.
In 2024 Lois also founded The Cape Cod Book Festival, an annual autumn event that promises to be a new cultural footprint in Massachusetts. It will be for locals and ‘washashores’ alike – a magical place where charitably minded readers can rub elbows with great writers and thinkers.
Lois divides her life between New York and Cape Cod, although her spiritual home is London. But most importantly, Lois can do the Hula Hoop for an hour non-stop and clear a Thanksgiving table in just under ten minutes.
Wednesday, 19 February 2025
✧ Book Spotlight ✧ The Fires of Gallipoli by Barney Campbell
The Fires of Gallipoli is a heartbreaking portrayal of friendship forged in the trenches of the First World War.
Barney Campbell, author of The Fires of Gallipoli, was brought up in the Scottish Borders and studied Classics at university. He then joined the British Army where he commanded soldiers on a tour of Helmand Province, Afghanistan at the height of the war there.
Thursday, 13 February 2025
✧ Book Spotlight ✧ Murder on West Lake by I. M. Foster
Murder on West Lake
A scream shattered the tranquil air, echoing off the ice-covered lake, and Daniel's heart froze. He knew that voice all too well.
I. M. Foster is the pen name author Inez Foster uses to write her South Shore Mystery series, set on Edwardian Long Island. Inez also writes historical romances under the pseudonym Andrea Matthews and has so far published two series in that genre: the Thunder on the Moor series, a time-travel romance set on the 16th century Anglo-Scottish Borders, and the Cross of Ciaran series, which follows the adventures of a fifth century Celt who finds himself in love with a twentieth-century archaeologist.
✧ Book Spotlight ✧ Viva Violetta & Verdi by Howard Jay Smith
Viva Violetta & Verdi By Howard Jay Smith A Love Affair Inspiring the World's Most Unforgettable Operas: Experience the intense, l...

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Clement: The Templar’s Treasure (Clement, Book 3) By Craig R. Hipkins Clement & Dagena return for another action packed adventure. From ...
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Gwenna The Welsh Confectioner (The New Zealand Immigrant Collection) By Vicky Adin Publication Date: 24th July 2017 Publisher: Vicky Adin Au...
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Downriver By Jennifer M. Lane Publication Date: May 28, 2024 Publisher: Pen & Key Publishing Pages: 344 Genre: Historical A sulfur s...