Historical Belles and Beaus

Today is the release day for my latest Regency comedy novella, Gifts Gone Astray . BLURB: A gift is a wonderful surprise. Or maybe not. At ...

 The Great Social Evil, as prostitution became known in the mid-19th Century, was brought about by the shift from a moral/religious cause to...

I'm so excited that my historical novel, The House of Women, is now released. Blurb Leeds. 1870. Lonely and brokenhearted, Grace Woodr...

I am pleased to announce my Victorian Gothic Romance, Trencarrow Secret is released today by MuseItUp Publishing. Isabel Hart is afraid ...

My latest title, Angels at War , out this month in paperback, is the sequel to House of Angels , although the story will stand alone. Again ...

There's something serious about olive-trees. Gnarled, ironhard, producing grey-green leaves and succulent salty fruits often for centur...

Grace Elliot - cat lover and romantic I recently met another English historical novelist on Facebook - Grace Elliot, and was interested to d...

Every era has its extremes of dress. The Sixties had micro-minis. The Roaring Twenties had flapper dresses. Georgian England had macaron...

  HOW TO TAME A RAKE Blake, Viscount Dangerfield must marry Wilhelmina Corbet, his cousin three times removed, or lose his inheritance. It ...

My historical short story, A New Dawn, is now available for FREE on my publisher's website. http://www.knoxrobinsonpublishing.com/bin...

As I wrote my ancient Athens mystery, A Pig in the Roses , I grew rather fond of the hero's family: Diokles himself, the determined but ...

A very fanciful news item made the rounds a few weeks ago: the discovery of the first gay caveman. When I saw the story, I figured the head...

Today at Historical Belles and Beaus we welcome historical author Diane Scott Lewis. Diane has a new historical release, Elysium, a story ...

During the English Civil War, a new tax on domestic consumption, excise, was levied by Parliament to pay for the war. By 1660, this applied...

I met Cynthia Neale in the historical fiction group on She Writes. Her debut novel, Norah , about an Irishwoman in 19th century New York is ...