Left on the Shelf

  Shortly before the union of the crowns, the financing of the India fleets and the operation of the royal spice monopoly had become too muc...

Around the edge of the piazza the purveyors of predictions had ceased their trade. Mia had no clients; all business was in hiatus... The Blu...

  The silhouette of a church stands against the night sky, fragile waning moonlight casting shadows across uneven ground. A person stumbles ...

      *** The court is a dangerous place. There are those who thrust themselves forward, desperate to catch the eye of the monarch, craving...

Sun cracks the purple dark and for an instant, something less than a breath, the bay is a field of fire. Then it misted white. Swaddled like...

  The king's first child, and his great hope as the rightful ruler of the two island kingdoms, Prince Henry, was born in Stirling Castle...

  A hill wet with brume of morning, one hawberry bush squalid with browning flowers. I have woken and put on my work dress, which is near en...

  May 1651 I knew why they sent me instead of Elizabeth to Markyate Manor, though they thought I hadn't understood. When Ralph asked Mot...

Hello and welcome to this week's Tuesday Teaser. The place where we take a sneaky peek at a book that has caught my eye. This week we ar...

    As I sit at my desk writing this post with a cup of coffee by my side the weather is grey and wet outside. I do not dislike the rain, pa...

  Here in the UK Halloween is not celebrated on the same scale as it is in the US. However, I really missed seeing the children all dressed ...

“The pirates rushed with violent speed across the island, like hunting hounds… Some of my neighbours managed to escape quickly into the c...