Today's exciting book post 2: Rivers of Treason by KJ Maitland.
It's the third of her wonderfully twisty 1610s historical mysteries and I anticipate bodies, intrigue and fiendishness. Lovely!
Thank you, Headline Books

Today's exciting book post 1:
A Bitter Remedy by Alis Hawkins, the first of a new historical crime series set in Oxford in 1881.
I'm hugely looking forward to this!
Thank you, Canelo

The 12 Books of Christmas: thanking publishers for proofs.
#12Books 11: Some ebooks I loved. The Walled Garden by Sarah Hardy; A Wild & True Relation by Kim Sherwood; The Blazing World by Jonathan Healey; The Whispering Muse by Laura Purcell; Needless Alley by Natalie Marlow

The 12 Books of Christmas: thanking publishers for proofs.
#12Books 10: Anne Boleyn & Elizabeth I by Tracy Borman.
A new way of looking at these two much-documented women, in the safe hands of an excellent historian

The 12 Books of Christmas: thanking publishers for proofs.
#12Books 9: The English Fuhrer by Rory Clements.
Starting on books I haven't yet read now, but I've enjoyed past books in this series; the premises are always intriguing and the pace is always fast

The 12 Books of Christmas: thanking publishers for proofs.
#12Books 8: Atalanta by Jennifer Saint. I've just started this and already I love it. The voice! The sense of place! It's going to be an 'I want to read it all, now, but I can't bear to finish it' book

The 12 Books of Christmas: thanking publishers for proofs.
#12Books 7: The Lodger by Helen Scarlett. Set in London just after the Great War, it's deliciously spooky, with a neat twist subtly flagged, and an assured and alluring voice

The 12 Books of Christmas: thanking publishers for proofs.
#12Books 6: The Book of Eve by Meg Clothier: I do like a bit of historical magical realism. A rich mix with a mysterious book, religion, feminism, family secrets, and disturbing echoes of 1490s Florence

The 12 Books of Christmas: thanking publishers for proofs.
#12Books 5: Moving on to 2023 books with Sailor of Liberty by JD Davies: the naval war with Republican France - from the other side.
A neat idea, and an intriguing book well worth embarking on. Ca ira!