Category: Historical

BCB: The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared @100YearOldMan

This month our book club read this book by Swedish author, Jonas Jonasson.  Definitely an interesting book! Synopsis It all starts on the one-hundredth birthday of Allan Karlsson. Sitting quietly in his room in an old people’s home, he is waiting for the party he-never-wanted-anyway to begin. The Mayor is going to be there. The […]

Blog Tour & Review: The Roses Underneath by C. F. Yetmen @CFYetmen

Genre & Subject:   Fiction / Historical / Mystery Release Date:         January 28, 2014 Publisher:              Ypsilon & Co Press ISBNs:                    9780615868363 (paper), 9780615883908 (Kindle) Pages:                    411 Synopsis It is August 1945 in Wiesbaden, Germany. With the country in ruins, Anna Klein, displaced and separated […]

Interview with David Ebsworth @EbsworthDavid

Today I am welcoming author David Ebsworth to StoreyBook Reviews!  He is the author of several books and his most recent book is The Assassin’s Mark which I spotlighted for you just the post down!  He writes some fascinating historical fiction and I was quite excited when he said he would let me interview him […]

Spotlight: The Assassin’s Mark by David Ebsworth @EbsworthDavid

Concept A Christie-esque thriller set on a battlefield tour bus towards the end of the Spanish Civil War. The facts – Franco began running hugely popular tourist trips to his northern battlefields while the Spanish Civil War still raged. At the same time, foreign correspondent Kim Philby, already a spy for Moscow – and ironically […]

Spotlight: Colorado Promise by Charlene Whitman @charlwhitman

  Colorado Promise Book One in the Front Range series – Historical Western Romance In this passionate sweet Western Historical Romance, author Charlene Whitman introduces Emma Bradshaw—a high-society young woman from New York, who is forced to move out to the untamed Front Range in Colorado and finds that true love can withstand all the […]

Cover Reveal, Excerpt & Giveaway: Innocence by Elise De Sallier

I am proud to announce the cover reveal for Innocence by Elise De Sallier… Watch for its upcoming release on December 17! Summary Ignorance is supposed to be bliss, but in Anneliese Barlow’s experience, it leads to poor choices and unnecessarily tragic outcomes . . . and there is nothing pleasant about either. Forced to […]

Book Blast & $50 Giveaway: The Hero’s Lot by Patrick Carr

  The Hero’s Lot Riveting Sequel from Christian Fantasy’s Most Talented New Voice. When Sarin Valon, the corrupt secondus of the conclave, flees Erinon and the kingdom, Errol Stone believes his troubles have at last ended. But other forces bent on the destruction of the kingdom remain and conspire to accuse Errol and his friends […]

Book Blast: The Portrait by Hazel Statham

    About the book: England 1812 Severely injured at the battle of Salamanca, Edward Thurston, the new Earl of Sinclair, returns home to his beloved Fly Hall. Determined not to present his prospective bride with the wreck  he believes himself to have become, he decides to end his betrothal, unaware that Lady Jennifer, for […]

Cover Reveal & $25 Giveaway: Speak Easy by Melanie Harlow

  Title: Speak Easy Author: Melanie Harlow Expected release date: July 22, 2013 Genre: Historical Age Group: New Adult Cover Designed by: Tom Barnes Design     Synopsis: July, 1923. The ‘20s are roaring, and twenty-year-old Tiny O’Mara is desperate for a little anything-goes excitement. But when her father is kidnapped by a mobster in […]