"The more outrage the better. That way people will fear us while we are alive and never -ever- forget us when we are dead" ...

In the next novel from Nancy Bilyeau after her acclaimed debut The Crown, novice Joanna Stafford plunges into an even more dangerous ...

They burst out of obscurity in Spain not only to capture the great prize of the papacy, but to do so twice. Throughout a tumultuous half...

I've had this sitting on my shelf for a while and never really gotten around to reading it until now. Honestly, I wish I'd sat do...

I picked this book up on a bit of a whim when I was off sick from work. I'd had a really rough couple of weeks and needed cheering ...

Each of the Popes considered in this book, from the gentle hermit pope Celestine V to the degenerate Rodrigo Borgia and the emperor pop...

On a muggy August day in 2002 Alexandra Lind is inexplicably thrown several centuries backwards in time to 1658. Life will never be the s...

1685. King Charles II dies unexpectedly, and is succeeded by his brother James II, England's first Catholic monarch since Bloody Mary...

It's been ages since I've posted a book review on here so I thought I would delight you all and post one. I will warn you now tha...

I've said it time and time again, I tend not to read historical fiction because it normally ends up with me getting very, very angry...

I was kindly sent a copy of this book by the author Nancy Bilyeau and her publishers after winning a giveaway on English Historical Ficti...

I'm not gonna lie to you guys, I've been struggling to think up stuff to write about. Oh there are plenty of starter ideas, historic...

Before reading this, I had very little knowledge of the French Revolution. Indeed I still have little knowledge but reading this has done...