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Sep 12, 2024 | 
crimereads.com | Susan Stokes-Chapman
If one were to say to any British historian the term ‘Hellfire Club’ they would recognise it instantly, for it was a term synonymous with aristocratic bad-boys (or girls, in some more particular cases!) in the eighteenth-century, all out to indulge in a bit of illicit fun away from the prying and judgemental eyes of reputable society.
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Sep 8, 2024 | 
redcarpetcrash.com | Ragnar Jonasson |Bill O’Reilly |Martin Dugard |Susan Stokes-Chapman
The book is in stores on Tuesday, September 10th from Minotaur. Click on the link to buy a copy. https://amzn.to/3Wsv1Pr1983At a former sanatorium in the north of Iceland, now a hospital ward, an old nurse, Yrsa, is found murdered. Detective Hulda Hermannsdottir and her boss, Sverrir, are sent to investigate her death.
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Sep 8, 2024 | 
redcarpetcrash.com | Aimie Runyan |Bill O’Reilly |Martin Dugard |Susan Stokes-Chapman
In stores on Tuesday, September 10th form William Morrow Paperbacks. Click on the link to buy a copy. https://amzn.to/3VFn8qLClaire Eiffel, the beautiful, brilliant eldest daughter of the illustrious architect Gustave Eiffel, is doted upon with an education envied by many sons of the upper classes, and entirely out of the reach of most daughters. Claire’s idyllic childhood ends abruptly when, at fourteen, her mother passes away.
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Sep 8, 2024 | 
redcarpetcrash.com | Bill O’Reilly |Martin Dugard |Susan Stokes-Chapman |Ragnar Jonasson
The book is in stores on Tuesday, September 10th from Putnam. Click on the link to buy a copy. https://amzn.to/3W3tGQiHenry is a brilliant engineer who, after untold hours spent in his home lab, has achieved the breakthrough of his career—he’s created an artificially intelligent consciousness. He calls the half-formed robot William. No one knows about William.
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Aug 1, 2024 | 
the-history-girls.blogspot.com | Susan Stokes-Chapman
‘To understand it,’ Linette begins, ‘you must know our history. Many of the Welsh estates have dwindled dreadfully in recent years, to the detriment of those who relied on the landowners for their care. I’m sure you’ve noticed there’s little to entertain here – many of the gentry took to the cities. As a consequence they left their estates under the care of agents who leeched money from tenants and the land into the purses of their employers, who then squandered it.
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Apr 17, 2024 | 
waterstones.com | Susan Stokes-Chapman |Monica Hanna
Meirionydd, 1783. Henry Talbot has been dismissed from his post at a prestigious London hospital. The only job he can find is as a physician in the backwaters of Wales where he can't speak the language, belief in myth and magic is rife, and the villagers treat him with bewildering suspicion. When Henry discovers his predecessor died under mysterious circumstances, he is determined to find answers. Linette Tresilian, the unconventional mistress of Plas Helyg, lives a lonely life.
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Feb 1, 2024 | 
the-history-girls.blogspot.com | Susan Stokes-Chapman
It exercises the office of the zephyrs, and cools the glowing breast. It saves the blush of modesty by showing all we wish to see, yet hiding all that we desire to conceal. It serves the purpose of a mask, covering the face that would remain unknown. It keeps off the rude beams of the uncourtly sun ... or from the fiercest ravage saves the brilliant eye and blooming cheek.
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Jan 30, 2024 | 
womensprize.com | Madeline Miller |Kamila Shamsie |Susan Stokes-Chapman |Margaret Atwood
The Song of Achillesby Madeline Miller Find out more Winner of the Women’s Prize for fiction 2012We are all familiar with Achilles – particularly with his heel. The name Patroclus is less well-known. In The Song of Achilles, however, Madeline Miller assigns the leading role to Patroclus, a young prince exiled to Phthia. Patroclus and Achilles strike up a friendship and as time passes, their relationship transforms into love.
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Oct 12, 2023 | 
penguin.co.uk | Susan Stokes-Chapman
There's something mysterious about the village of Penhelyg. Will unlocking its truth bring light or darkness? Meirionydd, 1783. Henry Talbot has been dismissed from his post at a prestigious London hospital. The only job he can find is as a physician in the backwaters of Wales where he can't speak the language, belief in myth and magic is rife, and the villagers treat him with bewildering suspicion.
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Mar 3, 2023 | 
okcfriday.com | Susan Stokes-Chapman
Pandoraa historical novel By Susan Stokes-Chapman
• • • • •The suspenseful novel Pandora is a mixture of all things that make a great mystery of the 18th Century, that fascinating romantic era of history. Characters tell their haunting story in a novel of three parts.
