Finalist – The Wishing Shelf Book Awards

Finalist – The Wishing Shelf Book Awards

Hot on the heels of its Bronze Medal award in the Coffee Pot Book Club 2025 awards, Lady of the Quay has been confirmed as a finalist in The Wishing Shelf Book Awards 2025. These awards are judged by readers, with two reading groups marked entries according to...
Bronze Medal winner

Bronze Medal winner

The winners of The Coffee Pot Book Club’s 2025 Book of the Year Awards have been announced, and Lady of the Quay has won Bronze in the Tudors/Stuarts category. The Coffee Pot Book Club promotes historical fiction. Its Book of the Year Awards is an international...
Lady of the Quay goes on tour

Lady of the Quay goes on tour

Next week, from June 11- 13, 2025, Lady of the Quay goes on tour and will feature on some of the best blog sites celebrating historical fiction. Thank you to all of the fantastic hosts who are taking part in this event. Full list here.
Finding new books

Finding new books

My list of ‘The best dual timeline novels you will ever read’ is now live on Shepherd.com. I love dual timeline fiction and read a lot of it, so singling out just five books that I’ve enjoyed for inclusion on this list was one of the hardest tasks I’ve ever had to...
Lady of the Quay Reviews

Lady of the Quay Reviews

The first reviews for Lady of the Quay are trickling out and so far this new novel has been awarded nothing but five stars by bloggers, readers and reviewers. The Coffee Pot Book Club calls it “an exceptional work of historical fiction” and a “mesmerising tale that...