Today I’m delighted to be sharing an excerpt from Debra Borchert’s novel, Her Own Legacy, as part of a blog tour hosted by The Coffee Pot Book Club. Her Own Legacy is the first book in Debra’s Château de Verzat series set during the French Revolution. Blurb Her Own Legacy (Book 1)A Woman Fights for … Continue reading Excerpt – Her Own Legacy by Debra Borchert
Author: Catherine Meyrick
My Reading – February 2024
The Touch by Colleen McCullough 'Your cousin Alexander has written for a wife', said James Drummond, looking up from a sheet of paper. My Life as a Jew by Michael Gawenda Over the years, some of my friendships have withered and died, natural deaths caused by change and a narrowing of time, but I am … Continue reading My Reading – February 2024
Anywhere But Schuylkill by Michael Dunn
Today I’m delighted to be sharing an excerpt from Michael Dunn’s powerful new novel set in the coal fields of Pennsylvania, Anywhere but Schuylkill, as part of a blog tour hosted by The Coffee Pot Book Club. Blurb In 1877, twenty Irish coal miners hanged for a terrorist conspiracy that never occurred. Anywhere but Schuylkill is the … Continue reading Anywhere But Schuylkill by Michael Dunn
Spotlight – The Trail to Crooked Creek by MK McClintock
Today I’m delighted to be shining a spotlight on MK McClintock’s newly released novella, The Trail to Crooked Creek, as part of a blog tour hosted by The Coffee Pot Book Club. The Trail to Crooked Creek is an historical romance set inpost-Civil War Montana and is part of the Crooked Creek series. Blurb Everyday … Continue reading Spotlight – The Trail to Crooked Creek by MK McClintock
Handy Household Hints – Keeping yourself nice
While trawling though historical newspapers recently I read, in amongst a collection of household hints, a particularly eye-watering recipe for a hair tonic (more about that later). At that moment household hints seemed vastly more fascinating than the topic I was researching so I went on a household hint hunt. Newspaper columns devoted to these … Continue reading Handy Household Hints – Keeping yourself nice
Wordless Wednesday – Recycling
My Reading – January 2024
The Road to Grantchester by James Runcie They are in the Caledonian Club, dancing the quickstep. Sidney is eighteen. Question 7 by Richard Flanagan In the winter of 2012, against my better judgement and for reasons that were not entirely to do with writing – much as I said they were – and which even … Continue reading My Reading – January 2024
Wordless Wednesday – Whiskers
Faces in the Street – Bestest Friends
Those of us whose households include furred members know what an important part of family life they play and if a family photograph is taken, they often take their rightful place alongside us. For children they are often their 'bestest' friends, especially when the child is in trouble for a misdeed. In the nineteenth and … Continue reading Faces in the Street – Bestest Friends
Catherine Meyrick 