Michael Bennett is acclaimed New Zealand screen writer and director who’s debut novel Better The Blood has already sold for translation rights in six countries. It’s a nail biting crime thriller that is also a Trojan horse for complex, difficult themes. Hi there I’m your host Jenny Wheeler and in Binge Reading this week Michael […]
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Anita Abriel – WWII -Spies & Stolen Art
Anita Abriel is well known to many readers because of her international hit The Light After The War. Now she returns with another World War II story – part thriller, part romance, The Italian Girl. (In the US it’s called A Girl During the War ) Hi there I’m your host Jenny Wheeler and in […]
Liese Sherwood-Fabre – Young Sherlock
Liese Sherwood-Fabre has a fresh angle on Sherlock Holmes, featuring Holmes as a wily adolescent saving his family from disaster, acclaimed by critics for its deep understanding of Holmes’ life and times. Hi there, I’m your host Jenny Wheeler, and today on Binge Reading we hear about what happened before Sherlock Holmes became the world’s […]
Gill Paul on Encore
Bestselling author Gill Paul returns with a brilliant novel about Lady Evelyn Herbert, the woman who took the very first step into the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun, and who lived in the real Downton Abbey, Highclere Castle, and the long after-effects of the Curse of Pharaohs. Jenny: We’re in our second episode of Encore, the […]
Carol Wallace- Gilded Age Rivals
Carol Wallace has written more than 20 books, including the New York Times bestseller, To Marry an English Lord, which was an inspiration for the Downton Abbey TV series. Hi there, I’m your host Jenny Wheeler, and in Binge Reading today Carol talks about her latest historical fiction, Our Kind of People. It’s set in […]
Laura Frantz – Colonial Romance
Laura Frantz is a Christy Award winner and best-selling author of more than a dozen historical novels, with a special affection for 18th century America. Hi there, I’m your host Jenny Wheeler, and today on Binge Reading Laura talks about her latest romance called A Heart Adrift, an American historical about a Virginia chocolatier and […]
Deborah Challinor on Encore
Introducing Encore – a new monthly feature on Binge Reading – and Deborah Challinor, a top selling New Zealand historical fiction author and her latest book The Leonard Sisters, This is where we talk to authors who have already been on the show about their latest book… Nurse Rowie Leonard is pro war. Her younger […]
Katherine Howe – Vanderbilt Legacy
Katherine Howe is a New York Times bestselling historian and novelist and together with American journalist and author Anderson Cooper she co-authored Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty. She talks about the project, how it came together, and her own bestselling fiction on this week’s Joys of Binge Reading. Hi there, I’m your […]
Ella Carey – WWI Heartbreaker
Ella Carey and her epic heartbreaking World War I story, The Girl From Paris, kick off the show this week, taking us from war-torn Paris of the First World War to the fabulous fashion scene of 1920s New York. Seamstress Vianne believes she’s lost her sister in the war. She sees the rubble surrounding her […]
Stephanie Laurens – Romance Queen
Regency romance queen Stephanie Laurens has been in the top 100 Romance of the Year lists many times over. She is one of the most successful and popular romance novelists of all time, with over 80 works of historical romance, including 40 New York Times bestsellers. Hi there, I’m your host Jenny Wheeler, and on […]