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Please join me in welcoming Toni Mount back to the blog, this time celebrating the publication of The Colour of Darkness , the latest installment in the Sebastian Foxley Medieval Murder Mysteries. I love this series and have great appreciation for the way Toni truly transports her readers to the 15th century. Today, she shares some insight into eating, sleeping, and accommodations in 1480s London. Welcome, Toni! ~ Samantha Pies, Pints & Pillows: Eating, Sleeping and Accommoda

Several years ago, I read a book that has always stayed with me. Candice Millard's Destiny of the Republic remains to this day the most gripping work of nonfiction that I have ever read. James Garfield, a man I knew little about before picking up Millard's book, was astonishingly inspiring, and his treatment, first by his assassin and then by his incompetent physicians, was horrific almost beyond belief. When I saw that Netflix was releasing a limited series based on Destiny

My guest today shares an excerpt from his new bestselling novel, Cobblestones , which is based on the true story of immigrants seeking...

My guest today has written about an era of history that I wish we all spent a bit more time reading about. In Escape to the Maroons ,...