Cover Reveal: A Woman’s Lot (Meonbridge Chronicles #2) by Carolyn Hughes

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I loved the first book in the Meonbridge Chronicles series, Fortune’s Wheel, so it’s a real pleasure to be taking part in the cover reveal for the next book in the series, A Woman’s LotA Woman’s Lot is due to be published on 4th June 2018.  Do look out for my review as part of the blog tour running from 4th and 8th June.  I can’t wait to read it!

And there’s a chance to win ebook copies of Books 1 & 2 of the Meonbridge Chronicles!  Click here to enter.

Bloggers, do you like the sound of A Woman’s Lot? You can review it as part of the review tour on 4th – 8th June 2018! Just email brookbooks@hotmail.co.uk to register your interest and with details of your blog!

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A Woman's LotAbout the Book

How can mere women resist the misogyny of men?

When a resentful peasant rages against a woman’s efforts to build up her flock of sheep… Or a husband, grown melancholy and ill-tempered, succumbs to idle talk that his wife’s a scold… Or a priest, fearful of women’s “unnatural” power, determines to keep them in their place…

The devastation wrought two years ago by the Black Death changed the balance of society, and gave women a chance to break free from the yoke of chatteldom, to learn a trade, build a business, be more than just men’s wives.

But many men still hold fast to the teachings of the Church, and fear the havoc the daughters of Eve might wreak if they’re allowed to usurp men’s roles, and gain control over their own lives.

Not all men resist women’s quest for change – indeed, they want change for themselves. Yet it takes only one or two misogynists to unleash the hounds of hostility and hatred…

Format: ebook, paperback   Publisher: SilverWood Books
Published: 4th June 2018       Genre: Historical Fiction


Carolyn HughesAbout the Author

Carolyn Hughes was born in London, but has lived most of her life in Hampshire. After a first degree in Classics and English, she started her working life as a computer programmer, in those days a very new profession. It was fun for a few years, but she left to become a school careers officer in Dorset. But it was when she discovered technical authoring that she knew she had found her vocation. She spent the next few decades writing and editing all sorts of material, some fascinating, some dull, for a wide variety of clients, including an international hotel group, medical instrument manufacturers and the Government. She has written creatively for most of her adult life, but it was not until her children grew up and flew the nest, several years ago, that creative writing and, especially, writing historical fiction, took centre stage in her life. She has a Masters in Creative Writing from Portsmouth University and a PhD from the University of Southampton.

Carolyn blogs at The History Girls on the 20th of every month.

A Woman’s Lot is the second of the MEONBRIDGE CHRONICLES, her series of historical novels set in fourteenth century England. The first, Fortune’s Wheel, was published in 2016. The third in the series is well under way.

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Cover Reveal: Zenka by Alison Brodie

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As a fan of Alison’s last book, Brake Failure, which managed the unlikely feat of converting me to romantic comedy, I’m thrilled to take part in the cover reveal for her next book, Zenka. It’s billed as a black comedy/crime thriller/romance set in gangland London in the weeks leading up to Christmas. Zenka will be published in November 2017 so…the ideal Christmas gift!

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Praise for Zenka:  Zenka is top of my list for best fiction this year. If Tina Fey and Simon Pegg got together to write a dark and hilarious mobster story with a happy ending, Zenka would be the result!” (Lauren Sapala, Book Reviewer and Writers’ Coach)


Zenka_FinalAbout the Book

“She’s the one to die for.”

Zenka is a seductive Hungarian pole-dancer with a stubborn streak. When London mob boss, Jack Murray, saves her life she vows to become his guardian angel – whether he likes it or not. “How can you be my guardian angel,” Jack scoffed. “You’re only five foot two.” Zenka shrugged, “So vat? I am small, but a grenade is also small.”

Jack receives a letter saying he has a son, Nicholas. Nicholas is a wimp, bullied by his flatmate, pussy-whipped by his girlfriend and terrorised by his elderly patients. Jack is delighted to be a dad, but he has to tread carefully. People are out to harm him and those close to him. Can he use his wealth, wiles and tough-guy contacts to make a man out of this mouse – before his enemies turn him into mincemeat?

Zenka takes charge. She’s going to “bring out the gorilla” in Nicholas. And she succeeds! Nicholas transforms from pussycat to mad dog, falls in love with Zenka, and finds out exactly where the bodies are buried – because he buries them. He’s learning fast that sometimes you have to kill … or be killed.

As family ties become more disturbing, questions have to be asked: How do you tell a mob boss you don’t want to be his son? And is Zenka really who she says she is?

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AlisonBrodieAbout the Author

Alison Brodie is an internationally-published author. Good Housekeeping chose her debut for their Pick of the Paperbacks. The Scottish Daily Mail reviewed Face to Face: “Vain but wildly funny leading lady.” Alison has a criminal record for busking/disturbance of the peace in Piccadilly Circus; speeding in Spain and hustling in Athens. She lives in Biarritz, where she can be found speaking unnintelligabuble French.

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