Review by Leslie H. Nicoll
False Colors, by Alex Beecroft, is one of two books recently released by Running Press in their new line of m/m historicals (the other is Trangressions, by Erastes). Two more books are scheduled to be released in the third quarter of 2009. I have read both False Colors and Transgressions and [...]
Filed under: 18th Century, Age of Sail, Alex Beecroft, Leslie H Nicoll, Reviews, five stars | 9 Comments »
Nathaniel, or Natty as his family calls him, is a young man at a crossroads. His mother wants him to spend time with her family, far better off than his father, who is a poor vicar. His father would rather he do just about anything else, and his cousins have no interest in getting to [...]
Filed under: 19th Century, 4½ Stars, Alex Beecroft, England, Fiction, Hayden Thorne, Reviews, YA | Leave a Comment »
When cousins Sean and Patrick McConaghy set sail from Ireland in 1820 to settle in the wilderness of Upper Canada, they have no idea what obstacles and opportunities await them in this new land. Sean and Patrick know little about clearing land, building a shelter and farming. But with hard work [...]
Filed under: 19th Century, 4 stars, Alex Beecroft, Fiction, Reviews | 2 Comments »
Ethan Jones came to France long before the war started. He loved Paris—the lively cafés, the easy friendships with the artists and writers and whores. When the Germans invade France, everything changes.
Two years after he joins the Resistance, Ethan takes an assignment in occupied northern France. The objective: Team [...]
Filed under: Alex Beecroft, Fiction, Reviews, World War II, three stars | 1 Comment »
Ariston is an athlete who dreams of fame and fortune and the chance to open his own Palaestra someday. Iason is an aliptes (masseuse) who dreams of winning the heart of Ariston. Can they overcome the competition of rival athletes and the caprice of fickle gods and attain their hearts’ desires?
This [...]
Filed under: 4 stars, Alex Beecroft, Ancient Greece, Fiction, Reviews | 1 Comment »
Raised in the city of Capua, renowned for its gladiator training grounds—Lucius, a young patrician, is unprepared for the obsessive desire that almost overwhelms him when he first sees Callistus, a captive Gaul condemned to a life, and probable death, in the arena. Unsuccessful in his attempt to buy Callistus and save him from a [...]
Filed under: 4 stars, Alex Beecroft, Ancient Rome, Fiction, J P Bowie, Reviews | Tagged: gay historical fiction, m/m | 2 Comments »
Captured by the aggressive pirate captain of a Barbary corsair ship off the North African coast in the latter half of the eighteenth century, David Jordan faces a life of slavery of the worst kind when he is taken to the specialist markets of Tripoli . However, the enigmatic man who [...]
Filed under: 18th Century, 3½ Stars, Alex Beecroft, Fiction, Phaze, Reviews, Stevie Woods, ebook, pirates | 3 Comments »
A nice bonus for you today as Insubordination is a free-read and can be found here at Linden Bay
For the sake of their lives and careers, Josh and Peter agreed to put their need for one another behind them. But then a luxurious and sensual dinner together becomes foreplay, leading Josh to an act of [...]
Filed under: 18th Century, Age of Sail, Alex Beecroft, Fiction, Reviews, ebook, five stars, free read | Tagged: Age of Sail, Alex Beecroft, free read, gay historical romance | 1 Comment »
A Three novella anthology from Cheyenne Publishing
Featuring:
Aftermath by Charlie Cochrane
Gentleman’s Gentleman by Lee Rowan
Hard and Fast by Erastes
Expectations riding on young Englishmen are immense; for those who’ve something to hide, those expectations could prove overwhelming.
Aftermath
When shy Edward Easterby first sees the popular Hugo Lamont, he’s both envious of the man’s social skills and ashamed [...]
Filed under: 1920's, 19th Century, Alex Beecroft, Anthology, Charlie Cochrane, Erastes, Lee Rowan, Regency, Reviews, Victorian, five stars, novella | 4 Comments »
Devlin Montebanc knows that a Victorian man needs a place to go, some place he can be at ease, enjoying his port, his cigars, and some special male companionship. That’s why he maintains the Hyacinth Club, a traditional men’s club with a twist.
The sophisticated men of the Hyacinth Club find their [...]
Filed under: Alex Beecroft, Reviews, Victorian, three stars | 6 Comments »
Poetry drew them together. Forbidden love bound their hearts.
A student of letters, Micah Yardley wants one thing: To meet Jefferson Dering, a poet he’s long admired from afar. After hearing his idol speak at Harvard, Micah travels to Jefferson’s home in Wroxham, entertaining visions of discussing poetry over dinner and drinks. What he experiences exceeds [...]
Filed under: 19th Century, 4½ Stars, Alex Beecroft, Fiction, Reviews, ebook | 1 Comment »
Blurb from Naomi Brooks’ site here:
Kestrel on the Horizon” is the first in a projected series of pirate novels. Nathaniel Collins never expected to be a slaveholder. But the sad blue eyes of the man on the block spurred him to an impulse purchase. Adlai had expected to inherit his white father’s estate, not be [...]
Filed under: 17th Century, 18th Century, 19th Century, 3½ Stars, Alex Beecroft, Fiction, Reviews, ebook, pirates | 5 Comments »
From the Blurb: Fortunato is a mute lad, making his way in the shadowy world of Renaissance Venice. Angelo is the scribe charged with his education in reading and writing, all at the order of the mysterious Master Riccio. These reluctant allies come to know each other better than anyone could imagine and as Fortunato [...]
Filed under: 15th Century, 3½ Stars, Alex Beecroft, Fiction, Italy, Reviews, ebook | Leave a Comment »
From the Blurb:
As political unrest swirls in the palace of Tutankhamun, Commander Thabit, a Warrior of Amun-Ra, is eager for a stolen moment with his lover, the royal scribe, Akil. Leading his men to the border to face an unfamiliar tribe of renegades, Thabit isn’t sure when he’ll return home to Thebes…or his beloved again.
Review [...]
Filed under: Alex Beecroft, Ancient Egypt, Fiction, Reviews, three stars | 2 Comments »
It’s 1943 and the world is at war. Reporter Nathan Doyle is just back from the European Theater when he’s asked to cover the murder of a society blackmailer–a man who, Homicide Detective Matthew Spain believes, Nathan had every reason to want dead.
Review by Alex Beecroft
It is 1943. When the body of a [...]
Filed under: 1940's, 4½ Stars, Alex Beecroft, Fiction, Reviews | 6 Comments »
Review by Alex Beecroft
This is not a novel at all, but a collection of three long short stories. (Or perhaps a short story and two novellas). The three are ‘The Hellfire Club’, ‘The Succubus’, and ‘The Haunted Soldier’. The Hellfire Club is set before ‘Lord John and the Private Matter’ and sees John investigating the [...]
Filed under: 18th Century, 4½ Stars, Alex Beecroft, Jacobite, Reviews | 5 Comments »
Review by Erastes
From the blurb: “Ambitious and handsome, Joshua Andrews had always valued his life too much to take unnecessary risks. Then he laid eyes on the elegant picture of perfection that is Peter Kenyon.
Soon to be promoted to captain, Peter Kenyon is the darling of the Bermuda garrison. With a string of successes [...]
Filed under: 4½ Stars, Age of Sail, Alex Beecroft, Erastes, Fiction, Reviews | 12 Comments »
Subtitle: Book One of the Dragon’s Disciple trilogy
Review by Alex Beecroft
Review: Toshiro Itou is an ambitious young man in 19th Century California. His mother sent him to a father he never knew so that she could pursue her own ambitions with her powerful lover. Bitter and rebellious, when he chances to meet the top ranking [...]
Filed under: 19th Century, 4 stars, Alex Beecroft, Fiction, ebook | Leave a Comment »
Review by Alex Beecroft
First published in 1992 by GMP Books. A Second, Revised and Enlarged edition published in October 2006 by Chalfont Press (Tempus Publishing, UK).
Available through Amazon, or via Rictor Norton’s site HERE which is a great place to go for a more detailed run down of the contents. It’s also a fascinating site [...]
Filed under: 18th Century, 19th Century, Alex Beecroft, Essential Reads, Resources, five stars, history, textbook | 5 Comments »
One of the reviewers, Alex Beecroft, has started a blog where your characters can be interviewed.
Here’s her blurb:
Some time ago a lady set up a blog for which people were invited tosubmit interviews with the characters of their books. She preferred to keep this as a space for m/f romance novels only – which [...]
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Review by Alex Beecroft
Kade Black Eagle is a bounty hunter in the Wild West. When he is shot by the man he’s pursuing, his one regret is that he never told his old friend, Warren (Ren) Hayes that he loved him. When Kade unexpectedly recovers, therefore, he decides to finally take the chance of telling [...]
Filed under: 19th Century, Alex Beecroft, Reviews, three stars | Leave a Comment »
Reviewed by Alex Beecroft
Lord John’s mother is getting re-married, and the change threatens to stir up more than one thing which should remain hidden. For a start John is in danger of falling very much in love with his new step-brother to be, Percy, a love which is distinctly reciprocated. But in a [...]
Filed under: 17th Century, Alex Beecroft, Reviews, five stars | 1 Comment »
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