Holy Bones Holy Dust by Charles Freeman

Exclusive interview with author Charles Freeman and a review of his new book about how relics shaped the history of Medieval Europe **** 4 Stars

By Gabrielle Pantera

HOLLYWOOD, CA (Gosh!TV) 9/21/2011 –“I had become very interested in the fourth and fifth centuries AD and the fall of the Roman empire,” says Holy Bones Holy Dust author Charles Freeman. “It was just then that the relic cults began. What I found fascinating was the way these cults spread throughout the Mediterranean and then northwards into Britain and Germany as Christianity spread.”

Freeman delves deep into the subject of religious relics using original sources. Freeman’s book mixes (more…)

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Garden of Secrets Past

Exclusive interview the author: Anthony Eglin and a review of his new novel about a murder mystery in an English garden, a story inspired by the real life mystery of a cryptographic code hidden in Shepherd’s Monument *** 3 Stars

 

 

 

By Gabrielle Pantera

HOLLYWOOD, CA (Gosh!TV) – 9/16/2011 – “I knew at that moment that I had the gripping beginnings of a new story,” says Garden of Secrets Past author Anthony Eglin. On an old video tape he was watching was an inspiration for Elgin. It mentioned the mystery of a stone and marble edifice called the Shepherd’s Monument, one of eight Greek revival monuments constructed in the (more…)

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A Kingdom Divided

Exclusive interview with author Alex Rutherford and a review of his new novel about the Moghul emperors of India *** 3 Stars

By Gabrielle Pantera

HOLLYWOOD, CA (Gosh!TV) 9/09/2011 – “We traveled everywhere we could associated with the story from Persia [present day Iran],” says A Kingdom Divided author Alex Rutherford.  “Where Humayun fled… to the Sher Mandal, his observatory in Delhi where he used to climb to the roof to consult the stars (more…)

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Stuff Parisians Like

Exclusive interview with author Olivier Magny and review of his new book that gives an insider’s look at the delights of Paris, Stuff Parisians Like: Discovering the Quoi in the Je Ne Sais Quoi **** 4 Stars

By Gabrielle Pantera

HOLLYWOOD, CA (Gosh!TV) 9/1/2011 – “The idea was to put a bit of truth in all the Paris talk that was going on,” says Stuff Parisians Like author Olivier Magny. His book reveals how to be native Parisian.

To be mistaken for a Parisian, buy the newspaper Le Monde, fold it, and walk. Then sit at a café and make phone calls. Be sure to order San Pellegrino, not any other kind of fizzy water. (more…)

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The Bonaparte Secret

In the sixth novel in the Lang Reilly series, the mission is to recover a lost artifact Napoleon used to win battles *** 3 Stars

By Gabrielle Pantera

HOLLYWOOD, CA (Gosh!TV) 8/24/2011 “Somehow the two stories meshed,” says The Bonaparte Secret author Gregg Loomis. He’d just read Michael’s Chugg’s book about Alexander the Great’s tomb when he came across an article about Napoleon’s failed Egyptian campaign. Writing Bonaparte’s Secret was an unexpected technical challenge. “Maude, my self-willed computer, ate about a third of the book, necessitating a complete re-write of about a hundred pages,” says Loomis. “After I had replaced the missing material, the original reappeared. (more…)

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Where Shadow Dance

Exclusive interview with author C.S. Harris and a review of her new Sebastian St. Cyr mystery novel about murder and mayhem *** 3Stars

By Gabrielle Pantera

HOLLYWOOD, CA (Gosh!TV) 8/18/2011- “Where Shadows Dance actually twists together two ideas,” says author C.S. Harris. “The first revolves around some very real diplomatic skullduggery that took place in that pivotal summer of 1812, when Napoleon invaded Russia. Wellington began to turn the tide in the Peninsula, and there was a critical realignment of alliances that ultimately led to the defeat of France. But the premise that kicks off the book, when surgeon and anatomist Paul Gibson discovers that the cadaver he’s just bought from London’s notorious body snatchers was secretly murdered, (more…)

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Celebrating Georgette Heyer

Georgette Heyer’s fiction and nonfiction novels on Sale August 15-August 21, 2011 to celebrate her birthday.

By Gabrielle Pantera

HOLLYWOOD, CA (Gosh!TV) 8/18/2011- Georgette Heyer would have been 109th birthday on Tuesday, August 16. Heyer is considered the Queen of Regency romance.

Sourcebook  is honoring this most beloved author by discounting all 46 Heyer eBooks in their current catalog to $1.99 for one week starting August 15^th through August 21^st.

Also available is Georgette Heyer’s Regency World by Jennifer Kloester. This  is a reader companion book also for $1.99 from August 15-August 21.

Celebrate Heyer writing and fall in love with Regency romance, mysteries, historical and historical non fiction books as e-books.

Remember the promotion start Monday August 15^th, 2011.

I’ve included the full list of Heyer titles available separated by category: (more…)

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Dandy Gilver and the Proper Treatment of Bloodstains

Exclusive interview with author Catriona McPherson and a review of her new novel about female detective Dandy Gilver *** 3 Stars

By Gabrielle Pantera

HOLLYWOOD, CA (Gosh!TV) 8/10/2011 – “I went on day trips to Georgian houses in Edinburgh and called it a day’s work,” says Dandy Gilver and the Proper Treatment of Bloodstains author Catriona McPherson. “I visited Victorian mansions and Renaissance castles all over Scotland, dedicated researcher me, and everywhere I went the same thing happened. I’d ask a question of the guide.  And another. And some more and then they’d ask me why I wanted to know.  And when I told them I was writing a book, they’d say ‘Ohhhh!’ and go and get a big bunch of keys and take me round all the bits of the mansion or castle that the public don’t usually get to see.  For a nosey person who loves old houses, it was heaven.”

Dandy Gilver is a detective who is also an aristocrat. Dandy receives a letter (more…)

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The Magdalena Curse

Exclusive interview with author F.G. Cottam and a review of his new novel about curses and how they affect people *** 3 Stars

By Gabrielle Pantera

HOLLYWOOD, CA (Gosh!Radio) 7/28/2011 – “My sorceress Mrs. Mallory has been alive rather longer than her svelte and sultry appearance suggests,” says The Magdalena Curse author F.G.Cottam. “And she’s been about a bit. I researched Rupert Brooke’s sojourn in Berlin prior to the Great War. I did some re-reading about the Third Reich in the 1930s. I read quite a lot about Bolivia, where my protagonist is sent to join a Special Forces unit (more…)

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Mermaid Garden

Exclusive interview with author Santa Montefiore and a review of her new novel of mystery and love set in Tuscany and England **** 4 Stars

By Gabrielle Pantera

HOLLYWOOD, CA (Gosh!TV) 7/21/2011 – “I love writing mysteries where there’s a twist,” says Mermaid Garden author Santa Montefiore. “It gives me something to get my teeth into and is always a challenge to pull off. I wanted to write two story lines that link together, one in Italy in Tuscany and the other on the English coast of Devon. They’re beautiful places and very different. I love the sea. It’s very evocative. (more…)

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