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Blog Tour The Horsemans Song Ben Pastor  Please help me welcome Author Ben Pastor to Beadyjansbooks today as part of the Blog tour for his brand new book The Horsemans Song. The Horseman's Song is the 6th and final Installment in the Authors Martin Bora collection, however it is a prequel to the entire series so if you haven't yet read the others you could quite easily begin with this title as an introduction to this dramatic alternative viewpont of WW2. The Blurb Spain, summer 1937. The tragic prelude to World War II is played out in the civil war between Spanish nationalists and republicans. On the bloody sierras of Aragon, among Generalissimo Franco’s volunteers is Martin Bora, the twenty-something German officer and detective whose future adventures will be told in Lumen, Liar Moon and Kaputt Mundi. Presently a lieutenant in the Spanish Foreign Legion, Bora lives the tragedy around him as an intoxicating epic, between idealism and youthful recklessness. The first doubts, h...

Today is publication day for the new historical novel by Deborah Carr - The Poppy Field and just look at that delectable cover! As my contribution to the blog tour to help celebrate todays launch of this exciting new title I have a question and answer session with the author for you. Q&A with Deborah J: Hi Deborah and Welcome to Beadyjans books. D: Thanks very much for hosting me and my new book, The Poppy Field published by HarperImpulse. Deborah Carr. J: Q1: Firstly can you tell me a bit about The Poppy Field and what inspired you to write it? D: The Poppy Field is a novel about two nurses, one a contemporary trauma unit nurse, Gemma Kingston, who is suffering from burn-out after a personal tragedy. She’s desperate to find a way to forget what’s happened and travels to a rundown farmhouse outside the town of Doullens to renovate it for her father. The other nurse, Alice Le Breton is a VAD working at a casualty clearing station near Doullens in the First World War. She is esc...

Among the Branded – Linda Smolkin Today I am taking part in the Blog Tour for the new debut novel by Linda Smolkin, arranged by RandomthingsTours. My Review: Among the Branded is a very modern and contemporary novel with historical connections to the fairly recent past. In it, we meet Stephanie, a 40 something Mum who is a dedicated career woman juggling family life. This busy art director is planning a family day out, and ends up spending a day out at a world war 2 re-enactment day. Whilst there, she chances on a bundle of old letters she can’t resist buying. Little does she know they are going to draw her in completely and possibly even put her hard earned career in jeopardy. Even though time is one thing she doesn’t really have to spare she can’t resist a mystery to get her teeth into. These faded letters contain a real puzzle to solve at the same time as fostering an unlikely friendship. One of the letters really connects with her, it’s from a desperate young mother who is imprison...