Research – Kate Braithwaite

Monday bookishness – Book pairing

As a reader and writer of historical fiction, I always love the real history behind the…

The minute I saw the call for submissions for the Dark London charity anthology I knew…

Who reads audio books? Up until this week, not me. But with the big news that…

Blackwell’s Island Lunatic Asylum – a pivotal location in The Girl Puzzle – was designed in…

“Between the world wars, no sport was more popular, or more dangerous, than airplane racing. Thousands…

“From the great courts, glittering palaces, and war-ravaged battlefields of the seventeenth century comes the story…

“In The Butchering Art, the historian Lindsey Fitzharris reveals the shocking world of nineteenth-century surgery and…

“The story of how and why a group of prominent and influential men in New York…

“Underwear — practical garments with a utilitarian function or body coverings that serve an erotic purpose?…

“In Georgian London: Into the Streets, Lucy Inglis takes readers on a tour of London’s most…