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18/04/2025

A wonderful review for Cupid and the Silent Goddess, by Alan Fisk, has published...

“...an excellent, free-flowing read with a view into the artistic world of Florence that is fascinating in its detail.”
— Mark Frutkin, Canadian Writers Abroad, April 2025

Cupid and the Silent Goddess by Alan Fisk. Page d’Or reprint 2022Reviewed by Mark Frutkin Alan Fisk is a Canadian who lives in the UK. His novel, Cupid and the Silent Goddess, is set in Florence, I…

11/12/2023

Our latest publication by John Ware…

The exploits of the Royal Munster Fusiliers (‘The Dirty Shirts’) in World War 1.

The World in a Sandbag

15/11/2022

The Ashmole Box, by Michael Anson - the trilogy is complete!

Out now 👇

Volume 2 of the Apothecary Green trilogy set in eighteenth-century Lichfield, England. Providential chance brings Apothecary Richard Greene to the aid of a terribly injured man – the victim of a mantrap on a nearby estate.

15/08/2022

“…meticulous, moving and often very humorous....”

— Historical Novel Review, Issue 101, August 2022

A Green Bough opens in the First World War trenches of France, with a young American, Daniel Wyndham, fighting with the 2nd Battalion of the Royal Munster Fusiliers and serving under the command of the aged and war-scarred Major Fitzmullen Brophy. Wyndham is returned, wounded, to an Ireland riven by...

15/08/2022

Jane Davis talks with author Alan Fisk about his writing and recent Page d’Or publication: Cupid and the Silent Goddess (2022).

An Italian historical love story set in Renaissance Florence: Alan Fisk introduces Cupid and the Silent Goddess.

20/05/2022

Florence, 1544. Agnolo Bronzino is commissioned to paint An Allegory with Venus …

Our newest publication, out now:

Who were the models of Agnolo Bronzino’s ‘Allegory with Venus and Cupid’? Florence, 1544. Duke Cosimo de’ Medici has commissioned Agnolo Bronzino to paint Allegory with Venus and Cupid. Intended as a diplomatic gift for King François of France, the Duke demands the seemingly impossible...

04/04/2022

Historical Novel Review Editor’s Choice - a wonderful review of Michael Anson’s The Bishop’s Grimoire.

Available from:

www.pagedor.co.uk

and Amazon

1766, Lichfield. Richard Greene, a fifty-year-old apothecary, surgeon and proprietor of an extensive museum of ancient artefacts and curios, is one of a party visiting Eccleshall Castle, the former home of a bishop of Lichfield in the 1300s, who had stood trial for witchcraft. During their visit, a....

27/07/2021

Dirty Shirt by John Ware

A story of courage and sacrifice. A forgotten chapter in Irish history.

“…a fascinating tale – fun, fast and furious – and it shows an aspect of the Great War in a way never attempted before.” — Irish Examiner

“Ware has an unerring eye for detail, telling his story not from the point of view of strategy and troop movements, but compassionately and humanely from that of the soldier right there in the trench, his feet sodden and swollen, his equipment chafing, face to face with the realisation that death is probably inevitable, whatever he does..." — Historical Novel Society

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27/07/2021

18/05/2021

“Ware has an unerring eye for detail, telling his story not from the point of view of strategy and troop movements, but compassionately and humanely from that of the soldier right there in the trench.”

- Historical Novel Society

1914: an innocent abroad, New Englander Daniel Wyndham comes to Tralee, County Kerry, in search of the Irish heroes of legend, especially as told by Lady Gregory. However, an altercation outside a pub sets off a chain of events which sees him sign up for six months’ service in the Royal Munster Fu...

11/04/2021

Dirty Shirt, by John Ware.

“… a fascinating tale – fun, fast and furious” – Irish Examiner

'In writing I have to maintain emotional engagement, and this is where my heart is. It’s with the Royal Munster Fusiliers, third battalion'