KJ Whittaker's Top Book Recommendations
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Cassandra Worrell is beautiful, rich and very, very bored. Trapped in her parents stately home, she dreams of escape. Life suddenly becomes much more interesting with the appearance of a beautiful, disorientated young woman, who speaks a mysterious language... Cassandra is convinced she's found a princess from a far away land. Could the princess hold the key to the adventure she's been seeking? Or might the escape she desires be found in the arms of the wholly inappropriate but utterly delectable... more
Recommended by KJ Whittaker, and 1 others. KJ WhittakerThis book plunges you into a technicolour world that you can believe right away. (Source)
Caleb has spent his life roaming southern England with his Pa, little to their names but his father s signet ring and a puppet theater for popular, raunchy Punch and Judy shows until the day Pa is convicted of a theft he didn t commit and sentenced to transportation to the colonies in America. From prison, Caleb s father sends him to the coast to find an aunt Caleb never knew he had. His aunt welcomes him into her... more
Recommended by KJ Whittaker, and 1 others. KJ WhittakerTanya creates real drama in her storytelling and at the same time she highlights the inequalities of the time – inequalities that are still relevant today. (Source)
When a 21st-century mega-corporation opens a Time Tube to the 16th century, the stiff-backed CEO finds his plans for exploiting the mineral and tourism possibilities of the ancient English-Scottish border frustrated by the Sterkarms--raiding parties of men he regards as primitive animals.
On the other side of the Time Tube, anthropologist Andrea Mitchell has been...
moreRecommended by KJ Whittaker, and 1 others. KJ WhittakerA time-slip sci-fi novel. The parts that are set in the 16th Century Scottish borders feel absolutely real. (Source)
The year is 1910. For the past decade, the Averley family has lived a life of luxury in India, but now they must return to Lord Averley's ancestral estate, the sprawling, majestically beautiful Somerton Court. As the household staff hastily prepare for the family's arrival, they receive shocking news: Lord Averley is bringing back a fiancée with three children of her own, and on top of that, there are rumours of a terrible scandal surrounding Lord Averley's resignation as Lieutenant Governor of Bengal.
As the family settles in,... more
Recommended by KJ Whittaker, and 1 others. KJ WhittakerIt’s exciting and fun, but I like this book because it is also so much more than just a glamorous Downton-esque story of sparkling dresses and privilege. (Source)
Recommended by KJ Whittaker, and 1 others. KJ WhittakerHe says himself that this isn’t true historical fiction. And yet the world that he creates is so believable – it’s visceral, it feels real and authentic. (Source)
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