RosemaryMorris.HistoricalNovelist

 I havw been interviewed by Helen Hollick best-selling novelist. https://ofhistoryandkings.blogspot.com/2023/08/my-weekend-spotlight-guest-rosemary.html

  Unmarried mother-to-be Norah, a talented artist, fled to her cousin in France to avoid scandal in England. When the Germans invaded the country, she was trapped. Outcast in Bretagne is a story about of love that seems doomed. Star crossed Norah and Commandant August von Gottlieb create more scandal and problems than Norah could never have imagined. If their secrets were discovered they would face torture and death. Norah’s were not only about her pregnancy and August’s were connected to his increasing disillusionment with Hitler’s dictatorship.   Ms Scott-Lewis brings to life Norah and August’s emerging love, her cousin’s surly husband and loveable children, members of the local resistance party, the villagers’ suffering and their attitudes. She also shows August in his official capacity, his brutal Nazi second-in-command, arrogant soldiers who have no respect for the conquered, and his right hand man, a young officer who approves of August’s mild regime which conflicts ...

Maggi Andersen's review of Indira and Daisy byrosemary Morris.  "Wonderful entertaining story. This well written, entertaining story, reminded me of Rodgers and Hammerstein's song in South Pacific. You've got to be taught. The young do not know to distrust those of a different skin color, until they are taught. The friendship of two young girl's is a bridge between two very different cultures bringing two families together through tragedy and a new beginning. Wonderfully well drawn characters."

  I congratulate Ms Joan Donaldson Yarmey for recreating the Gold Rush in the Northern Territory and bringing it to life in her epic romantic novel Rushing the Klondike. Many of the characters she vividly portrays are actual men and women. Among them is the Jesuit Priest, Father Judge who had a mission   in Fortymile where he bult a residence, a church and a hospital. It is also worth mentioning the legend of three men who found a baby on Christmas Eve which has its place in the folklore of the Klondike. While reading the novel, I travelled with Pearl Owen a journalist, who supplements her income baking and selling sour dough bread and working in a hotel, her cousin and friends in Dawson and the area around it, including mining camps.   Dawson   was a thriving town with hotels, supply stations, restaurants, bars and a population of 3,500 who lived in cabins or tents.   When the ice on the Yukon melted in spring 1897, Pearl’s friend, Florence, arrived with ...