Sorry for the delay in announcing the winners for these two giveaways! I haven't been blogging or reading at all in the last week or so!...

Louis XIV is one of the best-known monarchs ever to grace the French throne. But what was he like as a young man—the man before Versailles? ...

Alice Verney is a young woman intent on achieving her dreams. Having left Restoration England in the midst of a messy scandal, she has been ...