Category: Historical Fiction

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Nancy Jardine’s ‘The Taexali Game’ Joins Ocelot Press

We’re excited that another historical fiction title from Nancy Jardine has joined Ocelot Press this autumn. This one has a time travel twist. The story of ‘The Taexali Game’ centres on an interactive computer game that takes the players back to the time of the Romans in Britain and their attempts to subdue the North of the island.

Here’s the blurb:

When the Rubidium Time-Leap flips Aran, Brian and Fianna back to AD 210 the reality of the game is incredible. They have a task list to fulfil, which includes solving a local mystery, but it’s petrifying when Ancient Roman Legions heap death and destruction on the Taexali Celts of Caledonia.

Giving help to Taexali and Romans alike becomes a lethal assignment—some Celtic chiefs are as foul as the Ancient Roman Emperor Severus and his beastly son Caracalla. Dicing with death becomes the norm for the time travellers.

Will they complete the mission and return home unscathed?

The Taexali Game is available from all Amazon stories. The Kindle version is on pre-order until 30th September; buy now and pay nothing until the book downloads on publication day. The paperback is available now.

Buy your copy of The Taexali Game from your Amazon store now!
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Accolades roll in for Cathie Dunn’s ‘A Highland Captive’

We’re incredibly proud of our fellow author Cathie Dunn, whose historical romance A Highland Captive is on a roll right now!

Not only has this great adventure set in late 13th-century Scotland been awarded a Chill With a Book Readers’ Award, but it has also been longlisted for a prestigious Chanticleer Book Award. We’re keeping fingers crossed for the next round.

The CHATELAINE Book Awards recognize emerging new talent and outstanding works in the genre of  Romantic Fiction and Women’s Fiction. The Chatelaine  Book Awards is a genre division of Chanticleer International Book Awards ( The #CIBAs).

Here’s what Chill With a Book had to say:

Thoroughly enjoyable book; I liked everything about it.  I felt this book was very well balanced, has an engaging & interesting storyline; good, strong characters; true to the period without overdoing the barbarity.

A Highland Captive is available from Amazon in Kindle and paperback formats.


Buy your copy of A Highland Captive from your Amazon store here

And that’s not all…

And Cathie’s latest novel, to be published on 28th November, is now on pre-order on Amazon Kindle: a dual timeline story set in the Languedoc area of Southwest France in the present day and the 8th century. Buy now and pay nothing until publication.

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Exciting times for Nancy Jardine’s ‘The Beltane Choice’ – and chances to win a giveaway!

The Beltane Choice, Book 1 of Nancy Jardine’s Celtic Fervour Saga series is off on tour with Rachel’s Random Resources Blog Tours!

Rachel organises such wonderful opportunities for authors to have their novels featured at many different book bloggers and thus, hopefully, those blog posts are read by lots of that blogger’s followers who will be new readers of the series.

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New Titles from Ocelot Press this Autumn

Here at Ocelot Press we hope you’ve had a great summer. We’re excited to announce two new historical romance titles to be published under the Ocelot Press imprint this autumn: Jennifer C. Wilson’s The Raided Heart and Cathie Dunn’s Love Lost in Time. A distinguished pair of titles to add to our growing stable of historical fiction, both stories taking place in atmospheric settings. Read more about them below. And you can pre-order them both now!

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Nancy Jardine’s Roman General in the Spotlight

General Gnaeus Iulius Agricola had a thankless task trying to subdue the rebellious Caledonians and gain support from his indifferent Roman emperor. He tells us all about it today in the latest Historical Writers’ Forum “Interview my Character” blog hop.

Agricola is one of the main characters in Ocelot author Nancy Jardine’s Agricola’s Bane, the fourth in her exciting Celtic Fervour series.

Book giveaway

And there’s a giveaway to go with the interview. Nancy is offering one ebook copy to a lucky winner. So go and have a look at this fascinating interview and leave a comment and you might be that winner!

Other Ocelot Press characters taking part

Marie-Thérèse Vernhes, the main character in Vanessa Couchman’s Overture, has already been interviewed in this blog hop series. You can read that interview here.

And coming up on Wednesday 17 July is the interview of Cathie Dunn’s character from Dark Deceit, Geoffrey de Mortagne. He’s a a man torn between an oath and his duty. Watch this space for the link to the interview.