Today, I'm delighted to welcome Paul Rushworth-Brown to the #HistFicThursdays blog as part his Coffee Pot Book Club 's book tour. Today, meet Paul's new book The Lost Voices , and discover your next great read! Read on to enjoy an excerpt from this gripping book! First of all, let's meet the book... Some lives pass through history without leaving a trace. The Lost Voices is a work of historical fiction that brings to light those whose stories were never formally recorded—not because they lacked significance, but because their lives unfolded beyond the reach of power, authorship, and recognition. This is the story of ordinary people forced into extraordinary circumstances—individuals navigating a rigid social order shaped by obligation, fear, and quiet resistance. Here, survival depends as much on silence as on action, and choices are made not in moments of glory, but in private, under pressure, and with consequences rarely acknowledged. The novel explores how perso...
Saturday 2 nd November 2019 – Characters: Part One – Appearance This is a tricky one! To make your characters entirely believable, your reader wants to see beyond the physical exterior. But, all the same, you as the writer need to consider what your characters look like. It can be slightly awkward when a character’s hair colour suddenly changes, or they mysteriously grow a foot taller in two weeks. Photo by Tayla Walsh, Pexels Not many of us notice the colour of someone’s eyes the first time we meet them. Instead, we usually see their face as a whole and associate a certain emotion with them. People might have strict, pointy features , or perhaps a sullen frown or laughing eyes . These descriptions are a lot closer to what we experience when we meet someone, a sense you want your readers to have. They don’t want to imagine they're looking at a photograph, they want to encounter your characters as an equal. There ar...