Simmering Stories: Robbie Cheadle Reviews When Secrets Bloom and I Share a Historical Recipe

When Secrets Bloom, historical fiction set in 143 Transylvania, an old book near a pot of sarmale

Some conversations are like a shared meal: nourishing, layered with memory and meaning. When Robbie Cheadle speaks about the books she reads she does so, with generosity. With Robbie, reading and cooking meet at the same table.

In her thoughtful feature of When Secrets Bloom on Latinos USA simple pleasures take centre stage: the turning of a page, the slow preparation of food, the way both acts bind us to history and to one another.

19/05/202613/05/2026

Empire’s Passing by Marian L. Thorpe: How to Live the Passing of an Era

There are endings that close a story and there are endings that open something far larger, echoing like footsteps across a void road. When an empire falls what truly ends… and what quietly survives?

Within our historical fiction anthology Courage: Tales of History, Mystery and Hope Marian L. Thorpe shares a remarkable story.

16/05/202613/05/2026

Broadside and Boarding: Small Scale Action in the Age of Fighting Sail by Antoine Vanner

History does not always unfold in grand theatres. More often, it is decided in narrow waters, in the press of cannon smoke, in the brutal exchanges where survival is measured not in glory, but in seconds. When history is reduced to a single moment of fire and impact, what remains of the men who stood within it?

Antoine Vanner is one of the contributing writer to our historical fiction anthology Courage: Tales of History, Mystery and Hope.

15/05/202615/05/2026

How Short Stories Actually Hold Entire Lifetimes and Why It’s Important

Readers and writers can dispute the amount of room left to wonder in a short story – and say there simply isn’t enough space.

In a short narrative every sentence must carry weight: be it wound, memory, betrayal, or simply longing. Sometimes an entire lifetime must survives inside a single gesture. This could be something as mundane as a hand reaching for a letter that arrived too late. Like in my short story Kate’s Letter included in the anthology Courage: Tales of History, Mystery and Hope.

13/05/202614/05/2026

Courage: Tales of History, Mystery and Hope, Pre-Order Now #CourageAnthology

The old storytellers would have said that courage does not arrive with trumpets. It comes quieter than that: with footsteps in deep snow; with a hand reaching to help when all instinct says withdraw.

And so Courage: Tales of History, Mystery and Hope was born.
Courage is not the absence of fear—it is the decision to face it.