Talking Location With … Bernadette Bernson: WHITBY
GIVEAWAY: 2 Historical Fiction titles set in ENGLAND
3rd August 2025
GIVEAWAY: 2 historical fiction titles set in ENGLAND
Comprising:
- A copy of The Queen of Fives by Alex Hay
- A copy of A Crime Through Time by Amelia Blackwell
- A Cornwall decorated box
- Teabags for the ultimate relaxation
The Queen of Fives by Alex Hay
SHE PLAYS BY HER OWN RULES.
Few can know the mysterious woman called the Queen of Fives. A talented hustler in silk and furs, she tricks fortunes from unscrupulous men with five signature moves. Masquerading as a wealthy debutante, Quinn Le Blanc has five days to win the hand of the most eligible duke in England – and disappear with the family riches.
BUT HAS SHE MET HER MATCH?
As Quinn targets the corrupt, charismatic Kendals, a stranger watches her from the shadows. Soon a dangerous game begins to play out within the grand drawing rooms and lavish balls of London’s high society. The Kendal family all have secrets of their own, and Quinn may not have the upper hand for long…
A Crime Through Time (Miss Darcy Investigates) by Amelia Blackwell
The gripping debut from Amelia Blackwell, A Crime Through Time is the start of a quirky series where Jane Austen, time travel and crime collide.
Pemberley, 1799. When Miss Georgiana Darcy attempts to escape an unwanted marriage proposal, she isn’t expecting to end up quite so far from home. But after encountering a mysterious object in the nearby woods, she finds herself transported almost two hundred years into the future.
Saltram, 1995. At a grand country house where a film crew are busy shooting the latest Jane Austen adaptation, a terrible crime has been committed. And Miss Darcy – newly arrived, impeccably dressed and thoroughly confused – is the only witness.
It soon becomes clear that, somehow, Georgiana was meant to solve this riddle. With the help of a distractingly handsome Irishman named Quinn and a border collie named Watson, she sets out to stop the killer before they can strike again. But meanwhile, trouble is brewing back at Pemberley and time, it seems, is not on her side . . .
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I would love to visit the Victorian era, so interesting.
I would love to visit the era of the Roman empire.
I would be thrilled to win x
I would love to visit the Victorian era, as in the Dickens books, it has always been an interest to me since I saw Oliver Twist when I was young.
I’d like to visit the 1920s and experience the Art Deco movement, the flapper scene and perhaps meet Amelia Earhart, Albert Einstein and Charlie Chaplin.
I would particularly hate to live in Victorian England because of the rigidity of the class system, attitudes to the poor, women, morality etc. If I was aware of my 21st century past and stuck there, I’d probably end up as an exhibit in Bedlam!
I would love to experience Dickensian London, as am a fan of Charles Dickens books.
I would love to visit London in the 1800s , I find that timeframe super interesting
I would love to have lived in the Victorian era. I think I would have hated Neolithic times but that is only because of hindsight.
History was my favourite subject both at school and teacher training college and historical fiction based on real people / events is one of my favourite genres. I honestly don’t think there is any era I would love or hate to visit (including the 9 decades I have experienced) I love my present day life and fully embrace all that modern technology has to offer myself and hubby to live our lives to the full.
I would love to have seen Pompeii before it was devastated by Mount Vesuvius erupting.
I’d love to visit the Tudor period
would love to visit the second world war to see my dad in action
I would love to visit 1920’s/1930’s!
The time of the vikings and King Cnut. I’d like to see what really went on for him to be a king of three countries.
Ancient Egypt — just to see the pyramids being built.
I would hate Tudor times but would love to be a flapper in the 20s
I would love to experience the 1920s but would hate Tudor times!
I would have loved to experience life in the early 40’s My Mum used to tell me many stories of times that she had when she would have been in her twenties 🙂
As long as I was safe, I’d visit the Jurassic era to see exactly what dinosaurs looked like and how they lived.
I wouldn’t want to stay there, but I would like to go to the 1940’s to experience what it was like going through the war.
Tudor era to see what it was like in London and meet some of the royals
I would love to be at the court of Henry VIII and experience that period as so much has been written about him and his wives that I would like to find out the truth about all those machinations!
Would hate to be around in tudor times
I would love to visit the Regency period in England but I would not like to be around in the rime of the Civil War in England – too much treachery!
id hate to be alive during the black plague
I’d love to visit around 1900 to see what life was really like for my great grandparents but only for the first few years as I wouldn’t want to see people live through the horror of the First World War.
I would love to visit the 1920’s with the fashion, music and style. Thanks very much!
I would love to visit Victorian Britain to see how people lived in that era and experience it for myself.
I’d like to revisit the 90s as it was such a fun time for music and fashion.
I’d love to go back to the 1960s and to the height of Beatlemania, though I’d probably start in 1961 to catch them at The Cavern Club before they got really big!
I’d love to go back to the Great Fire of London – as long as I could view it from a safe distance!
I am fascinated by the Roman era, especially Roman influences on Britain. I suppose learning Latin at school and visiting Roman remains whilst on holiday has helped with this!
I think the 1950s would be a good time to visit so I could experience all the new time-saving inventions there were! I wouldn’t fancy any period before then: Too violent / dirty / uncomfortable for me! Love reading about them though.
I’d love to visit the Tudor times to meet some of the fascinating Royal characters….BUT I expect I’d get my head chopped off!
I would love to go back to visit the 1940’s, yes there was the war going on, but families were together, and everyone looked out for each other, so different to now sadly.
I would love to visit Victorian Britain, it always sounds fascinating
Victorian Era, When Men and Women had defined roles in life.
I’d love to visit Roman times – in Italy – because of the culture, weather and simple life. I’d hate to visit WW1 or WW2 times.
I would love to witness the Titanic before it set sail
1950’s America – The birth of Rock ‘N’ Roll
I would love to visit the Victorian times but hate the povetyof city slums
I would love to visit the Victorian times so I could wear the fabulous outfits!
I think I’d love and hate to visit the Tudor period especially the royal court. It would be dangerous, but so interesting.
I’d like to visit the 1920s
The 1920s would be an interesting era to experience.
I’d love to visit Elizabethan England and catch up with Will Shakespeare and good Queen Bess!!
I’m a big Austen fan so I’d love to rock up in Georgian Bath
Ancient Greece
Late Victorian era
I would love to visit Victorian England. I was fascinated by this period when I was at school.
I would love to have been part of Victorian Times.
I’d hate to visit whilst the bubonic plague was happening! Even if it wasn’t so deadly I’m completely creeped out by the plague doctors.
Would love to visit in Elizabethan times, all those huge dresses and massive banquets. The knights etc…would be amazing.
Love – Georgian England; Hate; Black Death years
Late Victorian era for me.
Has to be the roaring twenties a time of great cultural and artistic change with everyone having a great time …. allegedly
I’d love to visit the court of Henry VIII.
The Golden Twenties in Berlin x
love to visit edwardian times to see the architecture being built
I’m riding dinosaurs baby!
I would love to visit Tudor england time as it was certainly changing times
I would like to go back to the 1960s to see all the changes that took place then.
Would not like to have been around 1644 to 1647 when Matthew Hopkins, The Witchfinder General was roaming around looking for witches.
1665 onwards (when the plague in London existed – horrible, but just to observe life)
I would love to visit the time of when Jesus was preaching
Victorian and The World Wars are my favourites
I’d love to go back to around 1900 and see what my ancestors were doing.
l would love to visit the dawn of mankind, inspired by Jan M Auel’s Clan of the Cave Bear
The beginning of time, to see how the world and everything in it was created, in its perfect state
I’d LOVE to visit the Regency era—not just for the elegance and wit of Austen’s world, but to stroll through Pemberley and maybe bump into a time-traveling Miss Darcy! But I’d HATE to be stuck in the Victorian slums—chimney sweeps, smog, and chamber pots? No thank you! Give me tea and intrigue, not soot and misery.
I’d like to go back to the early 1900s to see how my grandparents grew up. I wouldn’t like to return to the Roman era – far too brutal for me !
I’d love to visit the Tudor times and see if it was as scandalous as we think it was.
I would like to go back to the 1970’s ( when I was young! )
I would like to visit the Tudor period. I period I wouldn’t like to visit is the WW1 or WW2 era.
I’d love to visit the 1920’s and I would hate to be in Ireland in 1845 for the hunger
Would love to go back to the Victorian Era. Be fun to watch my house being built!
I might be on my own here but I’d both love and hate to visit London during the Great Plague of 1665-1666. I’d love to see the plague doctor roaming the filthy streets but I wouldn’t want to get the plague myself, obviously!
I’d love to go back and see the dinosaurs roaming free
I’d love to visit Tudor times when Elizabeth was on the throne 🙂
I’d like to go back and visit the Stuart period and the restoration, don’t fancy 1954.
I’d hate to visit medieval times, too brutal, I’d probably most like to visit the 1920’s, the Roaring 20s, always looks fun – the music, the dancing, the prosperity, women moving forward.
I would love to be a fly on the wall during The Tudor times, not sure I’d want to actively participate tho!
I would love to visit the Tudor period, not the Royal Courts and stately homes, but the homes of the ordinary people, from the humblest peasant to the tradespeople, shopkeepers and innkeepers, because we can read so much about how the nobility lived but little about everyday life. I would also like a guarantee that I will be able to return to the 21st century without a dose of typhoid, cholera or plague!
Elizabeth era
Love the etiquette and the dresses with big crinoline
I’d like to visit the Victorian era, but I also think it would be pretty shocking to see what it was really like
I would love to experience life in Tudor times with all the big ruffs around the neck. Hopefully I would keep my head on !
I would love to visit the Art Deco period of the 1920s for it’s glamourous fashions and designs.
Although it’s not that long ago, I’d like to visit the 1950’s, to see if it really was like it’s depicted in movies like Back to the Future and Grease. I also like the clothes and milkshakes and would love to learn to jive.
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The middle ages
I’m sure that the medieval period would be like visiting another planet, as life for the ordinary person would have been so different. I’d love to visit, but only for a day!
I would love to time travel back to the Roman occupation of Britain
I’d love to go back to the industrial revolution to meet inventors like Stephenson and Brunel
I would love to travel back to 1200 BC and discover the Mystery of The Sea Peoples. Who they were, where they came from, and where they went to.
Were they being chased, had they encountered disaster in their homeland? So many unanswered questions!
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Sea-People
Strange as it may seem, I think I would have liked to live through wartime – although it was a tough stressful time, everyone seemed to enjoy themselves – all getting on together, meeting new friends, social life, etc.
I’d love to visit the 1920’s. Such a glamourous period
I would like to travel back to meet Mary Stuart and warn her about what her terrible choice of men would lead to.
I’d love to go back to Ancient Rome. Plenty of strong women behind the scenes.
Love to visit the Georgian era
I have always been fascinated with the Victorian era
Tudor times would be interesting or relive the 1980’s ( my favourite music era)
I would love to visit the Tudor court with all the rich fabrics, jewels and gold embroidery and would hate to visit the English civil war period, very dour and dull.
I would like to visit ( re- visit) the mid 20th century and take my daughter & granddaughter with me to show them how things were when I was growing up.
I’m sure they sometimes think I am making things up.
I have always been fascinated by the Tudor period
The roaring 20s. The fun, the fashion, the glamour.