REVIEW: BLACK DIAMONDS by Catherine Bailey

Anyone with a penchant for the tension between the past traditions and the coming future (a la Lord Grantham in Downton Abbey) and historical nonfiction should pick up Black Diamonds. Catherine Bailey, author of The Secret Rooms, has once again scoured archives private and public looking for the missing links in noted family’s story. Posterity…

REVIEW: THE SECRET ROOMS by Catherine Bailey

The Secret Rooms are just that — large, separated and locked.  Bailey, a writer researching something else entirely, stumbles upon a tightly-held secret at Belvoir Castle.  The estate, which has been in the family for over five-centuries, was the setting for numerous pivotal events in British history.  It also had its fair share of dastardly…