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Thursday 12 October 2023

My Coffee Pot Book Club Guest: Julia Ibbotson - Drumbeats

The Drumbeats Trilogy, Book 1

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BOOK SPOTLIGHT


About the Book
Boo Title: Drumbeats

Series:  The Drumbeats Trilogy (Book #1)

Author:   Julia Ibbotson

Publication Date: re-published June 21st, 2023

Publisher: self-published / Archbury Books

Page Length: 230

Genre: Historical Romance / Historical Mystery (20th Century)

It’s 1965, and 18 year old Jess escapes her stifling English home for a gap year in Ghana, West Africa. But it’s a time of political turbulence across the region. Fighting to keep her young love who waits back in England, she’s thrown into the physical and emotional dangers of civil war, tragedy and the conflict of a disturbing new relationship. And why do the drumbeats haunt her dreams?

This is a rite of passage story which takes the reader hand in hand with Jess on her journey towards the complexities and mysteries of a disconcerting adult world.

This is the first novel in the acclaimed Drumbeats trilogy: Drumbeats, Walking in the Rain, Finding Jess.

For fans of Dinah Jefferies, Kate Morton, Rachel Hore, Jenny Ashcroft

Buy Links:

This title is available to read on #KindleUnlimited.

Universal Link: 

https://books2read.com/Drumbeats1    


About the Author

Award-winning author Julia Ibbotson herself spent an exciting time in Ghana, West Africa, teaching and nursing (like Jess in her books), and always vowed to write about the country and its past. And so, the Drumbeats Trilogy was born. She’s also fascinated by history, especially by the medieval world, and concepts of time travel, and has written haunting time-slips of romance and mystery partly set in the Anglo-Saxon period.

She studied English at Keele University, England, specialising in medieval language, literature and history, and has a PhD in linguistics. She wrote her first novel at age 10, but became a school teacher, then university lecturer and researcher. Her love of writing never left her and to date she’s written 9 books, with a 10th on the way.

Julia is a member of the Romantic Novelists Association, Society of Authors and the Historical Novel Society.

Website:         

https://juliaibbotsonauthor.com

Twitter:         

 https://twitter.com/JuliaIbbotson

Facebook:      

https://www.facebook.com/JuliaIbbotsonauthor

LinkedIn:       https://linkedin.com/in/dr-julia-ibbotson-62a5401a

Instagram:      

https://www.instagram.com/julia.ibbotson/

Pinterest:        

http://www.pinterest.co.uk/juliai1

Amazon Author Page:           

https://Author.to/JuliaIbbotsonauthor

Goodreads:     

https://www.goodreads.com/juliaibbotson

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Twitter Handle: @JuliaIbbotson @cathiedunn

Instagram Handle: @julia.ibbotson @thecoffeepotbookclub

Hashtags: #HistoricalFiction #Romance #Mystery #WomensFiction #BlogTour #TheCoffeePotBookClub #CPBC

Tour Schedule Page: 

https://thecoffeepotbookclub.blogspot.com/2023/08/blog-tour-drumbeats-by-julia-ibbotson.html



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3 comments:

  1. Thank you so much for hosting Julia Ibbotson today, with her wonderful novel, Drumbeats.

    Cathie xx
    The Coffee Pot Book Club

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  2. Thank you so much, Helen, for featuring my book, Drumbeats, on your lovely blog today. Much appreciated.

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