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Wednesday, 29 April 2026

My Coffee Pot Book Tour Guest: Maryka Biaggio - Margery and Me

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About the Book

Book Title: Margery and Me

Author Name: Maryka Biaggio

Publication Date: April 21, 2026

Publisher: Regal House Publishing

Pages: 292

Genre: Historical Fiction

Audiobook narrated by Mark Sanderlin

In the 1920s, Margery Crandon captivated both Boston society and psychic researchers with her astonishing seances. At her gatherings, her deceased brother Walter regularly appeared, entertaining the circle with his witty and cheeky remarks. Margery's abilities earned her the admiration of luminaries, including Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and William Butler Yeats. But one man stood in opposition: Harry Houdini, the legendary magician, who was determined to expose her as a fraud.

Margery and Me tells the true story of the medium who mystified scientists, challenged skeptics, and sparked a sensation across America and Europe. As Houdini and Margery clashed in a battle of wits and wills, the question remained: Could the master illusionist unmask her, or would her extraordinary powers be enough to convert even the most resolute of doubters?

Buy Link:

Universal Buy Link: https://books2read.com/u/4Xy5re

Author Bio:

Maryka Biaggio is a psychology professor-turned-novelist who brings forgotten lives back into the light. Specializing in historical fiction inspired by real people, she crafts emotionally resonant narratives anchored in careful research.

Her debut novel, Parlor Games (Doubleday, 2013), launched a distinguished career that includes Gun Girl and the Tall Guy and Margery and Me. Her work has earned numerous accolades, including the Willamette Writers Award, Oregon Writers Colony Award, Historical Novel Society Review Editors' Choice, La Belle Lettre Award, and a Publishers Weekly pick.

Biaggio is celebrated for illuminating overlooked historical figures with psychological depth and narrative grace.

Author Links:

Website:

https://marykabiaggio.com

Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/ParlorGames

Pinterest:

https://www.pinterest.com/marykak/

Book Bub:

https://www.bookbub.com/authors/maryka-biaggio

TikTok:

https://www.tiktok.com/@marykabiaggio3

Amazon Author Page:

https://www.amazon.com/stores/Maryka-Biaggio/author/B008OLO1I4

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1078939.Maryka_Biaggio

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Monday, 27 April 2026

Yarde Reviews and Book Promotions: Infidel: The Daughters of Aragon by Nicola Harris

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Infidel: The Daughters of Aragon (Six Tudor Queens) By Nicola Harris

Publication Date: 5^th March 2026

Publisher: ‎ Independently Published

Print Length: 268 Pages

Genre: Biographical Historical Fiction | Tudor Fiction | Historical Fiction

Born in the glittering courts of Castile and Aragon and forged in the shadow of war, Catalina de Aragón grows up surrounded by queens, rebels, and explorers. She is her mother’s last daughter, the final jewel of a dynasty built on conquest and faith, and the one child Isabella of Castile cannot bear to lose.

But destiny has already claimed Catalina.

Promised to Prince Arthur of England since childhood, she is raised to bind kingdoms, soothe old wounds, and carry the hopes of an empire across the sea. Yet, Spain fractures under rebellion, grief, and the ruthless zeal of its own rulers.

From the burning streets of Granada to the storm‑lashed Bay of Biscay, Catalina and her sisters must navigate a treacherous path shaped by ambition, betrayal, and the dangerous love of men who fear the power of queens. She learns to read cyphers, to read hearts, and to stand unbroken even as her childhood is stripped from her piece by piece.

And when she finally sails for England armed with her mother’s lessons, her father’s steel, and the ghosts of the Alhambra at her back, Catalina steps into her fate not as a girl, but as a force.

A princess.

A survivor.

A daughter of Aragon.

Infidel is the story of a young woman raised for greatness and destined to reshape the fate of nations. This is Catalina, as she has never been seen before. She is fierce, vulnerable, and unforgettable.

A sweeping, intimate portrait of sisterhood, survival, and the making of a dynasty, Infidel reveals the hidden lives of a woman whose courage shaped the Tudor world.

Any Triggers: Grief, mild peril, the Spanish Inquisition, enslaved people, death in childbirth and miscarriage.

Buy Link:

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Author Bio:

I’ve always been a writer, but it was only when illness forced me to stop everything that I finally had the time to write a novel. After decades of misdiagnosis, I learned I was born with a serious genetic condition, not rare, but profoundly misunderstood. The clues were there from birth, and suddenly, a lifetime of struggle made sense.

Writing became my lifeline: a way to step beyond my pain, to shape my experience into a story, and to find meaning where there had once been only endurance.

I have a lifelong love of children, Counselling, and Psychotherapy Theory and history.

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Website: https://nicolaharrisauthor.com/

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Amazon Author Page:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/stores/Nicola-Harris/author/B0FQ39YKGF

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/59955210.Nicola_Harris