Delighted to see an excellent review, by Brenton Cullen, of my latest middle-grade novel, The Key to Rome, in Good Reading Magazine. Pretty chuffed that he highly recommended it!
Excellent review of The Key to Rome in Good Reading
Month: May 2023
Pre-order of The Paris Cooking School
Sumptuous…Romantic..Escapist: The Paris Cooking School is now available for pre-order via the Ultimo Press website. Exciting! The book will be released in November. On the pre-order page there’s also a new author photo of me, one of a portfolio of several fabulous new author portraits, in both colour and black and white, which the very talented Lorena Carrington has created for me.
Great new review for The Key to Rome!
On the popular Buzz Words site, there’s a great new review, by Debra Williams, of The Key to Rome. Here’s a very short extract:
This is a first-class middle-grade historical adventure…..Multi-award-winning author Sophie Masson has carefully crafted a believable and suspenseful adventure. Her details of the period have been thoroughly researched to create an intriguing historical mystery.
You can read the full review here.
Publication day for The Key to Rome!
Today my new middle-grade historical mystery novel, The Key to Rome, is officially published by Eagle Books and is available in all good bookshops around Australia. It’s a novel that’s had a long gestation, since the day quite a few years ago when I spotted an ancient Roman key ring (a key designed to be worn as a ring) in an antique shop near the British Museum, and on an impulse, went in and bought it. It immediately inspired a train of thought about a story set in the Ancient Roman province of Britannia, and in time that turned into the book that is published today. And it’s just wonderful to see it out there at last!
The gorgeous cover illustrations, map and chapter decorations are by Lorena Carrington, and elegant design by Authors’ Elves.
You can watch a trailer for The Key to Rome here.
Feathers of the Firebird 