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Wednesday, April 17, 2019

The Red Daughter by John Burnham Schwartz, a novel of Svetlana Alliluyeva, Stalin's only daughter

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As in The Commoner (2008), modeled on Japan’s empress, Schwartz again demonstrates his adroitness at illustrating the troubled lives of h...
Wednesday, April 10, 2019

Interview with Kris Waldherr, author of the Victorian gothic novel The Lost History of Dreams

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Kris Waldherr's accomplished debut novel The Lost History of Dreams , set in Victorian times, is suffused with Gothic atmosphere while...
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Monday, April 08, 2019

Interview with Edith Maxwell, author of Charity's Burden, a Quaker Midwife mystery set in 1889 Massachusetts

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Edith Maxwell is an Agatha-nominated mystery writer with several current series, both contemporary and historical. Charity's Burden , pu...
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Wednesday, April 03, 2019

An uncommon 19th-century marriage: Thomas and Beal in the Midi by Christopher Tilghman

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Third in his acclaimed Mason saga, Tilghman’s ( The Right-Hand Shore , 2012) beautifully contemplative novel observes his protagonists’ un...
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Saturday, March 30, 2019

The 2018 Langum Prize in American Historical Fiction - Winner and Finalist

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The news recently arrived about the historical novels honored via the Langum Prize in American Historical Fiction, so without further ado......
Tuesday, March 26, 2019

The Latecomers by Helen Klein Ross, an American country-house saga with a difference

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With understated elegance, T he Latecomers braids many coming-of-age stories into one. First, we have Brighid “Bridey” Molloy, an Irish t...
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Saturday, March 23, 2019

A Comedy of Errors: an essay by Alan Bardos, author of The Assassins, a historical novel about the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

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I always get new insights into history and historical fiction writing from authors' guest posts, and the following essay by Alan Bardo...