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Wednesday, June 18, 2025

Raymond Wemmlinger's The Queen's Rival tells the story of a little-known Tudor heir

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Tudormania has come and gone, but the era remains popular, and many individuals’ stories remain obscure. Such is the case with Lady Margaret...
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Friday, June 13, 2025

The latest trend in historical fiction: the 1960s

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Has everyone come around to the realization that novels written now and set in the '60s are considered historical fiction?  Even more, t...
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Thursday, June 05, 2025

Tragedy and resilience in Vanessa Miller's The Filling Station

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In the early 20th century, the Greenwood district of Tulsa, Oklahoma, was home to numerous Black-owned businesses and a thriving African Ame...
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Sunday, June 01, 2025

An illustrious American family and its stain: Karen Joy Fowler's Booth

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The 19th-century Booth family had once been known by the American public for something other than their second youngest son’s heinous act. T...
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Tuesday, May 27, 2025

Alison Weir's The Cardinal presents the public and secret lives of Tudor statesman Thomas Wolsey

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Born an innkeeper’s son, Thomas Wolsey rose spectacularly to become a Catholic cardinal and Henry VIII’s principal advisor. Weir’s ( The Pas...
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Thursday, May 22, 2025

A forgotten Egyptian goddess: Rachel Louise Driscoll's The House of Two Sisters

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Do you believe in curses? Might you be convinced of their reality if terrible things befell you and your family after an unheeded warning? ...
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Monday, May 19, 2025

A Leg to Stand On, a guest post by Nell Joslin, author of Measure of Devotion

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Nell Joslin, author of the Civil War-era novel Measure of Devotion  (Regal House, May 2025). contributes a short essay about how validation ...
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