This skillfully drawn multi-period mystery blends present-day crime with scenes from 1890, a year when painter Winslow Homer was living and...

I'm just back from an invigorating yet overwhelming week in NYC for BEA and the book blogger con.  These are the BEA titles that came ho...

Today Mary Tod, a historical fiction writer and fellow blogger from Canada, is stopping by with a guest essay on the many different facets t...

Kate Lord Brown is stopping by today to discuss some of the fascinating tidbits she uncovered while researching her debut novel.  The Beauty...

A quick note to mention that my list of historical fiction picks at BEA has grown considerably in length, following my reading of Library J...

Rosslyn Elliott's debut novel, Fairer than Morning , takes readers back to Ohio and Pennsylvania in the 1820s, a bygone era no less comp...

British-Venetian author Marina Fiorato heads to Tuscany for her latest novel of love and suspense in a beautifully evoked Italian setting. ...

My review of Pauline Gedge's The King's Man , the long-awaited final volume in her trilogy of the same name, was published in today...

(This post was updated on May 20th with many new details courtesy of the Library Journal and Kirkus Reviews BEA preview publications.) I...

Sometimes the past is another country. Other times, as in Michael Parker’s inventive recreation of Theodosia Burr Alston and her fictional ...

I'd like to extend a warm welcome to M.L. Malcolm. She's stopping by Reading the Past today to talk about discovering the female Ja...

Being a proud descendant of early New England troublemakers, I was pleased to come across a biographical novel about a woman fitting this de...

Like its vivacious heroine, Priya Parmar’s Exit the Actress arrives with none of the trappings normally associated with royal mistresses. T...

Or, a visual preview of the spring/summer season, part one... This debut romantic novel set in Restoration London, a glorious city ab...

Sandra Dallas is a bestselling novelist whose works, puzzlingly, always seemed to have greater appeal to mainstream readers than to fans of ...

Georgia Lowe's debut novel The Bonus shines light on a pivotal and regrettably obscure event from the Depression era. In 1932, over 20,...

I'm taking a break from the controlled chaos known as National Library Week to finish writing up a post I've had in draft since mid-...

I have a longer post in the works, but without further delay, it's time to announce the winner of the latest giveaway. Congratulations...

Suzannah Dunn’s The Confession of Katherine Howard , a swift-moving story of friends-turned-frenemies in Tudor England, looks at Henry VIII’...

A few historical fiction award winners and nominees have been announced in recent days. Lucia St. Clair Robson's Last Train from Cuern...