Frances McNamara’s follow-up to Death at Hull House sees her enterprising young protagonist, former university student Emily Cabot, involve...

I feel I should be writing more about the Historical Novel Society conference, which was wonderful - thanks so much to all of the speakers, ...

I'm on my way to San Diego (literally - I'm writing this during an unexpectedly long layover at O'Hare) for the 4th North Ameri...

Hello blog readers -- today I have a unique giveaway to offer you.  As you know, I haven't been doing many contests, but this one caught...

Debut novelist Evan Ostryzniuk is stopping by today with a terrific guest essay on the changing meaning of knighthood in 14th-century Europe...

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 ...