Stephanie Carroll, author of A White Room , is my guest at the blog today.  She's here with an essay about a concept that's vitally ...

“It’s not an unusual story, really – only the details set it apart,” remarks Dr. Edwin Matthews to our heroine, Frances, describing how h...

During my celebration of Small Press Month in March, Janice Weizman's The Wayward Moon was one of the titles I'd highlighted in a s...

This wasn't a novel that caught me right away.  The prose felt languid and almost dreamlike in the beginning, in keeping with the slow...

I'm so pleased to welcome novelist Elisabeth Storrs to Reading the Past.  Back in 2010, I reviewed her first novel , The Wedding Shroud ...

Thanks to everyone who entered the giveaways for Gillian Bagwell's Venus in Winter and Gary Schanbacher's Crossing Purgatory .  The...

Victoria Wilcox’s Inheritance begins a trilogy about Doc Holliday, a figure from Wild West lore whose name has been linked for over 100 year...

A short news round-up for Friday afternoon. Over at the Historical Novel Society website, I have a new interview with Jessica Brockmole , ...

In 1904, Hanna Lundmark, a young widow from poverty-stricken northern Sweden, arrives in Lourenço Marques, a coastal town in Portuguese Ea...

Gary Schanbacher is stopping by the blog today with a thought-provoking essay that touches on the nature and definition of historical fictio...

Today I have the pleasure of hosting historical novelist Gillian Bagwell for a Q&A.  Venus in Winter , her third novel, spans over thr...

Here are three ARCs I picked up in the ALA exhibit hall last weekend.  First up is Kathleen Kent's The Outcasts (Little, Brown, Oct)...

Sarah Dunant has written three acclaimed novels of Renaissance Italy in which she consciously narrowed her focus to the long-concealed sto...