As has been reported in other sources, the longlist for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction has been revealed – for the first time...

I've occasionally noted the passing of other historical novelists on this site, but this post is different because it's a more perso...

Franklin’s final novel, skillfully completed by her daughter after her death, recounts two young women’s courage during a dark, chaotic er...

Today I'm shining a spotlight on Amazon Publishing's Lake Union imprint , which publishes historical and contemporary fiction along ...

An isolated house allegedly filled with ghostly presences. Two women mired in restrictive social circumstances and linked over a generatio...

Sir Richard Kenworthy has some big secrets – does he ever. For his own private reasons, he travels south from Yorkshire to London to convi...

This 17th novel in the Ian Rutledge mystery series follows the successful pattern used in many of the previous books. An inspector at Scot...

Hill’s third novel, a Canadian bestseller, is a masterful example of historical storytelling, one both heartbreaking and hopeful. When s...

The high-security, covert area known as Oak Ridge, Tennessee – over 50,000 acres of land set aside by the U.S. government for the developm...

I was in the audience when the winners of this year's book and media awards from the American Library Association's RUSA (Reference...

Reissues can bring new life and many new readers to older, classic novels.  Both Valerie Fitzgerald's Zemindar (1981) and Diane Pearson...

Today I'm hosting an interview with novelist Gary Inbinder.  His third novel The Devil in Montmartre,  released last month, brings ...

A while back, in the comments I made following my review of Timothy Schaffert’s The Swan Gondola , I confessed that I don’t usually go for...

I've been an American Library Association member for 20 years, but this year will be the first time I'll be attending ALA Midwinter....

Alcott should entrance large audiences with her stellar historical novel, which follows fictional Indiana native Julie Crawford after she ...

The winner of the 2014 David J. Langum, Sr. Prize for American Historical Fiction is Kimberly Elkins' What Is Visible (Twelve, 2014). ...

Whether you read historical fiction to be educated, entertained, or both, Citizens Creek will get you squared away. The title refers to ...

When Kristin Gleeson first mentioned her idea to contribute an essay about Etowah, I was intrigued and expressed interest in learning more...

Morrow’s newest cheerfully provocative epic stars the intrepid Chloe Bathurst, who takes a job as Charles Darwin’s assistant zookeeper aft...

Combining the pleasurable dramas of the English country house novel and the richly detailed, tense atmosphere of a historical mystery, this ...