This will be a shortish post, as I'll be heading out soon to the Historical Novel Society's 6th North American conference, which is ...

I always look forward to new novels by authors whose earlier books I've read and enjoyed.  For my newest gallery of upcoming titles, her...

The front lines of battle may seem to be no place for a lady, but it’s where two estranged sisters find new levels of maturity, see their st...

Best known for Farewell, My Queen (2003), an intimate glimpse of Marie Antoinette’s last days, Thomas has crafted a pointed and witty nov...

Tracing the movements of France’s ill-fated Lapérouse maritime expedition in the late eighteenth century, Williams’ exceptional debut isn’...

I returned home from NYC on Saturday night and am still getting caught up.  It was a very busy few days at BEA, a big contrast from my quiet...

Best known for her sagas of historical British life, Lightfoot’s newest release fits with the popular dual-narratives trend, in which fami...

The third novel from Australian writer Kelly (aka book editor Kim Swivel), set in Depression-era Sydney, excels at depicting the era’s soc...

This latest gallery (see the tag Visual Previews for more) covers a dozen new and upcoming historical novels from Canadian publishers. The ...

Isabella Launder is a yeoman farmer's daughter living in a Staffordshire village in 1515. A tall, plain woman who strikes up a close f...

With her previous novel, Poet’s Cottage , Josephine Pennicott proved that edgy bohemian glamour and gothic creepiness made a great combina...

In Margaret Porter’s sparkling A Pledge for Better Times , the theme is constant change – political, religious, generational, and all of the...

As in previous years, I’m compiling a guide to the historical novels being promoted at the upcoming BookExpo America (BEA) show, to be held ...

Novelist Pamela Schoenewaldt is here today with a post about her latest novel's historical backdrop, and the subject is very relevant fo...

Ann Weisgarber excels at depicting the inner lives of people living through difficult historical times.  She writes with a graceful simpli...

You might call this one " Downton Abbey lite." The premise of Meadowlands will be familiar to followers of the WWI saga tren...

In our day, authors and editors of reference books aren't considered to be especially dangerous.  Dedicated and scholarly, perhaps, bu...

Biddy Leigh, the lead character of Martine Bailey's debut novel, works as the under-cook at Mawton Hall in Cheshire in the 1770s. Ado...

When Orhan Türkoğlu comes home to Kerod in Anatolia after the death of his grandfather, Kemal, the driver of his hired car praises him for...

“Life is uncommon and strange; it is full of intricacies and odd, confounding turns.” This statement made by the opening narrator of Parry...