By 1830, it’s been 20 years since young Jamie Pyke fled his Virginia plantation home. Now known as James Burton, a respected businessman a...

Many English-language historical novels set in India take place during the British Raj in the 19th and 20th centuries. Bharti Kirchner’s ...

Readers will take away different things from Read’s newest novel, depending on their familiarity with the source material. Newcomers to Pu...

In today's post, S.K. Rizzolo offers a thought-provoking essay about racial attitudes in early 19th-century English society and the plig...

Historical fiction has been getting a nice showing at my library.  I recently put together a couple of book displays:  one on fiction about ...

This month I'm celebrating Reading the Past's 10th anniversary, a nice milestone! This had me curious about what the most popu...

The search for happiness, the complex entanglements of family life, and people’s reactions to trying circumstances: these themes are famil...

This is a post about the international marketplace, book cravings, and impatience. I occasionally purchase historical novels from non-U...

Just over two years ago, I reviewed the third novel of Frances Brody's Kate Shackleton mysteries, Murder in the Afternoon , set in 192...

In her second entertaining novel about the Georgian royals, Laura Purcell explores the complex interdependencies between two intelligent w...

It was hard to get a handle on the plot of The Photographer’s Wife . For a good long while, I felt like I was glimpsing the characters an...

Until I looked around online just now, I hadn't realized there was a literary prize for second novels: the Encore Award , which comes wi...

In this moody historical ghost story, nearly everything – the house at its center, the characters, their relationships – feels slightly ou...

When there are gems like this to be found, it’s no wonder adults get in the habit of raiding bookstores’ YA sections. This lyrical charact...

This multi-generational novel, set between 1892 and 1944, is jointly written by three people, all bestselling authors (and good friends), ...

Opening in Russia in 1911, Midnight in St. Petersburg features a young woman seeking refuge, a tense love triangle, the dangerous stirrin...

Tinted with melancholy and yearning, Golden’s decades-spanning literary romance follows two individuals whose enduring love is tested by t...

Harrigan’s newest epic adds to his reputation as a stellar historical novelist. Set mostly in Illinois in the 1830s and '40s, it takes...

'Tis the season for book prize announcements.  The American Library Association's Midwinter conference wraps up today, and many book...

Set in the 16th century and in modern times, The Debt of Tamar isn’t your standard multi-period novel. Rather than alternating between era...