I debated whether to post a list of 2016 favorites.  Choosing from among those I'd read in the last year proved challenging, and I spent...

I always like examining and discussing historical novel cover art.  The following ten pairings include the hardcover jacket design and the c...

In my review of the first book in Aimie K. Runyan’s trilogy about the women of New France’s Quebec settlement in the 17th century, Promis...

'Tis that time of year when "best of" lists are appearing at different bookish sites. Many such lists exist, but most don...

They meet while aloft in a hot air balloon over Paris in 1887. Caitriona Wallace is an impoverished Glaswegian widow acting as chaperone t...

I'm wrapping up my second year of participation in the Australian Women Writers Challenge .  Now that I'm part of the associated F...

Coincidentally, this title came up for review while I was planning a trip to Raglan Castle in South Wales, and it turned out to be a perfe...

“God doesn’t use weather as a weapon,” thinks Annie Bell, wife and mother in a farming family in Mulehead, Oklahoma, in 1934. The grass i...

Daisy Goodwin’s Victoria , which the author wrote alongside the screenplay for the upcoming Masterpiece TV series, follows the young queen...

This is a dual-narrative novel with a difference. In one section, a modern-day woman becomes intrigued by centuries-old secrets about an e...

University Press Week , sponsored by the Association of  American University Presses, runs from November 14-19 this year.  It's been cel...

In the antebellum era, Cora, a teenager born into slavery on a Georgia plantation, agrees to flee with a literate new arrival, Caesar, and...

Just a short post for now. For many years, I've been compiling listings of forthcoming books for the Historical Novel Society websit...

The seaside resort town of Old Orchard Beach, Maine, is the setting for this enjoyable first novel in a new lightly paranormal mystery ser...

How could anyone today hope to find what happened to two infants, twin girls, who vanished somewhere in Nazi-occupied Poland? It seems an...

“Young people working in a library are no different from those working anywhere else,” says private investigator Kate Shackleton. “They m...

The abundant natural beauty of Palm Springs, California, forms the backdrop for the newest entertaining novel from Wood, who has mastered ...

It’s said that everyone has a novel inside them. The dozen writers mentioned in this post first became famous for other reasons – politics,...

Alana White's Come Next Spring , a classic YA novel set in a farming town in the Smoky Mountains in 1949, was first published by Clarion...

Biographers are taking a new look at the women closest to FDR during his four-term presidency. Susan Quinn’s Eleanor and Hick: The Love Af...