Kaite Welsh’s debut, The Wages of Sin , is described as a “feminist Victorian crime novel.” What this means: the story is seen from a fema...

Having some free time in between review assignments, I decided to pick up a novel that had been on my TBR for years (it was published in 2...

The authors who write as A.J. MacKenzie are visiting the blog today with an essay on their experiences as historians now writing historical...

The area where I live in Illinois has suddenly become very green, and warm, and the spring semester's almost over.  It feels like summer...

There was a beauty to this place, wild and unspoilt, vivid and sharp. Between the roar of the rapids there were stretches of exquisite cal...

This debut novel recounts not only one but multiple harrowing tales of unlikely survival. It’s also an amazing piece of historical reconst...

Back in 2015, I wrote a post, Tudor Fiction without the Famous , that collected Tudor historical novels about lesser-known or fictional ch...

Jack Plageman would have turned sixteen on May 22, 1897. However, tragically, he'd died in his crib on his second birthday. His parents...

Aliki, a teenager in a northeastern Greek village in the 1940s, has an innate talent for singing dirge-poems honoring the deceased. After ...

In 1880, after following his lady-love, Fanny Osbourne, halfway across the globe, Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson lives in San Fran...

Any reimagining of the Greek myth of Medea, she who helped Jason acquire the Golden Fleece from her royal father and killed her children i...

In the United States, March has been officially designated as National Women's History Month, with many bookstores, libraries, websites,...

Miley’s third Roaring '20s mystery delivers more zippy entertainment that taps into the spirit of the time when Hollywood’s silent fil...

During the long, golden summer of 1914, members of a wealthy British family spend their days at leisure on their expansive Hampshire estate....

Alcott ( A Touch of Stardust , 2015) returns to mid-twentieth-century Los Angeles with her novel about a young woman’s emotional and cultu...

The Devil’s Bible is a real book. Known more formally as the Codex Gigas (giant codex), it measures 36” tall and 20” wide. Believed to ...

Cruising along the Italian Riviera in the 1950s sounds like a luxurious experience, and this feeling is conveyed to readers of Lucy Foley’...

The 13-book longlist for the 2017 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction was announced yesterday, and I've listed the judges' se...

Does he fiddle while Rome burns? No, although he loves performing music. What about the extravagances, dissipation, and political murders?...

“Is a hundred years long enough to keep a secret?” A novel that mingles past reminiscences with a contemporary storyline, The Johnstown ...