Focusing on two women over a millennium apart who worship the same gods, Daughter of a Thousand Years is devoted to the theme of religiou...

Emma and Claire O’Donnell, ages ten and seven, mysteriously vanish after a blizzard in 1879 Albany, New York—the same storm that kills the...

Natalya Goncharova, Alexander Pushkin’s young wife, didn’t hold the best reputation among her contemporaries, whose opinions about her fli...

I'm pleased to present the following essay by historian and novelist Bill Rapp about the rewards and challenges offered by historical fi...

Lauren Willig’s The English Wife lends a distinctly American flavor to the Gothic family saga. Rather than a titled English family and th...

I'm pleased to present this interview with historical novelist Clarissa Harwood, whose debut novel was published by Pegasus last week. I...

“As the only female lawyer in Bombay, you hold a power that nobody else has,” a British government official tells Perveen Mistry in this f...

A good way into reading Cynthia Swanson’s The Glass Forest , I asked myself why I was turning each page with a mixture of eagerness and dr...

It’s been heartening to see so many people share my interest in 17th-century English settings. A number of recommendations of other title...

The English Civil War, the Restoration, the Great Fire of London, the Great Plague, and the country's notorious witch persecutions... 17...

It’s the turn of the 20th century, and the resort town of Old Orchard Beach, Maine, expects a busy season. Large crowds gather for a suffr...

It’s November 1843, and Charles Dickens is a man besieged. His latest serial, Martin Chuzzlewit , isn’t selling, and his wife and children...

A superb portrait of wartime valor, Daughters of the Night Sky spotlights the accomplishments of the Russian military aviators known as t...

Jewish Book Month, an annual celebration of Jewish literature sponsored by the Jewish Book Council , has been in existence since 1943, thoug...

Most time-slip novels in the traditional mold are set in countries with a lengthy and well-documented history. Think Anya Seton’s Green Da...

Known recently for her Civil War–era fiction, Chiaverini ( Fates and Traitors , 2016) takes a transatlantic sojourn for this exquisite bio...