The literary world has been having a long-overdue conversation about the practice of blurbing, that is, writers providing promotional endors...

What do people owe a repressive government that originally nurtured them? Durham offers an attention-grabbing debut about the closeness and ...

Today I'm welcoming author Charlotte Whitney, who has a guest essay about the historical background to her new novel, A Tiny Piece of Bl...

Tom Merchet, brewer of some of the finest ale in York in 1377, has failed to return home for days, and his beloved wife, Bess, can’t hide he...

I spent yesterday at The History Quill’s 2025 virtual convention , which I first heard about on Instagram. It’s a writers’ conference for hi...

The narrative voice in Junie sounds so assured that you wouldn’t realize it was a debut. The title character, just sixteen in 1860, has liv...

The American Library Association and its RUSA division recently announced the winners in their annual Book and Media Awards. I always like ...

Lady Eleanor “Ellie” Balfour has loved Wesley Audley, illegitimate son of the Duke of Bentley, ever since he saw her practicing swordplay on...

Ranging across time and distance, Charmaine Wilkerson’s second novel (after the highly acclaimed Black Cake ) stitches together a meaningful...

On an evening in late August 1894, a mob of union sheepshearers boarded the paddle-steamer Rodney at its mooring along the Darling River in...

Airey’s intoxicating debut is much more than a saga following young women of Irish heritage across three generations. Sixteen-year-old Cora ...

Happy New Year!  This is my 1900th blog post, with brief reviews of four recommended historical novels I've read over the past month or ...

In 1696, a Venetian sex worker deposits her newborn in a small hole in the wall of the Ospedale della Pietà, an orphanage where nuns shelter...

Babylon is engrossing from start to finish. Michelle Cameron’s novels illustrate the lives of the Jewish people (especially women) at times...

Here are ten more indie-published historical novels worth investigating. It was great to see so much interest in my initial list of ten titl...

In flapper-speak, a “whisper sister” was a female barkeep during Prohibition, a daring woman who kept booze flowing for eager customers in u...

Personal transformations echo throughout Pike’s intensely felt third novel (following The Forgotten Kingdom , 2020) in an ongoing series abo...

It's not even December, and media outlets have been proclaiming their Best Books recommendations for 2024. I feel a bit sorry for those ...

If you aren't paying attention to indie-published historical fiction, you don't have a full picture of what the genre has to offer t...