Can a novel make us nostalgic for a place we've never been? With her third English-language release, an uncomplicated story brimming wit...

It’s the rare woman in 1930s southern Italy who lives by her beliefs and refuses to downplay her intelligence, but Anna Allavena fits this d...

For over a decade, August has been celebrated as Women in Translation Month, an observance dedicated to addressing the gender imbalance in w...

The narrator’s voice grabs hold immediately, and what a tale she has to tell! In small-town Georgia in 1960, Doris Steele, a Black seventeen...

Nancy Hayes Kilgore is here today with a short essay about shifting to a new historical era, and what happens when a potential story idea ju...

The spelling in the title of M. J. Trow’s historical thriller The Blue and the Grey hints that this novel set just after the US Civil War h...

Moving from an upscale Madrid household to Valladolid’s chaotic streets and back to the capital, this debut illustrates Golden Age Spain fro...

Fall is always a big season for fiction, and here are 14 upcoming novels that caught my interest. Distinctive settings across the board, wit...

This fifth and last volume in the Harriet Gordon series, set in colonial Singapore in 1911, is the most excitingly constructed mystery I’ve ...

India Edghill’s latest novel  A Tiger in the Garden  is a sweeping epic set in the isolated Indian hills in the Victorian era. At its heart ...

Everyone familiar with the Tudors knows that Elizabeth I became queen after the death of her older half-sister, Mary I, giving her name to t...

At the start of Iggulden’s smartly executed second novel in a trilogy—following Nero (2024) —our main character, Nero, is a willful, occasi...

A few months ago, another historical fiction reader and I were exchanging thoughts via email about prologues. Such as: why do so many books...

Welcome to Terri Lewis, who's here with an essay exploring the characters of her biographical novel, as well as their motivations. Her  ...

Tudormania has come and gone, but the era remains popular, and many individuals’ stories remain obscure. Such is the case with Lady Margaret...

Has everyone come around to the realization that novels written now and set in the '60s are considered historical fiction?  Even more, t...