In 1905 Brockton, Massachusetts, Miss Henrietta Maxwell is a busy, eccentric young woman. The tall, bespectacled daughter of a self-made Bos...

Looking ahead to the upcoming season, here are a dozen historical novels that caught my attention. The award-winning Indian author's s...

Allegra Goodman’s newest novel shows how life as a young 16th-century noblewoman offers no guarantees. Not a life of wealth, not a prosperou...

I'm glad to be featuring Kristen Loesch here today with an essay on a unique variation of the multi-period novel.  Her second work of hi...

In the northern California hills in 1953, seven-year-old Lyla Hawkins nervously climbs her grandmother’s live oak to hang a tire swing from ...

For most of 1989, my husband was living in Germany, working for a private company after years of being stationed with the military there. H...

Zeal is an engrossing tale of a heartfelt love born during slavery, and how the couple’s descendants have the potential to embody their for...

I love how Barbara Stark-Nemon's essay about historical research incorporates embroidery, both thematically and literally.  Her new nove...

Stephanie Cowell’s latest novel to explore the inner lives of artistic people from the past reveals the passions of the Brontë sisters, prim...

Welcome to author RJ Verity, who's here today with a post about the role of the cinema in early 20th-century society: the background to ...

At the outset of Anderson-Wheeler’s freshly imagined debut, all the principals of The Great Gatsby are alive and well, years after their in...

In May 1967, Toronto pulses with activity fueled by the counterculture movement, and Sassy Rankin soaks it up while attending the massive lo...

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...