Joanna Fitzpatrick, "The Artist Colony" (She Writes Press, 2021)
By 1924, Sarah Cunningham has spent years in France establishing her own artistic style, more contemporary than the landscapes that have made her olde...
New Books in Historical Fiction
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Interview with Writers of Historical Fiction about their New Books
Rhys Bowen, "God Rest Ye, Royal Gentlemen" (Penguin, 2021)
Back in the days when brick-and-mortar bookstores were common in suburban America, I was browsing the shelves at my local Borders when a title caught ...
Garrett Hutson, "No Accidental Death" (Warfleigh Publishing, 2021)
Despite the deluge of novels about World War II that has characterized the last few years, the period leading up to the war on the Pacific Front has r...
Gill Paul, "The Collector's Daughter: A Novel of the Discovery of Tutankhamun's Tomb" (William Morrow, 2021)
The discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings almost a century ago revolutionized the study of ancient Egypt and its pharaohs. Th...
Trisha R. Thomas, "What Passes as Love" (Lake Union Publishing, 2021)
Today I talked to Trisha R. Thomas about her new novel What Passes as Love (Lake Union Publishing, 2021). In 1850, at age six, Dahlia Holt is taken fr...
Jeanne Matthews, "Devil by the Tail" (D.X. Varos, 2021)
Today I talked to Jeanne Matthews about her new novel Devil by the Tail (D.X. Varos, 2021) It’s 1867, and a 20-something civil war widow has just set ...
Mary Martin Devlin, "The La Motte Woman" (Cuidono Press, 2021)
Jeanne de St.-Rémy has a grudge against the world. Born into the French royal family—if admittedly by a somewhat labyrinthine route—she spends years o...
Ron Nyren, "The Book of Lost Light" (Black Lawrence Press, 2019)
Ron Nyren’s The Book of Lost Light—winner of Black Lawrence Press’s 2019 Big Moose Prize and finalist in the 2020 David J. Langum, Sr. Prize in Americ...
Jessica Barksdale Inclán, "The Play's the Thing" (TouchPoint Press, 2021)
In a sense, those of us who love historical fiction live vicariously in the past. Many of us also fantasize about traveling in time—meeting our favori...
Larry Feign, "The Flower Boat Girl: A Novel Based on a True Story" (Top Floor Books, 2021)
It can be easy to forget amongst the glistening skyscrapers, bustling streets and neon lights, but the Pearl River Delta used to be a haven for bandit...