Get to know the facts and the legend surrounding Sisi, Empress of Austria, through these historical fiction and nonfiction books. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2019-11-12 11:40:14 UTC ]
The Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction is celebrating its 10th anniversary with a poll to find the nation’s favourite historical novel. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-11-08 03:53:44 UTC ]
Looking for your next favorite book? Check out these new historical fiction books, full of beautiful prose, dynamic characters, and captivating settings. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2019-10-25 10:39:52 UTC ]
Historical fiction writer Ben Kane has signed a three-book deal with Orion Fiction for a new series of novels exploring Richard the Lionheart. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-10-22 16:48:55 UTC ]
Learn about times and places of yore and get captivated by its imagined characters with these compelling YA historical fiction stories. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2019-10-10 10:32:41 UTC ]
Though she made her mark writing contemporary romance, Moyes proves just as adept at historical fiction. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2019-10-03 15:31:45 UTC ]
Interviews Renee H. Shea Monique Truong / Photo © Haruka Sakaguchi Monique Truong, who came to the United States in 1975 as a refugee from Vietnam, began exploring untold and ignored histories in her first novel, The Book of Salt (2003), told through... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2019-09-17 13:54:26 UTC ]
Think you don't like historical fiction? Try these books out and prove yourself wrong. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2019-09-14 10:33:10 UTC ]
Literary agents are gatekeepers of the publishing industry. Find historical fiction literary agents open to submissions in this post. List will be updated regularly. The post Historical Fiction Literary Agents Open to Submissions by Robert Lee Brewer appeared first on Writer's Digest. Continue reading >> [ Source: Writer's Digest | 2019-09-11 12:59:53 UTC ]
“The phrase ‘common-or-garden dick’ in a medieval poem? Yes, please.” On the gleefully indecent lines of the Medieval Welsh feminist poet Gwerful Mechain. | Lit Hub For the anxious historical fiction writer, Caitlin Horrocks offers some permissions for writing into the past. | Lit Hub “As a... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2019-08-09 10:30:36 UTC ]
The Amazon review for my debut novel was glowing, including words like “compelling” and “fun.” And then there was this: “If you love historical fiction, you’ll love The Last Book Party.” Say what? How could my novel, which is set during the 1980s—a decade of my own youth—be historical fiction?... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2019-08-01 11:00:53 UTC ]
The Spanish philosopher and poet George Santayana once said, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” As a genre, historical fiction allows us to shuttle back in time to stand in the shoes, clogs, chopines, and go-go boots of people—real and imagined—to consider the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2019-07-15 11:00:13 UTC ]
Historical fiction authors bring textbook events to life. By creating backstories and intricate narratives, authors can turn a few lines ... Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2019-06-28 10:36:47 UTC ]
Robin Robertson has become the first Scot to win the £25,000 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction with his book The Long Take (Picador). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-06-17 13:23:17 UTC ]
A “dazzling” six-book shortlist has been announced for the £25,000 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, which celebrates its 10th anniversary this year. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-04-02 00:00:00 UTC ]
For nearly 20 years, Namwali Serpell has been writing “The Old Drift.” If you don’t find that fact alone to be staggering, consider this: The 576-page book blends English with a multitude of Bantu languages spoken in Zambia. Incorporating elements of historical fiction, sci-fi, magical realism,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2019-03-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
The Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction has unveiled its longlist, as the chair of the judges warns choosing a shortlist “from these corkers is going to be a tough task”. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-03-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
In Germany, Turning Point, the finale of Carmen Korn’s Century Trilogy, a historical series about four women in the 20th century, topped the fiction bestseller list in September, and prolific mystery novelist Charlotte Link was in second with The Search, about a missing teen. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-10-19 00:00:00 UTC ]
In her first work of historical fiction, bestselling author Patti Callahan explores the life and love of Joy Davidman, the wife of C.S. Lewis. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2018-08-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Bloomsbury has snapped up an "exquisite" novel and a short story collection about flawed masculinity from Benjamin Myers six weeks after he scooped the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction for his book published by Bluemoose Books. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2018-08-02 00:00:00 UTC ]