Check out the latest pick from Reese's Book Club--a YA historical fiction set in the New South--and #ReadWithReese this summer. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2021-07-20 19:01:58 UTC ]
Author and journalist Ann Rinaldi, best known for her painstakingly researched YA historical fiction featuring female protagonists, died on July 1 in Branchburg, N.J.; she was 86. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-07-15 04:00:00 UTC ]
A K Blakemore has won the £10,000 Desmond Elliott Prize for her "stunning" historical fiction novel The Manningtree Witches (Granta Books). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-07-01 17:06:17 UTC ]
Immerse yourself in history from highwaymen to Hollywood starlets with 25 of the best queer historical fiction books to get lost in. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2021-06-25 10:33:00 UTC ]
Historical fiction was once considered a fusty backwater. Now the genre is having a renaissance, attracting first-rank novelists and racking up major prizes. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-06-13 09:00:02 UTC ]
'Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch,' historical fiction about Kepler's mother, is Galchen's first novel since 2008's 'Atmospheric Disturbances.' Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2021-06-03 14:00:33 UTC ]
New novels — by turns salty, sweeping and sweet — will transport you to 1930s Italy, 19th-century England and San Francisco a hundred years ago. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-05-27 13:55:12 UTC ]
The arresting tale of a “lady pilot” in the mid-20th century is interwoven with the story of a modern-day Hollywood actress. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2021-05-03 09:40:22 UTC ]
Every love story is built with inherently high stakes. After all, a heart can be the ultimate prize, and courtship a most dangerous risk. And love, as we all know, won’t stop for much. Our hearts pay no attention to timing or impediments, and logic falls by the wayside as we feel the anguish of... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2021-04-28 11:00:00 UTC ]
Set in the wake of Germany’s reunification, “The Recent East” follows a country coming together and a teen-ager coming out. Continue reading >> [ Source: New Yorker | 2021-04-12 10:00:00 UTC ]
Discover the rich culture and history of Cuba with these stories, from romance to historical fiction and magical realism. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2021-04-01 10:30:00 UTC ]
Islands of Mercy by Rose Tremain and The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams, both published by Chatto & Windus, are among titles longlisted for this year's £25,000 Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-02-22 15:59:07 UTC ]
Welbeck Publishing Group has acquired an epic historical fiction series by Dr Hilary Jones, the general practitioner and media doctor. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-02-12 01:43:04 UTC ]
If you enjoyed Maggie O'Farrell's historical fiction about Shakespeare's son, check out these thematically similar books like HAMNET. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2021-02-03 11:37:00 UTC ]
The author of best-selling books set in medieval England and Wales, she insisted that historical fiction had an obligation to the facts. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-01-29 22:25:25 UTC ]
Tributes have been paid to US author Sharon Penman, a “giant” of historical fiction, who has passed away at the age of 75. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-01-28 04:51:02 UTC ]
In this Read Harder Challenge post, we're recommending books for the task asking you to read a historical fiction with a POC or LGBTQ+ protagonist. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2021-01-11 11:31:00 UTC ]
It’s a truism that historical fiction reveals more about its own age it than the one it portrays. We can’t escape or even perceive our own biases, the reasoning goes, so we end up helplessly projecting them onto a past where they don’t belong. But the past is not a museum, and contemporary... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2021-01-08 12:00:00 UTC ]
Find the best historical fiction series that both engages and entertains, with lively and diverse characters. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2020-12-18 11:38:00 UTC ]
These eight brilliant novels of historical fiction featuring intergenerational family sagas tell sweeping and epic tales, including Disoriental by Négar Djavadi, translated by Tina A. Kover. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2020-12-16 11:39:00 UTC ]