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 ]
This morning, Publishers Marketplace reported that two-time Booker Prize winner and historical fiction supremo Hilary Mantel has a new short story collection on the horizon. Learning to Talk, which will be released by Holt at some point next year, is billed as “a collection of loosely... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-11-18 18:07:12 UTC ]
Author Shirley Jackson often responded to readers’ letters; this one, written in 1962 after republication of her historical fiction for juveniles, The Witchcraft of Salem Village, seems uncannily prescient for our times. –Laurence Jackson Hyman, editor of the forthcoming The Collected Letters of... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-10-30 08:49:48 UTC ]
Bi and lesbian books from the last two decades for fans of literary fiction, from haunting collections to atmospheric historical fiction like Miss Timmins’ School for Girls by Nayana Currimbhoy. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2020-10-02 10:38:36 UTC ]
How historical fiction gave one reader deeper and more vivid insights into history and guided her career in teaching and librarianship. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2020-09-28 10:35:00 UTC ]
Viking has acquired a historical debut by Annie Garthwaite, reimagining the story of Cecily Neville, the Duchess of York and mother to two kings of England—Edward IV and Richard III. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-09-16 20:07:38 UTC ]
From contemporary and historical fiction to science fiction and fantasy, including Forest of a Thousand Lanterns by Julie C. Dao, these 21 books are must-reads for 12th graders. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2020-09-03 10:33:00 UTC ]
Gollancz has landed a sci-fi debut by fantasy novelist Miles Cameron, who also writes historical fiction as Christian Cameron. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-08-26 17:11:19 UTC ]