Jaime Jo Wright's The Vanishing at Castle Moreau is inspirational gothic suspense taking place at multiple points in time, centering on a castle in Wisconsin and longstanding rumors of women who went missin… 3/31/2024 I'm looking at standout cover designs on some upcoming historical novels.readingthepast.bl… 3/27/2024 Emma Brodie's Songs in Ursa Major follows the bumpy rise to fame of a talented singer-songwriter in 1969 and her equally tumultuous love affair with another performer.readingthepas… 3/24/2024 Charles Frazier's upcoming The Trackers (out in early April), set during the Great Depression, is a novel I really enjoyed.readingthepast.… 3/20/2024 The 1970s are an increasingly popular setting for historical fiction. The themes of T. Greenwood's multi-period novel, set mostly in an artists' community in NYC's West Village, offer many contemporary over… 3/13/2024 In the Upper Country, the debut novel by Kai Thomas, reveals affinities between Black and Indigenous peoples in early Canada and the United States.readingthepast.bl… 3/8/2024 A collection of ten new and upcoming historical novels about women and witchcraft, many of which are based on actual witch trials in centuries past.readingthepast.blog… 3/4/2024 For fans of medieval crime fiction, the latest novel in the Hildegard of Meaux series, set in late 14th-century Yorkshire, offers plenty of tension and an eerie sense of place—as depicted beautifully on the cover.r… 2/25/2024 This unique novel, jointly written by two authors, is a multifaceted portrait of the U.S. Civil War in the South, as seen from the viewpoints of Black and Jewish characters.readingthepa… 2/21/2024 Stealing, Margaret Verble's fourth historical novel, centers on a courageous Cherokee girl sent to a religious boarding school in the 1950s, the events that led to her placement there, and her determination t… 2/15/2024 Review of Natalie Haynes' new Stone Blind, a feminist retelling of the story of Medusa from Greek mythology.readingthepa… 2/11/2024 The Magic Kingdom is the final book by acclaimed novelist Russell Banks, who passed away last month. It's set in early 20th-century Florida, and the title evokes a well-known theme park in that state, but Banks is conce… 2/6/2024 News on historical novels which were awarded prizes at this past weekend's American Library Association conference.readingthepa… 2/1/2024 What happens when you ask ChatGPT to write reviews for historical novels? This little experiment had some enlightening results.readingthepast.bl… 1/27/2024 Full of color and details on women's lives in early 19th-century Salem, Massachusetts, Laurie Lico Albanese's Hester imagines the story behind the writing of The Scarlet Letter.readingthepast.bl… 1/22/2024 One of the best novels I read last year: This Other Eden by Paul Harding, which was inspired by the true history of the racially diverse community who once lived on Maine's Malaga Island.readingthepast.bl… 1/19/2024 Through a Darkening Glass is set in early 1940s England, but unlike other novels set at this time, the focus isn't the war itself. It follows a female student at Cambridge who evacuates to a small Lancashire village and st… 1/15/2024 Some musings on a historical novel title trend I've noticed recently.readingthepast.… 1/10/2024 If you seek out less familiar settings for your historical fiction, how about a new novel set in medieval Moldova? It's based partly on an old regional folktale.readingthepast.b… 1/8/2024 Happy New Year to all this blog's followers, with my best wishes for good reading in the year ahead. My latest post has four mini-reviews for historical novels I'd read in 2024 but hadn't reviewed previously.readingthepa… 1/2/2024 WebReference librarian, readers' advisor, avid historical fiction reader, NBCC member. Book review editor for the Historical Novels Review, regular …
Sarah Johnson, Author at Historical Novel Society
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