The Girl with the Red Balloon By Katherine Locke Katherine Locke’s novel, The Girl with the Red Balloon, skillfully transports readers to post-World War II East Berlin, where historical fiction ...

This thrilling literary mystery is set in post-World War II Barcelona and follows a young boy, Daniel, a boy whose father ...

Emily Hourican’s debut novel, The Privileged, was published in 2016 to huge success, becoming an instant bestseller. She then ...

In the hands of skilled novelists, the stories of an heiress, a prime minister and a literary mystery woman are brought to ...

a significant portion of this work falls within a highly specific constellation of historical subgenres: contemporary ...

A few relatively inexpensive books — plus some websites — can ensure that your Texas history remains factual. Let's set aside ...

By Alida Becker The Best Historical Fiction of 2023 It’s been a roller coaster of a year. Thankfully, we’ve had novels to whisk us to days gone by, even if those eras had their own highs and lows.

Historical fiction is suddenly everywhere. It’s on the bestseller list, in college classrooms, and probably on the lap of the woman sitting next to you on the train. A genre that at one point felt ...

Yet that rancor was largely forgotten after Pearl Harbor made isolationism moot and the monstrous revelations of the ...

Kathy Kasunich’s first novel was recognized by the Military Writers Society of America with a bronze medal for historical ...

Hilary Mantel’s novel Wolf Hall (2009) is an example of historical fiction. This novel is based on real people and historical events in the court of Henry VIII, but Hilary Mantel also uses her ...

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