New Books in Historical Fiction

Ray Welling, "Byline for the Dead: A Novel of Labor, Conspiracy, a Bloody Uprising and Two Ambitious Journalists" (Sager Group, 2025)

03 May 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Byline for the Dead: A Novel of Labor, Conspiracy, a Bloody Uprising and Two Ambitious Journalists (Sager Group, 2025) is a historical mystery...

Radha Lin Chaddah, "And the Ancestors Sing" (Rising Action, 2026)

21 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Starting in the late 1970s, three women navigate post Cultural Revolution China: Lulu, who’s forced to become a prostitute in Shanghai to save her m...

Linda Hamilton, "The Fourth Wife" (Kensington, 2026)

15 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

There must be a shift in the Zeitgeist of the publishing world, because after a long drought in Gothic novels, this is the second one I’ve encounter...

Janice Hadlow, "Rules of the Heart" (Henry Holt and Company, 2026)

22 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with Janice Hadlow about her fascinating novel, Rules of the Heart (Henry Holt & Company, 2026). A ...

Meg Merriet Wahlberg, "Chivalry in the Shadows" (Parkwood Manor Press, 2024)

19 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Medieval Brittany, with all its contradictions and complexities, comes alive in Meg Wahlberg’s Chivalry in the Shadows (Parkwood Manor Press, 2024...

Christine Estima, "Letters to Kafka" (House of Anansi, 2025)

18 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with Christine Estima about her novel, Letters to Kafka (House of Anansi, 2025).  A sweeping, trag...

Shaunna J. Edwards and Alyson Richman, "The Thread Collectors" (Harper Collins, 2022)

22 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

The Thread Collectors (Harper Collins, 2022) by Shaunna J Edwards and Alyson Richman takes readers to 1863, where, in a small Creole cottage in New O...

Sandra Freels, "Anneke Jans in the New World (She Writes Press, 2026)

20 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

With the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States of America fast approaching, a small flood of novels set in the early days of coloniza...

Princess Joy L. Perry, "This Here Is Love" (W.W. Norton, 2025)

31 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Three people—two enslaved, one indentured—living beside each other, struggling against their circumstances, trying to bend destiny. As the sevent...

Lesley Chamberlain, "The Mozhaisk Road" (Austin Macauley, 2025)

25 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In The Mozhaisk Road (Austin Macauley, 2025) the time is 1978 and Moscow is still the capital of a Communist country. The political pol...

Linda Wilgus, "The Sea Child" (Ballantine, 2026)

20 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Cornwall, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, was best known for its smuggling. The combination of an insular and impoverished countryside, a ...

162 Carlo Rotella's Books in Dark Times (JP)

18 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

For our Pandemic-era Books in Dark Times series, RTB spoke in 2020 with Carlo Rotella of Boston College. Rotella is the author of such gems as Goo...

S.J. Bennett, "The Queen Who Came in from the Cold" (Crooked Lane Books, 2025)

12 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Amateur detectives come in many forms. Owning a bookstore or a bakery, running a charming country inn, working in a library—even owning a cat or a d...

Zeenath Khan, "The Sirens of September" (India Penguin, 2025)

29 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

A sweeping historical coming-of-age novel set against India’s 1948 takeover of Hyderabad, The Sirens of September (India Penguin, 2025) shifts be...

Maren Halvorsen, "The Bailiff’s Wife" (Cuidono Press, 2025)

12 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Despite the long-held perception that medieval and early modern women were as quiet, pious, and obedient as society expected them to be, the truth is ...

William Cooper, "The Trial of Donald H. Rumsfeld" (Dlnp, 2025)

29 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Donald Rumsfeld was a major player in American history. In this riveting alternative history, he's put on trial for his role in the United States 2003...

Katie Tietjen, "Murder in Miniature" (Crooked Lane Books, 2025)

04 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When we meet Maple Bishop in the first book in her series, Death in the Details, she is reeling from a series of life-changing circumstances. Rural V...

Lucy Pick, "The Queen’s Companion" (Cuidono Press, 2025)

11 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Eleanor of Aquitaine is best known as the wife of England’s Henry II, the mother of his numerous children—including two kings, Richard the Lionhea...

Meghana V. Nayak, "Tilt: A Novel on Intergenerational Trauma" (Rowman & Littlefield, 2024)

05 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Kavya is an Indian-American professor and single mother struggling with debilitating panic attacks. Bombarded by flashbacks of cruelty and violence th...

Catherine Merridale, "Moscow Underground" (HarperColins, 2025)

01 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Moscow Underground (HarperCollins, 2025) by Dr. Catherine Merridale is a sweeping novel of life, death and politics in the quicksand world of Stalin'...

Kathleen Kaufman, "The Entirely True Story of the Fantastical Mesmerist Nora Grey" (Kensington Books, 2025)

13 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This fascinating novel—dual-time historical with a fantastical overlay, based in part on the life of the author’s great-grandfather, a nineteenth-...

Sarah Landenwich, "The Fire Concerto" (Union Square Publishing, 2025)

17 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This compelling debut novel explores the interconnected lives of three acclaimed female concert pianists: Clara Bishop; her teacher, Zofia Mikorska; a...

Dennard Dayle, "How to Dodge a Cannonball: A Novel" (Henry Holt, 2025)

06 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

How to Dodge a Cannonball is a razor-sharp satire that dives into the heart of the Civil War, hilariously questioning the essence of the fight, not j...

Jack Wang, "The Riveter" (HarperVia, 2025)

09 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

NBN host Hollay Ghadery speaks with author Jack Wang about his novel, The Riveter (HarperVia, 2025).  In the vein of All the Light We Cannot See,...

Karen Swan, "The Midnight Secret" (Macmillan, 2025)

05 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Keeping details straight while writing a chronologically organized series is difficult enough. Focusing four full-length novels on the events of a sin...

Frank X Walker, "Load in Nine Times: Poems" (Liveright, 2024)

24 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

For decades Frank X Walker has reclaimed essential American lives through his pathbreaking historical poetry. In this stirring new collection, he reim...

Joanna Miller, "The Eights" (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2025)

06 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Joanna Miller’s The Eights (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2025) follows four women attending the University of Oxford in 1920. They are not the first fema...

Tim Welsh, "Ley Lines" (Guernica Editions, 2025)

20 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with debut Toronto author Tim Welsh about his novel, Ley Lines, published by Guernica Editions, 2025....

Alka Joshi, "Six Days in Bombay" (Mira, 2025)

15 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Sona Falstaff, a hospital nurse in Bombay, has things more or less where she wants them. Yes, she faces a certain discrimination, positive and negativ...

Heather Akou, "Afterthought: A Family Story" (Indiana U Libraries, 2025)

22 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Afterthought: A Family Story (Indiana University Bloomington Libraries Publishing, 2025) by Dr. Heather Akou focuses on the life of her grandmother, ...

Victoria Christopher Murray, "Harlem Rhapsody" (Berkley, 2025)

19 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Most people in North America have probably at least heard the name W. E. B. Dubois. In the early twentieth century, DuBois—the first African-America...

Sara Adrien, "Instead of Harmony: A Second Chance Regency Romance" (2023)

01 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Raphael Klonimus battles deep regret. Haunted by losing Laila, he sees himself as a coward for letting her slip away. But fate offers him a second cha...

Elyse Durham, "Maya & Natasha" (Mariner Books, 2025)

18 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

As Nazi tanks roll toward Leningrad in August 1941, an unmarried nineteen-year-old ballerina gives birth to twin girls in the soon-to-be besieged city...

Emily E K Murdoch on the Governess Bureau Series

08 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

When the nobility and gentility of England are at their wits end, they send a discrete note to Miss Vivienne Clarke’s Governess Bureau. Only accepti...

Allegra Goodman, "Isola" (The Dial Press, 2025)

04 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today I talked to Alegra Goodman about her novel Isola (The Dial Press, 2025) After Marguerite is orphaned as a young girl, her guardian leaves her ...

Rod Carley, "Ruff: A Novel" (Latitude 46, 2024)

18 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

RuFF (Latitude 46 Publishing, 2024) is Rod Carley’s highly-anticipated fourth novel. This historical fiction transports us to Elizabethan England, ...

Fiona Davis, "The Stolen Queen" (Dutton, 2025)

09 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Charlotte Cross has built a satisfying career as assistant curator in the Department of Egyptian Art at New York’s Metropolitan Museum. It’s 1978,...

Sara Lodge, "The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective" (Yale UP, 2024)

29 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective (Yale UP, 2024), Sara Lodge tells stories of women who brought 19th century criminals to j...

Kim Fahner, "The Donoghue Girl" (Latitude 46, 2024)

26 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Donoghue Girl (Latitude 46, 2024) is heart-wrenching historical fiction from beloved Canadian author, Kim Fahner. .With her incomparable ability ...

Rob Osler, "The Case of the Missing Maid" (Kensington, 2024)

24 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Set in 1898, Harriet Morrow is 21, supports her 16-year-old brother, and has been accepted as the first female detective at the Prescott Agency. She’...

Robert G. Penner, "The Dark King Swallows the World" (Radiant Press, 2024)

19 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Robert Penner’s best-selling novel, The Dark King Swallows the World (Radiant Press, October 2024) is a phenomenal genre-bending read. A coming-o...

Suzanne Allain, "The Wrong Lady Meets Lord Right" (Berkley Books, 2024)

18 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Arabella Grant doesn’t want to deceive London high society. It’s her cousin Lady Isabella, known as Issie, who convinces Arabella to take over s...

Monica Chenault-Kilgore, "The Jewel of the Blues" (Graydon House, 2024)

19 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Life is tough for people of color in the early twentieth century—not only in the Southern states, which have put Reconstruction firmly behind them i...

A. D. Bergin, "The Wicked of the Earth" (Northodox, 2024)

17 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

October, 1650, traumatised Parliamentarian spy James Archer returns north seeking his sister Meg, missing in the aftermath of Newcastle’s recent wit...

Tim Ecott, "Sigmundur and the Golden Ring" (Sprotin, 2024)

03 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Tim Ecott, who is well-known as a journalist and writer, has, in his last several books, turned his attention to the history and culture of the Faroe...

Nat Reeve, "Earlyfate" (Cipher Press, 2024)

24 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Pip Property is no stranger to disaster. Typically, they’ve got a plan, but now Dallyangle’s favourite dandy & part-time criminal is locked in the...

Vanessa Kelly, "Murder in Highbury" (Kensington, 2024)

21 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

For a woman who published only four novels during her lifetime, with two others appearing shortly after her death and several incomplete or shorter wo...

Cynthia Reeves, "The Last Whaler" (Regal House, 2024)

15 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

After losing their young son in a tragic accident, Astrid, a Norwegian botanist specializing in Arctic flora, decides to join her husband, Tor, at a r...

Anna Rasche, "The Stone Witch of Florence" (Park Row, 2024)

13 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Anna Rasche's debut novel A Stone Witch of Florence (2024, Park Row) brings reader on a historical fiction adventure to Florence. As the Black Plag...

Emma Hinds, "The Knowing" (Bedford Square Publishers, 2024)

04 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In the slums of 19th-century New York. A tattooed mystic fights for her life. Her survival hangs on the turn of a tarot card. Powerful, intoxicating a...

Patrick Hicks, "In the Shadow of Dora: A Novel of the Holocaust and the Apollo Program" (Stephen F. Austin UP, 2020)

28 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In the Shadow of Dora: A Novel of the Holocaust and the Apollo Program (Stephen F. Austin UP, 2020) spans two very different decades from the Nazi co...

Christina Dodd, "A Daughter of Fair Verona" (John Scognamiglio, 2024)

25 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It takes a certain gall to update one of William Shakespeare’s most enduring and most beloved tragedies. Anyone who has survived an English literatu...

F. J. Watson, "Lies of the Flesh" (Polygon, 2024)

23 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

When evil stalks the land, who can you trust? Autumn 1314. In the aftermath of the Scottish victory at the Battle of Bannockburn, the villagers of War...

Peter Rose, "The Good War of Consul Reeves" (Blacksmith Books, 2024)

12 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Macau was supposed to be a sleepy post for John Reeves, the British consul for the Portuguese colony on China’s southern coast. He arrived, alone, i...

Madeline Martin, "The Booklover's Library" (Hanover Square Press, 2024)

10 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Booklover's Library (Hanover Square Press, 2024) has one of the most dramatic openings I’ve ever read, and I’ve read a lot of novels. It’s ...

Jake Lamar, "Viper's Dream" (Crooked Lane Books, 2023)

30 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Jake Lamar's novel Viper's Dream (Crooked Lane Books, 2023) is a gritty, daring look at the vibrant jazz scene of mid-century Harlem, and one man’...

Heather Redmond, "Death and the Visitors" (Kensington, 2024)

19 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Today I talked to Heather Redmond about her new novel Death and the Visitors (Kensington, 2024). In this second Regency-era mystery featuring Mary G...

Orientalism in Representations of Muslims: A Discussion with Laury Silvers

18 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of Radio ReOrient we return to the literary theme of this season, to explore the work of Laury Silvers. Laury is the author of many su...

Eve J. Chung, "Daughters of Shandong" (Berkley Books, 2024)

08 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Daughters of Shandong (Berkley Books, 2024), the author’s first and based on the life of her grandmother, follows the fortunes of a mother and thre...

Nat Reeve, "Nettleblack" (Cipher Press, 2022)

05 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

1893. Henry Nettleblack has to act fast or she’ll be married off by her elder sister. But leaving the safety of her wealthy life isn’t as simple a...

Joanna Lowell, "A Shore Thing" (Berkley Books, 2024)

18 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Joanna Lowell is known for her witty historical romances set in late Victorian England, a period both undergoing and resisting dramatic social change....

Katherine Mezzacappa, "The Maiden of Florence" (Fairlight Books, 2024)

11 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Florence, 1584. Rumours are spreading about the virility of a prince marrying into the powerful Medici family. Orphan Giulia is chosen to put an end t...

Sasha Vasilyuk, "Your Presence Is Mandatory" (Bloomsbury, 2024)

28 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In 2007 Ukraine, following the death of her husband, Yefim Shulman, Nina finds a letter he wrote to the KGB confessing the secret he’d kept for over...

A. Engels, "A Fool for an Heir" (2024)

25 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Few destinies are more challenging than life in the orbit of a man obsessed with expanding his power at all costs. Such is the fate endured by Ivan Iv...

"Akmaral" (Regal House, 2024): A Discussion with Judith Lindbergh

24 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Inspired by the legends of Amazon women warriors told by ancient Greek historian Herodotus and evidenced by recent archaeological discoveries in Centr...

Ruth Reichl, "The Paris Novel" (Random House, 2024)

19 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Stella St. Vincent, a thirty-something copy editor in 1980s New York, has survived a relationship with her mother, Celia, so complicated that even the...

Zhang Ling, "Aftershock" (Amazon Crossing, 2024)

12 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In the summer of 1976, an earthquake swallows up the city of Tangshan, China. Among the hundreds of thousands of people scrambling for survival is a m...

Robin Oliveira, "A Wild and Heavenly Place" (Putnam, 2024)

19 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

When Samuel Fiddes and Hailey MacIntyre meet by chance in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1878, their worlds appear to be far distant from each other. Samuel li...

Harry Turtledove, "Wages of Sin" (Caezik SF & Fantasy, 2024)

26 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What if HIV started spreading in the early 1500s rather than the late 1900s? Without modern medicine, anybody who catches HIV is going to die. In Wag...

Kate Quinn and Janie Chang, "The Phoenix Crown" (William Morrow, 2024)

25 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Kate Quinn and Janie Chang are independently acclaimed authors of historical fiction, both of whom have previously appeared on this podcast channel. H...

Teresa H. Janssen, "The Ways of Water" (She Writes Press, 2023)

06 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Josie Belle Gore is only six years old when we meet her in 1908, yet her father has tied a rope around her waist and is lowering her into a dark well ...

Jon Clinch, "The General and Julia" (Atria Books, 2023)

30 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Barely able to walk and rendered mute by the cancer metastasizing in his throat, Ulysses S. Grant is scratching out words, hour after hour, day after ...

Andrea Penrose, "The Diamond of London" (Kensington Books, 2024)

23 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

I’ve interviewed Andrea Penrose before about her mysteries set in the Regency period—most notably, her ongoing series starring the Earl of Wrexfor...

Katherine Vaz, "Above the Salt" (Flatiron Books, 2023)

12 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Today I talked to Katherine Vaz about her new novel Above the Salt (Flatiron Books, 2023). In 1843-1846, on the Portuguese island of Madeira, five-y...

Isa Arsén, "Shoot the Moon" (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2023)

11 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Annie Fisk—an only child in Los Alamos, New Mexico—spends a lot of time investigating the treasure trove of objects at the back of her garden. Her...

Alix Christie, "The Shining Mountains" (High Road Books, 2023)

05 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Angus McDonald had to escape from Scotland or risk arrest. In 1838, he contracted with the Hudson Bay Company to trade in the Pacific Northwest. There...

Alice Simpson, "The Winthrop Agreement: A Novel" (Harper Paperbacks, 2023)

21 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Rivkah Milman is just one of the thousands of young women who fled their homes in Eastern Europe in the late nineteenth century, looking for better pr...

Annie Dawid, "Paradise Undone: A Novel of Jonestown" (Inkspot, 2023)

14 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Paradise Undone: A Novel of Jonestown by Annie Dawid, (Inkspot Publishing 2023), opens long after 917 people died by drinking cyanide or by lethal in...

Kim Taylor Blakemore, "The Good Time Girls Get Famous" (Sycamore Creek Press, 2023)

07 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Today I talked to Kim Taylor Blakemore about her new book The Good Time Girls Get Famous (Sycamore Creek Press, 2023). Get ready for the latest rip...

Stephanie Cowell, "The Boy in the Rain" (Regal House Publishing, 2023)

19 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Robert Stillman, an eighteen-year-old Londoner, has few expectations when he travels to Nottingham to study with the Reverend George Langstaff. Life h...

Sherif M. Meleka, "Suleiman's Ring" (Hoopoe, 2023)

11 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Today I talked to Sherif Meleka about his novel Suleiman’s Ring (Hoopoe, 2023) An enchanted ring brings good fortune to an Egyptian oud player in ...

Louise Hare, "Harlem After Midnight" (Berkley Books, 2023)

18 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

After a tumultuous journey across the Atlantic (detailed in last year’s Miss Aldridge Regrets), Lena Aldridge has reached New York City only to dis...

A Better Way to Buy Books

12 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Bookshop.org is an online book retailer that donates more than 80% of its profits to independent bookstores. Launched in 2020, Bookshop.org has alre...

On the Secrets of Writing Historical Fiction with Burt Solomon, author of "The Murder of Andrew Johnson"

02 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The Murder of Andrew Johnson (Forge, 2023) is the third in Burt Solomon’s John Hay Mystery trilogy. Our conversation explores the art and craft of...

Andrew Varga, "The Last Saxon King: A Jump in Time Novel (Book One)" (Imbrifex Books, 2023)

01 Sep 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Daniel Renfrew is a typical American sixteen-year-old. His main gripe when the story opens is that his dad insists on home schooling even though Danie...

Jerome Charyn, "Ravage & Son" (Bellevue Literary Press, 2023)

31 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Ravage & Son (Bellevue Literary Press, 2023) by Jerome Charyn is a novel set in the Lower East Side of New York City in the early years of the twenti...

Olesya Salnikova Gilmore, "The Witch and the Tsar" (Ace Books, 2022)

18 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Any novel set in Russia during the reign of Ivan the Terrible (1533–1584) is an instant draw for me; that is, after all, the setting for most of my ...

Lauren Willig, "The Summer Country" (William Morrow, 2019)

16 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

When Emily Dawson inherits a plantation in Barbados from her grandfather, Jonathan Fenty, in 1854, she is not quite sure what to make of the bequest. ...

Joshua Cohen’s "The Netanyahus" (JP, Eugene Sheppard)

03 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

n this episode (originally aired by our partner Novel Dialogue) John and his Brandeis colleague Eugene Sheppard speak with Joshua Cohen about T...

Elizabeth Graver, "Kantika: A Novel" (Metropolitan Books, 2023)

01 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Today I talked to Elizabeth Graver about her new novel Kantika (Metropolitan Books, 2023). Rebecca Cohen and her family live in Istanbul, until the...

Jeri Westerson, "The Isolated Séance" (Severn House, 2023)

18 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Today I talked to Jeri Westerson about her book The Isolated Séance (Severn House, 2023). It’s 1895, and Tim Badger, who is quite familiar with ...

Jennifer Savran Kelly, "Endpapers" (Algonquin Books, 2023)

17 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Today I talked to Jennifer Savran Kelly her new book Endpapers (Algonquin Books, 2023). Dawn Levit has reached a crossroads in life. What seemed l...

Meryl Ain, "Shadows We Carry" (Sparkspress, 2023)

04 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Meryl Ain's Shadows We Carry (Sparkspress, 2023) is a follow-up to the author’s 2020 novel, The Takeaway Men, focuses on fraternal twins Bronka ...

Peter Mann, "The Torqued Man" (Harper Perennial, 2022)

02 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Today I talked to Peter Mann about his book The Torqued Man (Harper Perennial, 2022). Berlin—September, 1945. Two manuscripts are found in rubbl...

Ginny Kubitz Moyer, "The Seeing Garden" (She Writes Press, 2023)

30 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Nineteen-year-old Catherine Ogden appears to have everything: youth, wealth, birth, breeding, and beauty. No one in New York high society is surprised...

Anna Lee Huber, "A Fatal Illusion" (Berkley Books, 2023)

20 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

A Fatal Illusion (Berkley Books, 2023)—the eleventh installment in Anna Lee Huber’s Lady Darby Mysteries featuring Kiera and Sebastian Gage—ope...

The Lost Journals of Sacajewea

15 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Today’s book is: The Lost Journals of Sacajewea (Milkweed Editions, 2023), by Debra Magpie Earling, which is a devastatingly beautiful novel that ...

Liisa Kovala, "Sisu's Winter War" (Latitude 46, 2022)

09 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Today I talked to Liisa Kovala about her new novel Sisu's Winter War (Latitude 46, 2022). Meri Saari made a promise to her dying mother she would...

Katharine Beutner, "Killingly" (Soho Press, 2023)

05 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In 1897, a Mount Holyoke College junior named Bertha Mellish disappears from campus overnight, leaving no word for her family. It’s a time when fema...

Aomar Boum, "Undesirables: A Holocaust Journey to North Africa" (Stanford UP, 2023)

26 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In the lead-up to World War II, the rising tide of fascism and antisemitism in Europe foreshadowed Hitler's genocidal campaign against Jews. But the h...