New Books in Historical Fiction
Episodes
Erika Rummel, "The Road to Gesualdo" (D. X. Varos, 2020)
30 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The Italian Renaissance introduced—or reintroduced—many valuable concepts to society and culture, giving rise eventually to our modern world. But ...
Bill LeFurgy, "Into the Suffering City: A Novel of Baltimore" (High Kicker Books, 2020)
28 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In Bill LeFurgy's Into the Suffering City: A Novel of Baltimore (High Kicker Books), Sarah Kennecott is a brilliant young doctor who cares deeply ab...
Will Thomas, "Lethal Pursuit" (Minotaur, 2019)
02 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
London, 1892. Private enquiry agents Cyrus Barker and Thomas Llewelyn have been tasked by the Prime Minister to deliver a satchel to the Vatican. The ...
Janie Chang, "The Library of Legends" (William Morrow, 2020)
19 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Perhaps in anticipation of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the armistice, or just the reality that the last survivors will not be with us much longer...
Brian Greene, "Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe" (Random House, 2020)
02 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Brian Greene is a Professor of Mathematics and Physics at Columbia University in the City of New York, where he is the Director of the Institute for S...
Chip Jacobs, "Arroyo" (Rare Birds Books, 2019)
22 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Two guys named Nick Chance, both with clairvoyant dogs named Royo, both inventors living in Pasadena, California – in 1913 and 1993. The original Ni...
Janice Hadlow, "The Other Bennet Sister" (Henry Holt, 2020)
06 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
It is well known that the novels of Jane Austen (1775–1817), which enjoyed at best a modest success during her lifetime, have become ever more popul...
Leslie M. Harris, "Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies" (U Georgia Press, 2019)
28 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Slavery and the University: Histories and Legacies (University of Georgia Press, 2019), edited by Leslie M. Harris, James T. Campbell, and Alfred L. B...
Mari Coates, "The Pelton Papers" (She Writes Press, 2020)
13 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Like the better-known and perhaps luckier Georgia O’Keeffe, the American painter Agnes Pelton also found her unique vision in the western desert. As...
Maya Rodale, "An Heiress to Remember" (Avon Books, 2020)
12 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
As Maya Rodale notes early in this interview, romance novels tend not to get the same respect as other categories of fiction, historical or otherwise...
Laura Waterman, "Starvation Shore" (U Wisconsin Press, 2019)
28 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Laura Waterman talks about her novel, Starvation Shore (University of Wisconsin Press, 2019), which relies upon memoirs, letters, and diaries to recon...
Emily Strelow, "The Wild Birds" (Rare Bird Books, 2018)
26 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
An orphaned young woman disguises herself as a boy in order to escape the dangers of being alone in 1870’s San Francisco. A group of castoffs destro...
Phillipa Chong, “Inside the Critics’ Circle: Book Reviewing in Uncertain Times” (Princeton UP, 2020)
25 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
How does the world of book reviews work? In Inside the Critics’ Circle: Book Reviewing in Uncertain Times (Princeton University Press, 2020), Philli...
Gabrielle Mathieu, "Girl of Fire" (Five Directions Press, 2019)
20 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In the fantasy medieval land of Trea—a conservative society that despite its worship of the goddess Amur respects her human daughters only as wives ...
Joan Schweighardt, "Gifts for the Dead" (Five Directions Press, 2019)
06 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Last summer, massive fires in the Amazon rain forest provoked environmental concerns around the world. But the history of exploitation—of the natura...
Serena Burdick, "The Girls with No Names" (Park Row Books, 2020)
09 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Effie Tildon loves her older sister, Luella. Sixteen to Effie’s thirteen, Luella has long taken the leading role in deciding what the two sisters do...
Katherine Kayne, "Bound in Flame" (Passionflower Press, 2019)
20 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Leticia Liliuokalani Lang, better known as Letty, has good intentions, but her strong will and quick temper tend to get in her way. Banished from her ...
Kathryn Conrad on University Press Publishing
03 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
As you may know, university presses publish a lot of good books. In fact, they publish thousands of them every year. They are different from most trad...
Charles Todd, "A Cruel Deception" (William Morrow, 2019)
29 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Writing novels—never mind entire series—takes determination, persistence, imagination, and craft. Charles Todd has added to those natural challen...
Talia Carner, "The Third Daughter" (William Morrow, 2019)
21 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
As revealed by the title of Talia Carner’s latest novel, The Third Daughter (William Morrow, 2019), her heroine, Batya, has two older sisters. Both ...
Sofia Grant, "Lies in White Dresses" (William Morrow, 2019)
03 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Francie Meeker and her best friend, Vi Carothers, bought into the promise offered to middle-class, especially white, women in the mid-twentieth-centur...
Gill Paul, "The Lost Daughter" (William Morrow, 2019)
16 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Grand Duchess Maria Romanova arrives in Ekaterinburg in 1918 with her parents, the former Tsar Nicholas II and his wife, Alexandra. After months of ho...
Linnea Hartsuyker, "The Golden Wolf" (Harper, 2019)
16 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
When I spoke with Linnea Hartsuyker back in 2017, her epic saga was just beginning. The first novel opens with her hero, Ragnvald, seeing a vision of ...
Kate Braithwaite, "The Girl Puzzle" (Crooked Cat Books, 2019)
05 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Nellie Bly is in some respects a household name, yet the passage of time has erased many of her accomplishments from popular memory. One of the first ...
Laury Silvers, “The Lover” (Kindle Direct Publishers, 2019)
05 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Zaytuna just wants to be left alone to her ascetic practices and nurse her dark view of the world. But when an impoverished servant girl she barely kn...
C. W. Gortner, "The Romanov Empress: A Novel of Tsarina Maria Feodorovna" (Ballentine Books, 2018)
16 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
101 years have passed since the murder of the Imperial Family of Russia at Yekaterinburg, but their appeal has not diminished. Indeed, interest in t...
Adrienne Celt, "Invitation to a Bonfire" (Bloomsbury, 2018)
05 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Zoya Andropova—soon to be known in her adopted country as Zoë Andropov—didn’t ask to be rescued from her Soviet orphanage, even after the arres...
Ana Johns, "The Woman in the White Kimono" (Park Row Books, 2019)
11 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Naoko Nakamura is only seventeen when she falls madly in love with an American navy man. It’s 1957, and the US occupation of Japan has ended just a ...
Ann Weisgarber, "The Glovemaker" (Skyhorse Publishing, 2019)
10 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
When a strange man knocks on Deborah Tyler’s door one January evening in 1888, she faces a difficult decision. She can guess that her visitor is a c...
Elsa Hart, "City of Ink" (Minotaur Books, 2018)
26 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
If there is one thing more fun than discovering a new (to oneself) author, it is discovering a new author with a series already well underway. In City...
Madeline Miller, "Circe" (Little, Brown and Company, 2018)
08 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Circe is an immortal naiad, the daughter of the Sun God, Helios. Ignored or belittled by her divine kin because of her human-sounding voice, dull-colo...
Liza Perrat, "The Swooping Magpie" (Triskele Books, 2019)
04 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lindsay Townsend is doing well at her high school in Wollongong, Australia. She’s pretty and popular and smart enough that she can spend as much tim...
Rosellen Brown, "The Lake on Fire" (Sarabande Books, 2018)
26 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Against the backdrop of a gritty 1890’s Chicago teaming with labor problems, filthy sweatshops, and putrid stockyards, two young immigrants struggle...
C.P. Lesley, "Song of the Siren" (Five Directions Press, 2019)
25 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Since being sold into slavery as a child and working her way up to becoming concubine and mistress for several different men, Lady Juliana's survival ...
Joan Neuberger, "This Thing of Darkness: Eisenstein’s Ivan the Terrible in Stalin’s Russia" (Cornell UP, 2019)
21 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Most of the time, this podcast focuses on the products of those who create historical fiction—specifically, novels. But what goes into producing a w...
Kate Quinn, "The Huntress" (William Morrow, 2019)
27 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
When we think of World War II, we envision a catastrophe of massive proportions: millions killed in concentration camps, on the battlefield, during bo...
Pam Jenoff, "The Lost Girls of Paris" (Park Row Books, 2019)
06 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Although World War II has long been a favorite subject in both literature and history, a new interest seems to have developed in the multiple roles pl...
Yang-Sze Choo, "The Night Tiger" (Flatiron Books, 2019)
06 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The Night Tiger (Flatiron Books, 2019) is much more than just a fantasy novel—it’s also a mystery, a historical novel, and a love story. Yang-Sze ...
Terry Gamble, "The Eulogist" (William Morrow, 2019)
24 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
When Olivia Givens and her family leave Ireland in 1819, they have no idea that they are distant victims of a volcanic eruption in Indonesia four year...
P. K. Adams, "The Greenest Branch" (Iron Knight Press, 2018)
09 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The twelfth-century German abbess Hildegard of Bingen was a remarkable woman by any standards. Known for her musical compositions and mystical prayers...
Samantha Silva, "Mr. Dickens and His Carol" (Flatiron Books, 2018)
13 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Christmas is not looking bright for Charles Dickens. His latest novel has proven a massive flop, and that upstart William Thackeray doesn’t miss an ...
Lee Zacharias, “Across the Great Lake” (U Wisconsin Press, 2018)
02 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Lake Michigan in 1936 is an essential commercial seaway, one that captains and their crews must cross regularly no matter the season, breaking massive...
Bernard Cornwell, “War of the Wolf” (Harper, 2018)
02 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
As seems appropriate for a character as resourceful, skilled, and self-confident as Uhtred of Bebbanburg, he goes from strength to strength. In additi...
Leslie Schweitzer Miller, “Discovery” (Notramour Press, 2018)
26 Sep 2018
Contributed by Lukas
When Giselle Gélis runs into David Rettig at a biblical studies conference, she’s not expecting a life-changing experience. On the contrary, the th...
Jacqueline Friedland, “Trouble the Water” (SparkPress, 2018)
17 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Douglas Elling has left his home town in England and made a name for himself in Charleston. It’s about twenty years before the US Civil War, and sla...
Nick Dybek, “The Verdun Affair: A Novel” (Scribner, 2018)
14 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In a break with protocol, I decided to interview a novelist rather than a military historian. Nick Dybek, a creative writing professor at Oregon State...
Robert Goolrick, “The Dying of the Light” (Harper, 2018)
18 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
“It begins with a house and it ends in ashes.” So opens Robert Goolrick’s rich, lyrical new novel, The Dying of the Light (Harper, 2018). The ho...
Danielle Teller, “All the Ever Afters: The Untold Story of Cinderella’s Stepmother” (William Morrow, 2018)
07 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Most of us hear the Cinderella story in childhood: a mean stepmother favors her own daughters and controls her hapless husband, turning the sweet and ...
Ellen Notbohm, “The River by Starlight” (She Writes Press, 2018)
16 May 2018
Contributed by Lukas
When Annie Rushton heads west to keep house for her older brother on his Montana homestead, she expects to leave marriage and motherhood behind her. A...
Adrienne Sharp, “The Magnificent Esme Wells” (Harper, 2018)
18 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
At six, Esme Wells has never attended school, but she has already learned how to take care of her father: accompany him to the racetrack, load up on h...
John Richard Bell, “The Circumstantial Enemy” (Endeavour Press, 2017)
04 Apr 2018
Contributed by Lukas
We all imagine that, when put to the test, we will end up on the right side of history, however we define it. Nowhere is that statement more true than...
Claudia H. Long, “Chains of Silver” (Five Directions Press, 2018)
21 Mar 2018
Contributed by Lukas
From the fifteenth through the early eighteenth centuries, the Catholic authorities in Spain and its colonies, including Mexico, took a hard line agai...
Gwen C. Katz, “Among the Red Stars” (Harper Teen, 2017)
02 Feb 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Valentina (Valka) Koroleva and her cousin Iskra share a dream: to fly in defense of their Soviet motherland against the Nazi forces that have launched...
Hazel Gaynor and Heather Webb, “Last Christmas in Paris” (William Morrow, 2017)
20 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
When we first meet Thomas Harding in 1968, he is facing what he believes will be his last Christmas and mourning the loss of an unnamed woman who clea...
Octavia Randolph, “Silver Hammer, Golden Cross” (Pyewacket Press, 2017)
12 Dec 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Silver Hammer, Golden Cross (Pyewacket Press, 2017) is sixth in the series of the Circle of Ceridwen series. It begins by exploring the friendship of ...
Barbary Ridley, “When It’s Over” (She Writes Press, 2017)
22 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
For some reason, books occasionally arrive in pairs—meaning that out of nowhere a topic that has received little attention convinces two or more wri...
Judithe Little, “Wickwythe Hall” (Black Opal Books, 2017)
22 Nov 2017
Contributed by Lukas
For some reason, books occasionally arrive in pairs—meaning that out of nowhere a topic that has received little attention convinces two or more wri...
Charlene Ball, “Dark Lady: A Novel of Emilia Bassano Lanyer” (She Writes Press, 2017)
24 Oct 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Emilia Bassano loves many things: music, poetry, Latin, herbs. Born to a family of Italian musicians living in sixteenth-century London, Emilia benefi...
Elizabeth Peters and Joan Hess, “The Painted Queen” (William Morrow, 2017)
13 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Even a novelist with thirty-five books under her belt would find it difficult to finish someone else’s series, set in a relatively unfamiliar part o...
Beverly Jenkins, “Chasing Down a Dream: A Blessings Novel” (William Morrow Paperbacks, 2017)
07 Sep 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The Blessings Series continue with a heartwarming novel, Chasing Down a Dream (William Morrow Paperbacks, 2017), about what makes a family when trials...
T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting, “Bricktop’s Paris: African American Women in Paris between the Two World Wars (SUNY Press, 2015)
26 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
When Dorothy Sterling wrote her book about nineteenth-century black women in America, she stated in the introduction that the book was not a definitiv...
Linnea Hartsuyker, “The Half-Drowned King” (Harper, 2017)
23 Aug 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Ragnvald Eysteinsson is returning from years raiding in Ireland under the leadership of Solvi and focused on winning a contest with his fellow sailors...
Beatriz Williams, “Cocoa Beach” (HarperCollins, 2017)
25 Jul 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The State of Florida might have been designed for Prohibition. Its long coastline, its proximity to the Caribbean sources of rum, and (in 1922) its va...
Marlene Banks, “Ruth’s Redemption” (Lift Every Voice, 2012)
27 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
It’s A Love Story. Set in the 1800s, Ruth’s Redemption (Lift Every Voice, 2012), is an unusual depiction of the lives of slaves and free blacks i...
Kathy Wilson Florence, “Jaybird’s Song” (Kathy Wilson Florence, 2017)
20 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Josie Flint, known as Jaybird, narrates her story of life in Atlanta during the turbulent South as Jim Crow laws come to an end. Her school desegregat...
Gabrielle Mathieu, “The Falcon Flies Alone” (Five Directions Press, 2016)
18 Jun 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Peppa Mueller has a lot going for her. The daughter of a deceased Harvard professor who gave her an eclectic upbringing, she is heir to his fortune, a...
Michelle Cox, “A Girl Like You: A Henrietta and Inspector Howard Novel (She Writes Press, 2016)
22 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
It’s January 1935. Prohibition has just ended, but the Great Depression has not, and much of Chicago remains under the grip of the crime lords who p...
Assaph Mehr, “Murder in Absentia: A Story of Togas, Daggers, and Magic” (Purple Toga Publications, 2015)
19 May 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Assaph Mehr‘s Murder in Absentia: A Story of Togas, Daggers, and Magic (Purple Toga Publications, 2015) is Egretia, a town in a fantasy world modele...
Tiffany Reisz, “The Night Mark” (Mira Books, 2017)
23 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
So many people hope to find the perfect soul mate, but suppose you do, only to lose the person you love just as your life together is getting off to a...
Marlene Banks, “Son of A Preacher Man” and “Greenwood and Archer” (Lift Every Voice, 2012)
05 Apr 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The tragic Tulsa Race Riots plus a smidgeon of romance equals to a compelling historical saga. Marlene Banks weaves fact and fiction together illustra...
Ronald E. Yates, “The Improbable Journeys of Billy Battles” (Xlibris, 2016)
20 Mar 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Journalism, history, biography, memoirs, and historical fiction overlap to some degree. The first two focus on provable facts, but the facts must be a...
Bren McClain, “One Good Mama Bone” (Story River Books, 2017)
17 Feb 2017
Contributed by Lukas
Once in a while, a novel comes along that is just extraordinary, in the best sense of that word. Bren McClain’s One Good Mama Bone (Story River Book...
Helen Rappaport, “Victoria: The Heart and Mind of a Young Queen” (Harper Design, 2017)
10 Jan 2017
Contributed by Lukas
The term historical fiction covers a wide range from what the mystery writer Josephine Tey once dubbed “history with conversation” to outright inv...
Bernard Cornwell, “The Flame Bearer” (Harper, 2016)
09 Dec 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Here at New Books in Historical Fiction, we don’t often interview the same author twice. Bernard Cornwell is an exception. As I note in my introduct...
Ursula LeCoeur, “The Devious Dubutante” (Royal Street Publishing, 2015)
23 Nov 2016
Contributed by Lukas
So far, this podcast has focused on straight historical fiction rather than historical romance. Although love stories have a way of creeping into nove...
Kate Braithwaite, “Charlatan” (Fireship Press, 2016)
28 Oct 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Paris, 1676. At the house of the fortuneteller Catherine Montvoisin (La Voisin), while two hooded forms watch, a wayward priest burns a piece of parch...
Martha Conway, “Sugarland: A Jazz Age Mystery” (Noontime Books, 2016)
30 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
It’s 1921, and Prohibition is in full swing, but you wouldn’t know it from the nightclubs and speakeasies of Chicago, where bathtub gin mingles wi...
Linda Kass, “Tasa’s Song” (She Writes Press, 2016)
07 Sep 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Although the Holocaust inflicted extreme brutality wherever it occurred, the specific events associated with the violence differed from one place to a...
C.P. Lesley, “The Swan Princess” (Five Directions Press, 2016)
12 Aug 2016
Contributed by Lukas
For more than three centuries after the Mongol conquest of 1240, the rulers of the Golden Horde played a major role in Eurasian politics, both directl...
Ashley E. Sweeney, “Eliza Waite” (She Writes Press, 2016)
21 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Cypress Island, September 1896: a tragedy has left a young widow, mourning her child, living alone in a cabin on this isolated spot near Bellingham Ba...
Hana Samek Norton, “The Serpent’s Crown” (Cuidono Press, 2015)
01 Jul 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In the aftermath of the Fourth Crusade, the grip of European knights on the Holy Land has begun to loosen. The Muslim forces under Saladin have won a ...
Lauren Belfer, “And After the Fire” (Harper, 2016)
15 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
It’s May 1945, and a pair of American GIs in occupied Germany find themselves at what appears to be an abandoned estate. When they enter, they disco...
Kristen Harnisch, “The California Wife” (She Writes Press, 2016)
19 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Sara Thibault and her new husband, Philippe Lemieux, grew up in Vouvray, amid the French vineyards that dot the Loire Valley. But when the phylloxera ...
Diane McKinney-Whetstone, “Lazaretto” (Harper, 2016)
27 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
A hundred years before Ellis Island became a processing center for immigrants wishing to enter the United States, Philadelphia had the Lazaretto, a qu...
Laini Giles, “The Forgotten Flapper: A Novel of Olive Thomas” (Sepia Stories, 2015)
08 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
A ghost haunts the New Amsterdam Theatre, near Times Square in New York. She wears a green outfit in flapper style, and she’s just a little annoyed ...
Weina Dai Randel, “The Moon in the Palace” (Sourcebooks, 2016)
21 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In four thousand years of Chinese history, Empress Wu stands alone as the only woman to rule in her own name. She died in her eighties after decades o...
Mary Doria Russell, “Epitaph: A Novel of the O.K. Corral” (Ecco Books, 2015)
02 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
The Wild West of Zane Grey and John Wayne movies, with its clear divisions between good guys and bad guys, cowboys and Indians (never called Native Am...
Anjali Mitter Duva, “Faint Promise of Rain” (She Writes Press, 2014)
16 Feb 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In 1530, Babur the Tiger, the self-proclaimed ruler of Afghanistan, moved south and conquered the northwest section of what was then known as Hindusta...
Joan Schweighardt, “The Last Wife of Attila the Hun” (Booktrope Editions, 2015)
01 Feb 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Long before Genghis Khan set off to conquer the known world, the pattern of steppe warriors attacking–and often defeating–settled empires was well...
Courtney J. Hall, “Some Rise by Sin” (Five Directions Press, 2015)
04 Dec 2015
Contributed by Lukas
The reverberations of Henry VIII’s tumultuous reign continued to echo long after the monarch’s death. England teetered into Protestantism, then ve...
Liza Perrat, “Blood Rose Angel” (Triskele Books, 2015)
20 Nov 2015
Contributed by Lukas
The year 1348 is not a good time to be a healer in Europe. Midwife Heloise lives in a cottage outside Lucie-sur-Vionne, where she walks an awkward lin...
Jeannine Atkins, “Little Woman in Blue: A Novel of May Alcott” (She Writes Press, 2015)
08 Nov 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Even people who have never read Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women and its two sequels (Little Men and Jo’s Boys) probably have at least a vague mem...
Virginia Pye, “Dreams of the Red Phoenix” (Unbridled Books, 2015)
13 Oct 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Of the brutal conflicts that characterized the twentieth century, none equaled in scale the catastrophe that struck China when the Japanese occupied t...
Sarah Kennedy, “The King’s Sisters” (Knox Robinson Publishing, 2015)
21 Sep 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Many historical novels explore the highways and byways of Tudor England, especially the marital troubles of Henry VIII, which makes it all the more pl...
Lucy Sanna, “The Cherry Harvest” (William Morrow, 2015)
18 Aug 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Many novels look at World War II–what happened, why it happened, how the world would have changed if the war had never occurred or had taken a diffe...
Glen Craney, “The Spider and the Stone: A Novel of the Black Douglas” (Brigid’s Fire Press, 2014)
20 Jul 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Scotland, 1296: William Wallace is leading the resistance against the English while the clans fight one another as fiercely as they attack the invader...
Lisa Chaplin, “The Tide Watchers” (William Morrow, 2015)
14 Jun 2015
Contributed by Lukas
From World War I, we jump back more than a hundred years and across an ocean. Napoleon, still First Consul, has convinced the surrounding nations to a...
Alan Geik, “Glenfiddich Inn” (Sonador Publishing, 2015)
18 May 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Boston in 1915 is a town on the move. Prohibition creates opportunities for corruption and evasion of the law. Stock scandals and political machinatio...
Erika Johansen, “Queen of the Tearling” (HarperCollins, 2014)
24 Apr 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Once in a while, we here at New Books in Historical Fiction like to branch out. This month’s interview is one example. Erika Johansen‘s bestsellin...
Sally Cabot Gunning, “Satucket Trilogy” (William Morrow, 2011)
09 Apr 2015
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast I talk with author Sally Cabot Gunning about law in the Satucket Trilogy: The Widow’s War, Bound, and The Rebellion of Jane Clarke (...