Category: Historical Fiction

5 STAR REVIEW: HIS CASTILIAN HAWK by Anna Belfrage

Historical Fiction JoAnne Weiss - 18 November 2020 4

The Castilian Saga Book 1 Release Date: September 28, 2020 For bastard-born Robert FitzStephan, being given Eleanor d’Outremer in marriage is an honour. For Eleanor, this forced wedding is anything but a fairy tale....

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5 STAR REVIEW: WHERE BUTTERFLIES GO by Debra Doxer

Holiday Fiction Dayna Linton - 12 November 2020 2

Release Date: October 7, 2020 Meira Sokolow had the misfortune of being born to Jewish parents in Warsaw, Poland, in 1912. Before she took her first breath, her fate had been sealed. Residing in...

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INTERVIEW: Victoria Sportelli On Her Book LADY MARGARET’S ESCAPE

Historical Fiction Dayna Linton - 9 November 2020 2

Today at Novels Alive, we welcome live-long Anglophile and author of Lady Margaret’s Escape, Victoria Sportelli, to our site. On your biography on your website, you mention that you “fell in love with...

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BOOK BLAST: Censorettes by Elizabeth Bales Frank

Historical Fiction Dayna Linton - 5 November 2020 0

For a young woman of exceptional intelligence and courage, being sequestered from the dangers of WW2 on the idyllic island of Bermuda is maddening. She is determined to get into the fight—then...

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GUEST BLOG: William A. Glass on AS GOOD AS CAN BE

Historical Fiction Dayna Linton - 30 October 2020 15

Readers of my novel, As Good As Can Be, usually conclude that it’s autobiographical. Some have asked me why I didn’t write a memoir. The answer is that I tried writing one,...

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INTERVIEW: Carrie Hayes on Women’s Equality and NAKED TRUTH

Social Issues Dayna Linton - 28 October 2020 2

Today on Novels Alive, we are really pumped to have Carrie Hayes, author of the much-acclaimed, Naked Truth: Or Equality, The Forbidden Fruit, on our site to answer questions about feminism, the...

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GUEST BLOG: Doing Her Duty – The Travails of a Medieval Queen by Anna Belfrage

Historical Fiction Dayna Linton - 28 October 2020 2

In 1254, the fifteen-year-old Prince Edward married the not yet thirteen-year-old Doña Leonor (Eleanor) of Castile. The little bride came with a good pedigree. Not only did she have Fernando III of...

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NEW RELEASE: THE FORGOTTEN DAUGHTER by Joanna Goodman

Historical Fiction Dayna Linton - 27 October 2020 0

Release Date: October 27, 2020 For fans of Jojo Moyes, from the bestselling author of The Home for Unwanted Girls, comes another compulsively readable story of love and friendship, following the lives of two women...

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4.5 STAR REVIEW: NAKED TRUTH: OR EQUALITY, THE FORBIDDEN FRUIT by Carrie Hayes

Historical Fiction Dayna Linton - 27 October 2020 3

From Washington Heights to Washington D.C. comes a true American Herstory. Filled with intrigue, lust, and betrayal, this is the fight for sexual equality. 1868, on the eve of the Gilded Age: Spiritualist...

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NEW RELEASE: PLAIN BAD HEROINES by Emily M. Danforth

Historical Fiction Dayna Linton - 20 October 2020 0

Release Date: October 20, 2020 “Full of Victorian sapphic romance, metafictional horror, biting misandrist humor, Hollywood intrigue, and multiple timeliness—all replete with evocative illustrations that are icing on a deviously delicious cake.” –O, THE...

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