Historical Fiction Archives

4-STAR REVIEW: MOMENTUM: MONTESORI, A LIFE IN MOTION by E.G. Slade

Historical Fiction Sandy Saucier - 24 October 2023

Publication Date: August 31, 2023 "Simply brilliant—no, complexly brilliant. I have never read a more absorbing, unflinching, intense embodiment of biographical fiction." — Sena Jeter Naslund, author of Abundance, a Novel of Marie Antoinette...

SPOTLIGHT: ANNA’S PROMISE by D.G. Schulman Plus Giveaway!

Historical Fiction Dayna Linton - 23 October 2023

Publication Date: May 1, 2023 In the spring of 1975, Ben Friedman will celebrate his rite of passage into adulthood. When his beloved grandfather suddenly dies and leaves him a mysterious inheritance, Ben...

4-STAR REVIEW: ANNA’S PROMISE by D.G. Schulman

Historical Fiction Amy Wilson - 23 October 2023

Publication Date: May 1, 2023 In the spring of 1975, Ben Friedman will celebrate his rite of passage into adulthood. When his beloved grandfather suddenly dies and leaves him a mysterious inheritance, Ben...

5-STAR REVIEW: RECLAIMING MNI SOTA by Colin Mustful

Historical Fiction Amy Wilson - 10 October 2023

Publication Date: October 10, 2023 Two cultures met in Minnesota-one striving to maintain its homeland and traditions, another trying to create a life of freedom, prosperity, and abundance. Samuel Copeland was just a teenager...

3.5-STAR REVIEW: THE YELLOW BATON by David Sebra

Historical Fiction Amy Wilson - 9 October 2023

Publication Date: November 3, 2022 Tragedy disrupts the idyllic life for the Kohanow family in 1939. Living on their small dairy farm in Poland the Jewish family immediately becomes embroiled in the tragic...

4-STAR REVIEW: THE SCANDALOUS CONFESSIONS OF LYDIA BENNET, WITCH by Melinda Taub

Historical Fiction Lindy Bell - 2 October 2023

Publication Date: October 3, 2023 A "wildly inventive and utterly addictive" (Julia Quinn) witchy reimagining of Pride and Prejudice, told from the perspective of the troublesome and—according to her—much-maligned youngest Bennet sister, Lydia. In this exuberant...

COVER REVEAL: EVERY TIME WE SAY GOODBYE by Natalie Jenner

Historical Fiction Dayna Linton - 18 September 2023

Publication Date: May 14, 2024 The bestselling author of The Jane Austen Society and Bloomsbury Girls returns with a brilliant novel of love and art, of grief and memory, of confronting the past and...

5-STAR REVIEW: THE ROYAL WINDSOR SECRET by Christine Wells

Historical Fiction Amy Wilson - 12 September 2023

Publication Date: September 12, 2023 Could she be the secret daughter of the Prince of Wales? In this dazzling novel by the author of Sisters of the Resistance, a young woman seeks to...

5-STAR REVIEW: CHENNEVILLE by Paulette Jiles

Historical Fiction Lindy Bell - 12 September 2023

Publication Date: September 12, 2023 Consumed with grief, driven by vengeance, a man undertakes an unrelenting odyssey across the lawless post–Civil War frontier seeking redemption in this fearless novel from the award-winning and New...

5-STAR REVIEW: A BEAUTIFUL RIVAL by Gill Paul

Historical Fiction Amy Wilson - 5 September 2023

Publication Date: September 5, 2023 In this stunning new novel, bestselling author Gil Paul reveals the unknown history of cosmetic titans Elizabeth Arden and Helena Rubinstein and their infamous rivalry that spanned not...

4.5-STAR REVIEW: MOCCASIN TRACE by Hawk MacKinney

Historical Fiction Amy Wilson - 1 September 2023

Publication Date: July 4, 2023 It is July of 1859, a month of sweltering dog days and feverish emotional bombast. Life is good for widower Rundell Ingram and his hazel-eyed, roan-haired son,...

SPOTLIGHT: MOCCASIN TRACE by Hawk MacKinney Plus Giveaway!

Historical Fiction Dayna Linton - 1 September 2023

Publication Date: July 4, 2023 It is July of 1859, a month of sweltering dog days and feverish emotional bombast. Life is good for widower Rundell Ingram and his hazel-eyed, roan-haired son,...