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For Queen and Country: The Espionage Fiction of C.P. Giuliani
WRITTEN BY DOUGLAS KEMP Clara Giuliani, or C.P., is very much the Renaissance woman, which is perhaps appropriate as she is Italian, ...Read Article
Overlooked Story: Linda McQuaig’s The Road to Goderich
WRITTEN BY CLAIRE MORRIS Goderich, Ontario, which sits on a bluff overlooking Lake Huron. Something about the place charmed me, and I’ve ...Read Article
Girl from Greenwich Street: Lauren Willig on the Manhattan Well Murder of 1799 and the Trial of Levi Weeks
WRITTEN BY ILYSA MAGNUS Admired creator of the Pink Carnation series, collaborative historicals and stand-alones – and NYC litigator turned career novelist – Willig has ...Read Article
Late Bloomer: Karen Cushman’s Historical Fiction for Children and Young Adults
WRITTEN BY TRACY BARRETT Known for her portrayals of spunky girls (and one boy) from the past who forge their own paths in ...Read Article
Greece & Rome: Mythology, Legends, and Novels
BY PETER TAYLOR-GOOBY Why are we so fascinated by the ancient world? Over eight million people climb up to the Parthenon in Athens ...Read Article
Hope and the Happy Land: Two New Post-Civil War Historical Novels
WRITTEN BY JANICE OTTERSBERG Two novels have recently been published which highlight an important event in history that has been lost and forgotten ...Read Article
History & Film | The Devil You Might Know: Sinners
WRITTEN BY MICHELLE MCGILL-VARGAS I love horror movies, especially the classic Hammer or Universal horror films featuring the likes of Christopher Lee and ...Read Article
Forthcoming Historical Novels for 2026
The Historical Novel Society lists a comprehensive range of titles from mainstream and small press publishers for novels set from ancient times to ...Read Article
Launch: Lucy Pick’s The Queen’s Companion
INTERVIEW BY KATHERINE MEZZACAPPA Lucy Pick is a historian of the thought and culture of medieval Spain who has published on Christian, Muslim, ...Read Article
Forthcoming Children’s and YA Historical Novels for 2026
The Historical Novel Society lists mainstream and small press titles for readers aged 4 – 18, with settings from ancient times to the mid 1970s. Details ...Read Article
