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Where the Sea Calls Home: The Sea Child by Linda Wilgus
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19th CenturyInterviewNapoleonic
BY WILLIAMAYE JONES Along Cornwall’s coastline, reality and myth exist side by side, where hard, salt-weathered survival blurs with ancient seaborn stories. Set during the Napoleonic Wars, Linda Wilgus’s debut novel, The Sea Child (Ballantine Books, 2026), unfolds against this... Read More
Researching the Regency period?
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BY B.J. SEDLOCK Regency novels are popular enough that if you search for “regency” in the HNS website, you’ll retrieve 800-plus hits. There are likely fans of the period who want to try writing a Regency themselves and could use... Read More
A hero for our time too: Sharpe’s Storm by Bernard Cornwell
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19th CenturyAdventureInterviewMilitaryNapoleonic
BY TOM WILLIAMS Fans of Bernard Cornwell’s Richard Sharpe, and there are many, are very familiar with the Peninsular War. Sharpe started fighting in the Peninsula with the French invasion of Galicia in 1809 and he distinguished himself in battles... Read More
Uruk: A novel of the first city by James Zwerneman
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BY LAWRENCE W. POWERS When and how did the idea of managing plants as crops and domesticating animals replace hunting and gathering food? The change probably occurred numerous times in diverse locations as human populations independently realized the advantages of... Read More
Travel Through Time to Happiness: The White Octopus Hotel by Alexandra Bell
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20th CenturyInterviewRomanceTimeslipWorld War 1
BY LEE ANN ECKHARDT SMITH Of all her books, no other novel means as much to author Alexandra Bell as The White Octopus Hotel (Del Ray, 2025). Her reasons for this provide insight into several of the benefits that writing... Read More
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