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Exploring Food as the “Great Connector” in The Chef’s Secret by Crystal King
In Crystal King’s new novel, The Chef’s Secret (Touchstone, 2019), one of history’s most enduring yet relatively unknown chefs, Bartolomeo Scappi, ...Read Article
The Glovemaker’s Daughter by Leah Fleming Sheds Light on 17th-Century Quakers
Leah Fleming’s novel The Glovemaker’s Daughter plays with the dual-time and time-slip narrative devices. It opens with a ghostly apparition of ...Read Article
The Eulogist by Terry Gamble: A Family Affair
Terry Gamble’s curiosity about her immigrant ancestors was the spark behind her latest historical novel, The Eulogist (William Morrow, 2019). Her family’s ...Read Article
New books by HNS members, February 2019
If you’ve written a historical novel or nonfiction work published (or to be published) in November 2018 or after, please send them in ...Read Article
New Voices: Loretta Goldberg, Kerri Maher, Wayne Ng and Signe Pike
Wayne Ng’s novel Finding the Way: A Novel of Lao Tzu (Earnshaw Books, 2018) draws readers into the world of two philosophers, Lao ...Read Article
Australian Historical Fiction: Indigenous Origins, Colonialism, and Diaspora
In 1968, Robert Hughes, Australian expatriate critic and author of The Fatal Shore (Vintage, 1988), wrote a review in The Times of Thomas Keneally’s ...Read Article
Great Expectations Meets Grantchester? Clarissa Harwood’s Bear No Malice
Claire Morris talks to author Clarissa Harwood about choosing the 20th century After she completed the first draft of her novel Impossible Saints (...Read Article
A Search for Peace: Ann Weisgarber’s The Glovemaker
The poorly-defined middle ground Our world is neither black nor white, which might be why we tell stories about the areas of gray. ...Read Article
Ask the Agent: Richard Lee Talks to Kate Nash
I think I can justifiably call Kate Nash a ‘society friendly’ agent. I met her first at a Romantic Novelists’ Association event, and ...Read Article
Unfreezing History: Sara Sheridan’s The Ice Maiden
Sara Sheridan on her fascination with writing historical fiction Sara Sheridan’s latest novel The Ice Maiden (Severn House, 2018) is set in the ...Read Article