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Lucia Runs through Finnegans Wake Like an Artery: The Joyce Girl by Annabel Abbs
Since the publication of Phyllis Rose’s beloved Parallel Lives in 1984, which revealed in startling clarity what it meant to be the wife ...Read Article
Three Women and a Storm: The Last Train to Key West by Chanel Cleeton
In her new historical novel The Last Train to Key West (Berkley, June 2020), Chanel Cleeton describes the days before the Great Labor Day ...Read Article
“Tiny miracles”: Sara Ackerman’s Red Sky Over Hawaii
Stories about World War II remain popular with readers of historical fiction, with a wealth of settings and situations that claim attention. The ...Read Article
Overcoming Prejudice and Claiming Identity: The Last Blue by Isla Morley
Whilst working on her novel Above (Two Roads, 2014), Isla Morley came across by chance an online article on the Fugate family of Troublesome ...Read Article
When Silence Says More than Words: Glorious Boy by Aimee Liu
Aimee Liu describes her novel, Glorious Boy (Red Hen Press, May 2020), as being a “story of [an] unusual family, yanked apart by [the ...Read Article
Making Wine and Beer? Resources for Historical Novelists
Wine and beer were important beverages for our ancestors, and odds are you may have to know something about how they were made ...Read Article
New books by HNS members, May 2020
Congrats to the following authors on their new releases! If you’ve written a historical novel or nonfiction work published (or to be ...Read Article
Ask the Agent: Isobel Dixon and Graeme Macrae Burnet
WRITTEN BY RICHARD LEE Isobel Dixon is MD and Head of Books at Blake Friedmann Literary Agency in London and President of the (...Read Article
Not Just for Kids: The Graphic Novel and Historical Fiction
WRITTEN BY HUGO FREY It was back in the later 1980s that the literary world first got excited about the graphic novel. All ...Read Article
Mercies of the Past: Power and Punishment on the Norwegian Island of Vardø
WRITTEN BY KATHERINE STANSFIELD Kiran Millwood Hargrave is an award-winning poet, playwright, and novelist. The Mercies is her first novel for adults. Her ...Read Article