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A Regency Romp: To Have and to Hoax by Martha Waters
Martha Waters has always been interested in 19th and 20th century Britain and, as she explains, “I gravitate towards that setting and time ...Read Article
A Tudor Banquet of a Novel: Sin Eater by Megan Campisi
When the cover of Megan Campisi’s novel Sin Eater (Atria, April 2020) first flashed across my consciousness, the title convinced me: I simply ...Read Article
An Heiress to Remember by Maya Rodale: A Ravishing Romance Features Gilded Age Woman Finding Herself
In the third and final novel of the Gilded Age Girls’ Club series (Avon, March 2020), Maya Rodale chronicles the adventures of Beatrice Goodwin, ...Read Article
Love Never Dies: The Forgotten Letters of Esther Durrant by Kayte Nunn
Kayte Nunn’s The Forgotten Letters of Esther Durrant (Orion, August 2019; William Morrow, March 2020) has a dual timeline and three distinct threads that ...Read Article
“Forgiveness doesn’t magically right every wrong. Loss is still loss.” This Terrible Beauty by Katrin Schumann
Whereas interest in the literature of World War II is at a peak, fiction set in its aftermath in the former German Democratic ...Read Article
Historical Professions: Midwives – Sources of Research for your Historical Novel
The World Health Organization has named 2020 as the “Year of the Nurse and Midwife.” Here are selected websites that offer free resources on ...Read Article
Life in the Caves: The Vineyards of Champagne by Juliet Blackwell
Recently, I went to see Sam Mendes’s fine film, 1917. Before that I read The Alice Network by Kate Quinn, a novel set ...Read Article
The Rhythm of Life: The Decent Inn of Death by Rennie Airth
The latest in Rennie Airth’s Detective John Madden series is The Decent Inn of Death (John Madden #6) (Penguin, January 2020). With many ingredients ...Read Article
New books by HNS members, February 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
A Woman of Her Time: Research and Character in Nancy Turner’s Light Changes Everything
WRITTEN BY DONIS CASEY Nancy E. Turner’s Light Changes Everything (St Martin’s Press, 2020) is a return to the world Turner so ...Read Article