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Re-Imagining New York: Gregory Maguire’s Novel, A Wild Winter Swan
WRITTEN BY KRISTEN MCDERMOTT Gregory Maguire is best known for his “Return to Oz” series, beginning with the massive 1995 bestseller Wicked, which inspired ...Read Article
Ancient Ways Enlighten Modern Lives in Daughter of Black Lake by Cathy Marie Buchanan
Daughter of Black Lake by Cathy Marie Buchanan is a beautiful, immersive look into the lives of a British Celtic village on the ...Read Article
Food is Always Significant: Miss Graham’s Cold War Cookbook by Celia Rees
Years ago, when Celia Rees found a copy of The Radiation Cookery Book amongst her mother’s effects she knew it would impact ...Read Article
The Woman Before Wallis by Bryn Turnbull: King Edward VIII’s Devotion to Thelma Furness
In her novel The Woman before Wallis (Mira, 2020), Bryn Turnbull has written about the life of Thelma Furness (née Morgan), twin sister ...Read Article
A Collection of Myths and Folklore: The Library of Legends by Janie Chang
With her two earlier novels, Dragon Springs Road and Three Souls, Janie Chang established a reputation for successfully combining historical fiction with magical ...Read Article
Finding Inspiration in Norfolk: The Secrets of Saffron Hall by Clare Marchant
Clare Marchant says that she came late to writing. It was only after a career in IT, raising a family and moving to ...Read Article
Anbara Salam: an Emerging Voice on the Historical Fiction Horizon
Anbara Salam, author of two historical novels, Things Bright and Beautiful (Penguin, 2018) and Belladonna (Berkley, 2020), was born to a Scottish mother and a ...Read Article
The Large Consequences of Small Events: The Day Lincoln Lost by Charles Rosenberg
Charles Rosenberg explains that one of his reasons for writing alternative histories is that “I’ve always been fascinated by the way in ...Read Article
Infectious Diseases in History and the 1918 Pandemic
Recent world events may have led historical novelists to consider depicting epidemic disease in their novels. I found some websites that provide good ...Read Article
New books by Historical Novel Society members, August 2020
The HNS congratulates all of our author members on their new releases! If you’ve written a historical novel or nonfiction work published (...Read Article