HNR Issue 76 (May 2016)

This issue contains:

• Cover Story, The Changing Notion of the “Historical Novelist”: An Interview with Tracy Chevalier  |  by Claire Morris
• Historical Fiction Market News, a column with the latest book deals and publications in historical fiction  |  by Sarah Johnson
• New Voices, a column focusing on debut novelists Joy Callaway, David Dyer, Martha Hall Kelly & Stephanie Storey  |  by Myfanwy Cook
• Red Pencil, The Moon in the Palace  |  by Cindy Vallar
• Interview with Dinitia Smith (Lucinda Byatt)
• Features on ancient world fiction (Judith Starkston), Fall of Poppies (Susan McDuffie), the historical fiction of Shakespeare (Charlotte Wightwick), reclaiming the novel from the cutting room floor (Kate Braithwaite) & Bletchley Park as setting (Myfanwy Cook)
• Reviews of more than 300 of the latest and greatest books in historical fiction and nonfiction, including Editors’ Choice titles