Biographical Historical Fiction

Novel About Florence Nightingale Perfect for Women’s History Month

“A writer at the height of her powers.” That’s how Oprah.com described Melissa Pritchard, whose latest work, Flight of the Wild Swan, is a majestic novel about Florence Nightingale, whose courage, self-confidence and resilience transformed nursing and the role of women in medicine. Sweeping yet intimate, Flight of the Wild…

BookTribMarch 12, 2024

Fiction

Novelized Life of Under-Recognized Woman Who Translated Einstein and Thomas Mann

Mrs. Lowe-Porter (Jackleg Press) is a captivating biographical novel by award-winning author Jo Salas that blurs the lines between rather bare bones known historical facts and a fictional story adding great emotional depth with richly imagined innermost thoughts and feelings of its subject. This book effectively projects American author and translator…

Linda HitchcockFebruary 26, 2024

Fiction Miscellany

“The First Ladies” Authors Discuss the Inspiring and Symbiotic Friendship That Made History

Much like the dynamic and accomplished women in The First Ladies, Mary McLeod Bethune and Eleanor Roosevelt, Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray have forged an incredible friendship and partnership. Following the great success of The Personal Librarian, they have released their second collaboration, The First Ladies. Please find the video recording of the…

Jennifer BlankfeinOctober 4, 2023

Fiction Recommended

Haunting and Powerful Story Explores Man’s Tumultuous Relationship with the Land

“The sins of the father are to be laid upon the children.” —William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice In the desolate landscapes of the Oklahoma Panhandle, Alex Woodard’s Ordinary Soil (Greenleaf Book Group Press) is a powerful and haunting story that delves into themes of generational trauma, family, love, global…

Dawn IusNovember 14, 2023

Nonfiction Recommended

Grandmother’s Mementos Reveal Details of Her Coming-of-Age in Berlin’s Belle Époque

A grandmother’s album of photographs and postcards reveals the Belle Époque in Berlin — a time of unrivaled promise, peace, and prosperity — through the eyes of a young Prussian Jewish woman, as told by her grandson Stephan R. Frenkel in Clara’s Secret (LAEV). In 2016, Frenkel discovered an album…

Peggy KurkowskiSeptember 7, 2023

The Seamstress of Sardinia Bianca Pitzorno

Fiction

Touching Historical Novel Follows Seamstress in Quaint Italian Town

The Seamstress of Sardinia (Harper Perennial) is a lovely dream of a book, soothing, pleasant and welcome in a complicated world often filled with obligations and stress. It is not an inconsequential novel. It chronicles the emancipation and independence of a modest peasant girl into a resilient, self-educated young woman…

Linda HitchcockDecember 22, 2022

Fiction Fiction - Featured

Kate Quinn’s “The Diamond Eye” Celebrates a WWII Heroine Who’s No Construct of Fiction

"Quinn manages to give her readers something that’s both engaging because it’s well written and exciting because it’s grounded in truth." —∞— Amid WWII, can Lady Death, a quiet bookworm turned lethal sniper, hit her mark? Based on an incredible true story, Kate Quinn’s latest novel, The Diamond Eye (William…

Lydia LefevreApril 18, 2022

Fiction Fiction - Featured

Love Shines Through the Horrors of War in “A Small Hotel”

Suanne Laqueur’s ambitious historical fiction novel, A Small Hotel, begins with a “Once upon a time” innocence, a sweet simplicity that belies the labyrinthine journey she’s about to take her readers on. It’s a romance; a travelogue; an introduction to Swedish mythology, language and good luck charms. The story begins…

Sherri DaleyMarch 25, 2022

Fiction Fiction - Featured

In This Booker Prize Finalist, a Somali Immigrant Endures the Biased Justice System of 1950s Cardiff

Author Nadifa Mohamed explores the topic of wrongful incarceration and a corrupt justice system in her new release, The Fortune Men (Knopf). The immersive detail and timeliness of this narrative are among the reasons that the book was selected as a finalist for this year’s prestigious Booker Prize. The Fortune…

Michael FerryDecember 23, 2021

Fiction

An Irish Immigrant Saves the Work of a Brilliant Poet in “Emily’s House”

Emily's House (Berkley) is Amy Belding Brown's long-awaited novel about one of America's greatest poets, Emily Dickinson, and her confidante, the Irish maid responsible for saving Dickinson's work from certain destruction, albeit against the poet's expressed wishes. Through the voice of Margaret Maher, the headstrong 27-year-old Irish immigrant who served…

Susan BaileyAugust 3, 2021

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“Sins of the Fathers” Is a “What If?” Historical Thriller Blending Fact and Fiction Seamlessly

“An explosive ending as gut-wrenching as it is shocking. If this were a boxing match, it's the punch you didn't see coming.” — Stephen H. Foreman, Novelist and Screenwriter Even in modern times, high treason isn’t something to be taken lightly, but what if it could have saved millions of…

Monique SnymanFebruary 22, 2022

Fiction

“The Lost Diary of Anne Frank” Imagines the Final Days of an Extraordinary Young Girl

Anne Frank’s The Diary of a Young Girl, first published in 1947, is a universal classic and perhaps the most powerful, important and tragic account of the Nazi occupation of Holland in the early 1940s. It has sold 30 million copies in 67 languages. Some 1.3 million people visit…

Jim AlkonApril 14, 2021

Fiction Fiction - Featured

Jackie Kennedy Onassis’ Year in Post-War Paris

This current novel is an expansion of her New York Times article: A Year in Paris that Transformed Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis published in June, 2019. Vast numbers of biographies, newspaper and magazine articles have been published about the former First Lady and her storied life. Although Jacqueline in Paris is…

Linda HitchcockSeptember 29, 2022

Author Spotlight Fiction Fiction - Featured

Jane Green Pens a Stunning Love Letter to Talitha Getty, Marrakech and the ’60s

Jane Green's Sister Stardust (Hanover Square Press) transports you to another time where life is carefree, exhilarating and dangerous. 1960s England was a unique time in history … moral was high, the World Cup was won, fresh new music from The Beatles and The Rolling Stones emerged, and London was…

Jennifer BlankfeinApril 7, 2022

Biographical Historical Fiction

“The First Ladies” Authors Discuss the Inspiring and Symbiotic Friendship That Made History

Haunting and Powerful Story Explores Man’s Tumultuous Relationship with the Land

Grandmother’s Mementos Reveal Details of Her Coming-of-Age in Berlin’s Belle Époque

Kate Quinn’s “The Diamond Eye” Celebrates a WWII Heroine Who’s No Construct of Fiction

Love Shines Through the Horrors of War in “A Small Hotel”

In This Booker Prize Finalist, a Somali Immigrant Endures the Biased Justice System of 1950s Cardiff

An Irish Immigrant Saves the Work of a Brilliant Poet in “Emily’s House”

“Sins of the Fathers” Is a “What If?” Historical Thriller Blending Fact and Fiction Seamlessly

“The Lost Diary of Anne Frank” Imagines the Final Days of an Extraordinary Young Girl

Jackie Kennedy Onassis’ Year in Post-War Paris

Jane Green Pens a Stunning Love Letter to Talitha Getty, Marrakech and the ’60s

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