Historical Fiction

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The Author of “Siciliana” Talks Historical Fiction, Cultural Ties and an Unsung Revolution

No, this isn’t an excerpt of the House of the Dragon script or a Brandon Sanderson fantasy. This passage describes the very real event that rocked the island of Sicily nearly seven and a half centuries ago — an event that serves as the inspiration for Carlo Treviso's rousing historical thriller…

BookTribAugust 29, 2022

Fiction Fiction - Featured

A Dark Retelling of Love and Murder in Maggie O’Farrell’s Latest Historical Fiction

Those who have read the complex works of Maggie O’Farrell, especially her previous historical fiction, Hamnet (Tinder Press), or her memoir, I Am, I Am, I Am (Tinder Press), know they are in for a rare treat when O’Farrell announces she is back on the historical fiction scene — this…

Lydia LefevreSeptember 9, 2022

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7 Brilliant and Affecting Historical Fiction Audiobooks

Just in time for the last lazy days of summer listening, I give you four authors and seven — seven! — historical fiction titles that will spirit you away in your own private time machine. This story appears through BookTrib’s partnership with AudioFile. It first appeared on AudioFile’s website.

Aurelia C. ScottSeptember 8, 2022

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Wrap Up The Summer with These 10 August Audiobooks

Every month, AudioFile Magazine reviewers and editors select the best new audiobooks just for BookTrib’s readers. Get ready for the last beach days of the season, back-to-school preparation and cooler days ahead with these August picks! This story appears through BookTrib’s…

AudioFileSeptember 2, 2022

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United We Stand: 6 Stories of Americans in the Age of Protest

To summarize 1960s America with one event or novel would be a tremendous disservice to that era. The decade was shaped by the Vietnam War, political protests, the civil rights movement, second-wave feminism, hippie counterculture and a thriving music scene. But these major events weren’t the only factors in shaping…

Megan BeauregardAugust 29, 2022

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Feel-Good Reads to Bring Comfort This Fall

Whew! Let’s say goodbye to the hottest summer on record and pull out those comfy blankets and PJs. Now that the leaves are changing (somewhere!), it’s time to curl up with a cup of cocoa and some cozy Fall reads. As the kids go back to school and the sun…

Julie CantrellAugust 25, 2022

Fiction Recommended

It’s About the Journey… “Westbound” Uncovers Ancestors’ Pioneering and Civil War History

A genealogy project documenting the life of his great-grandparent’s westward experiences during the 19th century holds unexpected surprises for retired newspaper editor Elliott Madison in K. Patrick Conner’s charming novel, Westbound (Nacl Press). History Revealed Through Letters and Journal Entries Living in San Francisco’s upscale Russian Hill district, Elliott uses…

Peggy KurkowskiDecember 2, 2022

Fiction Fiction - Featured

Coming-of-Age Near the 1940s Chicago Baseball Scene

Ernie’s Bleachers was clearly a passion project for author Tim Pareti, whose family owned the Ernie’s Bleachers tavern in Chicago’s Wrigleyville neighborhood just across from Wrigley Field. It’s the tavern that became Ray’s Bleachers, home of the 1969 Bleacher Bums, and then Murphy’s Bleachers, which is still going strong eight decades…

Dennis HetzelAugust 17, 2022

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Switching Genres: From History to Mystery

Summer reading is always great, whether it takes place in the sunroom, the backyard or at the beach. I recently had a very mild bout with COVID and took advantage of some rest and relaxation with my nose in a book. If you are interested in reading about old New…

Jennifer BlankfeinAugust 12, 2022

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3 Audiobooks Featuring Journeys, Internal and External

While trying to articulate what I loved so much about one of my favorite audiobooks of the year so far, Greenland by David Santos Donaldson, I realized that part of what makes this book so compelling is that it is full of movement. That got me thinking about other books…

Laura SacktonAugust 3, 2022

Fiction Fiction - Featured

Treasure Hunters Seek WWII Art Looted by Nazis

The Colonel’s Lost Vault explodes with international intrigue and action from the first page as modern-day adventurer Sophie Lions searches for an immense treasure, hidden for decades in a secret Nazi vault. Author TS Wieland delivers the punch of Mission Impossible along with the historic interest and sophistication of The…

Michael FerryJuly 28, 2022

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An Author’s Determination to Discuss the Racial Prejudice in 1960’s Suburban America

Racism and desegregation. Catholicism and Vatican II. The Civil Rights movement. The limited lives of women. My high school’s tracking curricula. Sex and boys. You can’t say Anne Dimock dodges the issues in her debut novel Against the Grain. If anything, she addresses them head-on. “These were honestly issues that…

BookTribNovember 28, 2022

Thrillers

ITW Spotlight: Corruption, Class and Dangerous Obsession in “Dreamland”

Nancy Bilyeau had always wanted to write a historical novel set in New York City — but she’d already started carving out a niche for herself in the Tudor era. Her first novel, The Crown, became a number-one bestseller on Amazon and launched a brilliant trilogy that continued to garner…

Dawn IusJanuary 16, 2020

Romance

Sarah MacLean on Wickedly Weaving Scandal & Privilege

BookTrib is partnering with Bookish to bring you more great content. If you’re looking for an addicting summer read, you can’t go wrong with Sarah MacLean’s Wicked and the Wallflower, the first book in her Bareknuckle Bastards series. The story follows the electric romance between Lady Felicity Faircloth, who is trying to recover from a recent scandal,…

BookishJune 20, 2018

Miscellany Young Adult

ICYMI! Our Top Picks from the 2016 Goodreads Choice Awards

It’s once again time for the annual Goodreads Choice Awards, where thousands of readers choose their favorite books of the year. The competition is stiff this go around, with three stages of voting and tons of awesome reads to choose from. Goodreads has always been about the readers, bringing together…

Rachel CarterMay 22, 2017

Miscellany

“The Lions of Fifth Avenue,” Hilarity in the Afterlife and Unsolved True Crime

BookTrib wants to keep you in the book news loop! Each week our editors take a pulse on what’s happening in the book world and hand pick stories, tidbits and reviews you may have missed. Unsolved: True Crime Stories With a Few Loose Strings — Novel Suspects Book Thefts at…

BookTribJuly 24, 2020

The Author of “Siciliana” Talks Historical Fiction, Cultural Ties and an Unsung Revolution

A Dark Retelling of Love and Murder in Maggie O’Farrell’s Latest Historical Fiction

7 Brilliant and Affecting Historical Fiction Audiobooks

Wrap Up The Summer with These 10 August Audiobooks

United We Stand: 6 Stories of Americans in the Age of Protest

Feel-Good Reads to Bring Comfort This Fall

It’s About the Journey… “Westbound” Uncovers Ancestors’ Pioneering and Civil War History

Coming-of-Age Near the 1940s Chicago Baseball Scene

Switching Genres: From History to Mystery

3 Audiobooks Featuring Journeys, Internal and External

Treasure Hunters Seek WWII Art Looted by Nazis

An Author’s Determination to Discuss the Racial Prejudice in 1960’s Suburban America

ITW Spotlight: Corruption, Class and Dangerous Obsession in “Dreamland”

Sarah MacLean on Wickedly Weaving Scandal & Privilege

ICYMI! Our Top Picks from the 2016 Goodreads Choice Awards

“The Lions of Fifth Avenue,” Hilarity in the Afterlife and Unsolved True Crime

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