Historical Fiction

Fiction

“The Stationery Shop:” The Story of Young Love Lost Amid the 1953 Iranian Coup

In The Stationery Shop (Gallery Books), author Marjan Kamali tells a love story gone wrong among political unrest in Iran 1950s. We begin in 2013 in Massachusetts when an older woman, Roya, is visiting an old man in a nursing home. Then we go back in time to the 1950s…

Jennifer BlankfeinMarch 13, 2020

Fiction

The Multi-Generational Journey to Make the World “A Better Place”

Before he wrote A Better Place (Mandevilla Press), Steven M. Forman made a name for himself with the Boca trilogy, a series of mystery novels set in Forman’s own Boca Raton. This novel, an epic 400-plus-page saga spanning most of the twentieth century and revolving around the story of one…

BookTribDecember 4, 2019

Fiction

“The Mountains Sing:” A Beautiful Family Saga Written From the Heart

I have recently read wonderful books by Vietnamese authors, Ocean Vuong's On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous and Thannha Lai's Butterfly Yellow along with Chris Bohjalian’s new book The Red Lotus, which partially takes place in Vietnam. Each of these books pieces together for readers how beautiful the country is and how…

Jennifer BlankfeinMarch 25, 2020

Fiction

“The Mirror & the Light:” Long-Awaited Stunning Conclusion to Hilary Mantel’s Thomas Cromwell Trilogy

It has been more than a decade since the inaugural novel of Hilary Mantel’s two-time Man Booker Prize winning Thomas Cromwell Trilogy, Wolf Hall, first captivated readers. Fans of Mantel have spent eight years eagerly awaiting the trilogy’s conclusory novel, The Mirror & the Light (Henry Holt and Company), and…

Chelsea CicconeMarch 10, 2020

Fiction

“The Lines Between Us” Explores the Ties That Bind Us to Generations Past

https://booktrib.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/The-Lines-Between-Us.jpg "An ambitious, engaging novel that explores the power of finding personal connection to the past." — Kirkus Reviews "... an incredibly well-researched novel with much to offer in its enthralling plotline ..." — Readers' Favorite The Lines Between Us by Rebecca D’Harlingue (She Writes Press) is a riveting and heartfelt historical debut…

BookTrib Guest AuthorSeptember 7, 2020

Fiction

“The War Widow” Is a Feminist Twist on Noir in 1940s Sydney

“Completely gripping and entertaining from beginning to end." — Hugh Jackman —∞— The War Widow is poised to be Tara Moss’s breakout novel in the U.S., especially given the book’s saucy leading lady, Billie Walker, a war reporter turned Private Investigator in post-WWII Australia who — much like Moss herself…

BookTribDecember 29, 2020

Fiction

Tall Poppy Review: Koslow Enthralls with Historical Fiction

If you were an English major in college, as I was, you spent hours swooning over F. Scott Fitzgerald--his brilliant stories, his glamorous existence, his hobnobbing with Hollywood moguls, and, of course, his passionate and doomed relationship with the exotic Zelda. You think you know the story, we all do. But…

Hank Phillippi RyanOctober 11, 2018

Fiction

Tall Poppy Review: “Girls on the Line” Puts WWI in a New Light

Girls On The Line (Lake Union) is Aimie K. Runyan's latest heartfelt and enlightening historical novel. I don't know about you, but there's a gap in my knowledge when it comes to World War I, and even more so when it comes to the role women played in World War…

Amy NathanNovember 8, 2018

Fiction

Tall Poppy Review: A Heroine Ventures “Into the Free”

It's hard to place Into the Free (Thomas Nelson) into one genre. The novel plays with conventions common to historical fiction and coming-of-age parables, but Julie Cantrell delivers a wholly unique story in her novel. From high in the branches of her favorite sweet gum tree, Millie Reynolds watches a long…

Erin CelelloFebruary 14, 2019

Fiction

Tall Poppies Review: “Promised to the Crown” Is Embroidered with Love

Lovers of historical fiction will be swept away by Amie Runyan’s Promised to the Crown. I was! This book follows three young women as they leave their homes to travel across an ocean towards a future each has chosen but none can quite imagine. Rose, Elizabeth and Nicole come from…

Nomi EveMay 31, 2018

Fiction

Bones to Break and Pride to Restore in “Mad Blood Stirring”

Mad Blood Stirring--an evocative title if there ever was one, and fitting to the forgotten piece of racial history that the phrase represents. In the ruinous wake of the War of 1812, prisoners from battle are still being held in the infamous Dartmoor prison (Pegasus Books). While fighting in the…

Rebecca ProulxJanuary 23, 2019

Fiction

Tall Poppy Review: Romance and Destiny in Monaco

Imagine joining Grace Kelly’s private dinner parties with a jet set of aristocrats, artisans, and Hollywood elite, all taking place along the glamourous Côte d’Azur. Add Prince Rainier, the wedding of the century, and the magic of Monaco, and it’d be no surprise to see Hazel Gaynor and Heather Webb…

Julie CantrellJuly 18, 2019

Fiction

Novel Highlights Real Danger of Hitler’s Food Tasters

Sharing a meal is typically viewed as a binding activity, creating closer relationships with all present. However, you may want to toss your assumptions of intimate connections over food straight in the garbage after reading Rosella Postorino’s latest novel! Based on truth, At the Wolf’s Table (Flatiron Books) is a historical…

Jennifer BlankfeinMarch 1, 2019

Fiction

A Missing Husband, a Civil War and Witchcraft in Philippa Gregory’s Latest

One of England’s leading producers of historical fiction, Philippa Gregory has long turned her attention to the women of the 16th and 17th centuries—a time when female voices were scarcely heard and their stories rarely told. Women who stood out from the ordinary, arousing jealousy or suspicion, were at risk…

Nikki ErlickAugust 24, 2019

Fiction

“Passage West:” A Story of 20th Century Immigration That Feels Eerily Current

I love a richly layered historical novel that tells the stories of ordinary people living in extraordinary times, and Rishi Reddi’s Passage West (Ecco) does not disappoint. AN EXTRAORDINARY TALE OF THE ORDINARY Unlike many who “thought they did not have stories to tell,” Ram Singh, the book’s main character,…

Joanne ShulmanApril 21, 2020

Fiction

“Our Darkest Night:” Terror and Faith in Wartime Italy

Novelist Jennifer Robson does not spare readers a bit of horror in her new book, Our Darkest Night: A Novel of Italy and the Second World War (William Morrow). As she has demonstrated in Somewhere in France, Goodnight From London and The Gown, Robson has a predilection for placing indomitable…

Claudia KeenanJanuary 5, 2021

“The Stationery Shop:” The Story of Young Love Lost Amid the 1953 Iranian Coup

The Multi-Generational Journey to Make the World “A Better Place”

“The Mountains Sing:” A Beautiful Family Saga Written From the Heart

“The Mirror & the Light:” Long-Awaited Stunning Conclusion to Hilary Mantel’s Thomas Cromwell Trilogy

“The Lines Between Us” Explores the Ties That Bind Us to Generations Past

“The War Widow” Is a Feminist Twist on Noir in 1940s Sydney

Tall Poppy Review: Koslow Enthralls with Historical Fiction

Tall Poppy Review: “Girls on the Line” Puts WWI in a New Light

Tall Poppy Review: A Heroine Ventures “Into the Free”

Tall Poppies Review: “Promised to the Crown” Is Embroidered with Love

Bones to Break and Pride to Restore in “Mad Blood Stirring”

Tall Poppy Review: Romance and Destiny in Monaco

Novel Highlights Real Danger of Hitler’s Food Tasters

A Missing Husband, a Civil War and Witchcraft in Philippa Gregory’s Latest

“Passage West:” A Story of 20th Century Immigration That Feels Eerily Current

“Our Darkest Night:” Terror and Faith in Wartime Italy

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