Historical Fiction

War Through the Eyes of Female Pilots

Inspired by the team of women pilots who trained soldiers in the second World War, Noelle Salazar's The Flight Girls (MIRA) innovatively weaves the struggles of misogyny, trauma and platonic relationships with the paradoxical truth of war’s powerful capacity to both fracture relationships and bring individuals together. Seldom are readers…

Emily WolfeJune 26, 2019

Book Club Network Fiction

Famine and Forging Ahead in “The Irishman’s Daughter”

We’ve all heard about “the luck of the Irish.” But what about their suffering? Even in Ireland, history lessons barely discuss the Irish potato famine of the mid-19th century. Textbooks include the blight but don't detail the suffering and anguish caused by the scourged potato crops. Omitted is the trauma…

K.L. RomoMarch 4, 2019

Book Club Network Fiction

Self-Discovery and Espionage in “The Lost Girls of Paris”

A fresh, new and exciting tale of espionage, The Lost Girls of Paris (Park Row Books) by Pam Jenoff is engaging historical fiction that follows three women all at different stages in their lives but brought together in crazy twists of fate. For Grace, World War II is over (it's 1946)…

Meagan FoyJanuary 16, 2019

Book Club Network Fiction

“The Masterpiece:” NYC’s Grand Central as One of the Stars

Today Fiona Davis' own narrative work of art, The Masterpiece (Dutton) comes out in paperback. To celebrate, we revisit the intricate story and informative interview with the author. Today’s radiant Grand Central Terminal belies the nadir of its seventh decade when decay, crime, and overreaching developers threatened its existence. Thanks…

Claudia KeenanJuly 8, 2019

Book Club Network

“The Henna Artist” Paints the Challenges Women Faced in Post-Colonial India

"This vivid story is rich and complex!" —Reese Witherspoon Set in post-colonial India, The Henna Artist (MIRA), Alka Joshi’s debut novel, exposes a society hobbled by a rigid caste system, misogyny, superstition and age-old traditions. The smell of sandalwood, cooking fires, and tropical flowers wafts through it all, but…

Sherri DaleyMay 20, 2020

Book Club Network

This Month’s Book: Luxury Liner, Lies, and Lifeboat 21

For the month of November, all chapters of the Girly Book Club are reading On a Cold Dark Sea by Elizabeth Blackwell. Here’s our review: April 15, 1912. Lifeboat 21 saves a mere 12 lives instead of the 65 it was built to hold. This is not just another tale…

K.L. RomoNovember 13, 2018

Fiction

The Wartime Sisters in Need of a Peace Talk

It’s Brooklyn in the early thirties, and Mr. and Mrs. Kaplan have brought forth two daughters who could not possibly be more opposite from each other. Ruth is studious, brittle and envious of her younger sister, Millie, whose beauty and charm captivate everyone around her. Even as a child, Millie…

Claudia KeenanJanuary 7, 2019

Fiction

“The Woman of Thousand Names” Fights to Keep the Eternal Soul of Russia Alive

One forgotten woman is transformed into a stunning portrait of the twentieth century — powerful, passionate and inspired. Based on copious research, author Alexandra LaPierre illuminates the true story of Mata Hari of Russia, an alluring aristocrat who fought for survival during the Bolshevik Revolution, through the character Moura in…

Jessica McEnteeMarch 30, 2020

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

War Through the Eyes of Female Pilots

Famine and Forging Ahead in “The Irishman’s Daughter”

Self-Discovery and Espionage in “The Lost Girls of Paris”

“The Masterpiece:” NYC’s Grand Central as One of the Stars

“The Henna Artist” Paints the Challenges Women Faced in Post-Colonial India

This Month’s Book: Luxury Liner, Lies, and Lifeboat 21

The Wartime Sisters in Need of a Peace Talk

“The Woman of Thousand Names” Fights to Keep the Eternal Soul of Russia Alive

“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

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