Ranked #1
Bernard Cornwell, “The Flame Bearer” (Harper, 2016)
Bernard Cornwell, “The Flame Bearer” (Harper, 2016)
Here at New Books in Historical Fiction, we don’t often interview the same author twice. Bernard Cornwell is an exceptio... Read more
9 Dec 2016
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37mins
Ranked #2
Helen Rappaport, “Victoria: The Heart and Mind of a Young Queen” (Harper Design, 2017)
Helen Rappaport, “Victoria: The Heart and Mind of a Young Queen” (Harper Design, 2017)
The term historical fiction covers a wide range from what the mystery writer Josephine Tey once dubbed “history with con... Read more
10 Jan 2017
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57mins
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Ranked #3
Phillip Margolin, “Worthy Brown’s Daughter” (Harper, 2014)
Phillip Margolin, “Worthy Brown’s Daughter” (Harper, 2014)
The year is 1860, months before the outbreak of the U.S. Civil War. Officially, slavery does not exist in Oregon, but th... Read more
18 Nov 2014
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57mins
Ranked #4
B. A. Shapiro, “The Art Forger” (Algonquin Books, 2012)
B. A. Shapiro, “The Art Forger” (Algonquin Books, 2012)
Claire Roth can’t believe her luck when the owner of Boston’s most prestigious art gallery offers her a one-woman show. ... Read more
18 Jun 2013
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54mins
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Michelle Cox, “A Girl Like You: A Henrietta and Inspector Howard Novel (She Writes Press, 2016)
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It’s January 1935. Prohibition has just ended, but the Great Depression has not, and much of Chicago remains under the g... Read more
22 May 2017
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53mins
Ranked #6
Robert Goolrick, “The Dying of the Light” (Harper, 2018)
Robert Goolrick, “The Dying of the Light” (Harper, 2018)
“It begins with a house and it ends in ashes.” So opens Robert Goolrick’s rich, lyrical new novel, The Dying of the Ligh... Read more
18 Jul 2018
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49mins
Ranked #7
C. W. Gortner, "The Romanov Empress: A Novel of Tsarina Maria Feodorovna" (Ballentine Books, 2018)
C. W. Gortner, "The Romanov Empress: A Novel of Tsarina Maria Feodorovna" (Ballentine Books, 2018)
101 years have passed since the murder of the Imperial Family of Russia at Yekaterinburg, but their appeal has not dimin... Read more
16 Jul 2019
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1hr 10mins
Ranked #8
Elsa Hart, "City of Ink" (Minotaur Books, 2018)
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If there is one thing more fun than discovering a new (to oneself) author, it is discovering a new author with a series ... Read more
26 Apr 2019
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37mins
Ranked #9
Bren McClain, “One Good Mama Bone” (Story River Books, 2017)
Bren McClain, “One Good Mama Bone” (Story River Books, 2017)
Once in a while, a novel comes along that is just extraordinary, in the best sense of that word. Bren McClain’s One Good... Read more
17 Feb 2017
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51mins
Ranked #10
Ana Johns, "The Woman in the White Kimono" (Park Row Books, 2019)
Ana Johns, "The Woman in the White Kimono" (Park Row Books, 2019)
Naoko Nakamura is only seventeen when she falls madly in love with an American navy man. It’s 1957, and the US occupatio... Read more
11 Jun 2019
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35mins
Ranked #11
Liza Perrat, “Blood Rose Angel” (Triskele Books, 2015)
Liza Perrat, “Blood Rose Angel” (Triskele Books, 2015)
The year 1348 is not a good time to be a healer in Europe. Midwife Heloise lives in a cottage outside Lucie-sur-Vionne, ... Read more
20 Nov 2015
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48mins
Ranked #12
C.P. Lesley, "Song of the Siren" (Five Directions Press, 2019)
C.P. Lesley, "Song of the Siren" (Five Directions Press, 2019)
Since being sold into slavery as a child and working her way up to becoming concubine and mistress for several different... Read more
25 Mar 2019
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37mins
Ranked #13
Ann Weisgarber, "The Glovemaker" (Skyhorse Publishing, 2019)
Ann Weisgarber, "The Glovemaker" (Skyhorse Publishing, 2019)
When a strange man knocks on Deborah Tyler’s door one January evening in 1888, she faces a difficult decision. She can g... Read more
10 May 2019
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38mins
Ranked #14
Kate Braithwaite, "The Girl Puzzle" (Crooked Cat Books, 2019)
Kate Braithwaite, "The Girl Puzzle" (Crooked Cat Books, 2019)
Nellie Bly is in some respects a household name, yet the passage of time has erased many of her accomplishments from pop... Read more
5 Aug 2019
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37mins
Ranked #15
Lauren Willig, "The Summer Country" (William Morrow, 2019)
Lauren Willig, "The Summer Country" (William Morrow, 2019)
When Emily Dawson inherits a plantation in Barbados from her grandfather, Jonathan Fenty, in 1854, she is not quite sure... Read more
22 Jul 2019
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38mins
Ranked #16
Gabrielle Mathieu, “The Falcon Flies Alone” (Five Directions Press, 2016)
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Peppa Mueller has a lot going for her. The daughter of a deceased Harvard professor who gave her an eclectic upbringing,... Read more
18 Jun 2017
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54mins
Ranked #17
Laury Silvers, “The Lover” (Kindle Direct Publishers, 2019)
Laury Silvers, “The Lover” (Kindle Direct Publishers, 2019)
Zaytuna just wants to be left alone to her ascetic practices and nurse her dark view of the world. But when an impoveris... Read more
5 Aug 2019
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1hr 9mins
Ranked #18
Ronald E. Yates, “The Improbable Journeys of Billy Battles” (Xlibris, 2016)
Ronald E. Yates, “The Improbable Journeys of Billy Battles” (Xlibris, 2016)
Journalism, history, biography, memoirs, and historical fiction overlap to some degree. The first two focus on provable ... Read more
20 Mar 2017
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50mins
Ranked #19
Rosellen Brown, "The Lake on Fire" (Sarabande Books, 2018)
Rosellen Brown, "The Lake on Fire" (Sarabande Books, 2018)
Against the backdrop of a gritty 1890’s Chicago teaming with labor problems, filthy sweatshops, and putrid stockyards, t... Read more
26 Mar 2019
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30mins
Ranked #20
Adrienne Celt, "Invitation to a Bonfire" (Bloomsbury, 2018)
Adrienne Celt, "Invitation to a Bonfire" (Bloomsbury, 2018)
Zoya Andropova—soon to be known in her adopted country as Zoë Andropov—didn’t ask to be rescued from her Soviet orphanag... Read more
5 Jul 2019
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