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18.11.2024

Reading the Past: The opening round is up for the 2024 Goodreads Choice Award for Historical Fiction

Voting for the opening round in the 2024 Goodreads Choice Awards is open for the next week, through November 24th. On the ballot for histori...

Reading the Past

13.11.2024

Reading the Past: Rachel Blackmore's Costanza reveals the real woman behind a groundbreaking 17th-century sculpture

She has gazed out at viewers for nearly four centuries: eyes wide, lips parted, hair unkempt, expression determined and sensual. The marble ...

Reading the Past

03.11.2024

Reading the Past: Eleanore of Avignon depicts a young woman's courageous path in medieval France

The Provençal city of Avignon in 1347-48 is rife with tension and drama, with the Catholic popes in residence, Queen Joanna of Naples seekin...

Reading the Past

24.10.2024

Reading the Past: For their next books, three prominent historical novelists are sticking with their genre roots

Several well-known historical novelists have announced their next books in recent weeks, and I found it especially interesting to see they'r...

Reading the Past

18.10.2024

Reading the Past: Julia Park Tracey's Silence examines women's agency in Puritan-era Massachusetts

Steeped in the language and mores of an earlier time, Julia Park Tracey’s meditative and defiantly life-affirming novel Silence follows a y...

Reading the Past

17.10.2024

Reading the Past: Kimberly Brock's The Fabled Earth unfolds a multilayered mystery surrounding Georgia's Cumberland Island

In her third novel, Brock ( The Lost Book of Eleanor Dare , 2022) proves marvelously adept at intertwining mythic stories with contemporary...

Reading the Past

05.10.2024

Reading the Past: Victoria Thompson's Murder in Rose Hill delves into Gilded Age medical cures and family dynamics

Anyone conducting research in Gilded Age news archives will note the proliferation of ads for patent medicines: concoctions promoted as cure...

Reading the Past

28.09.2024

Reading the Past: Historical novels are acclaimed via a number of recent literary awards

Over the past few weeks, many literary prize announcements have come to my attention via industry news sources or social media. And histori...

Reading the Past

24.09.2024

Reading the Past: The View from Behind the Camera: My Family and Old Hollywood, an essay by Ginny Kubitz Moyer

Longtime readers of this blog will know I'm drawn to historical novels inspired by family history, and along these lines, Ginny Kubitz Moyer...

Reading the Past

20.09.2024

Reading the Past: Marianne K. Miller's cinematic novel evokes a young Hemingway's pivotal time in Toronto

In her leanly written debut, Miller dramatizes the pivotal months Ernest Hemingway spent in Canada as a reporter for the Toronto Star , imag...

Reading the Past

15.09.2024

Reading the Past: A cornucopia of historical fiction reads for fall 2024, all set before the 19th century

For those seeking to spend the next few months immersed in earlier corners of the past, here are fourteen new and upcoming reads, from publi...

Reading the Past

06.09.2024

Reading the Past: Galina Vromen's Hill of Secrets shows the human story within Los Alamos, New Mexico, during WWII

What happens when varied people, all with their own personal troubles, converge in an unfamiliar location for a hidden purpose, especially w...

Reading the Past

02.09.2024

Reading the Past: Daphne du Maurier's The Glass-Blowers showcases new facets of the French Revolution

Daphne du Maurier’s The Glass-Blowers is one of her lesser-known historical novels. Having greatly enjoyed Rebecca , Mary Anne , The House ...

Reading the Past

27.08.2024

Reading the Past: Circumnavigating Svalbard: My Love Affair with the Arctic, an essay by Cynthia Reeves

Thanks to Cynthia Reeves, author of The Last Whaler (Regal House, Sept. 3), for contributing the following essay about her research. I hope...

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25.08.2024

Reading the Past: All the World Beside explores queer history in 1700s Massachusetts

Conley’s debut novel brings us to a small Massachusetts town—the symbolically-named Cana—while dramatizing an affair between two married Pur...

Reading the Past

19.08.2024

Reading the Past: Short takes on three female-centered historical novels I haven't reviewed here before

I managed to get in some good reading this summer! Here are short takes on three novels I definitely recommend. Kate Grenville’s Restless D...

Reading the Past

12.08.2024

Reading the Past: A royal visit to 1922 Bangalore brings danger in Harini Nagendra's A Nest of Vipers

Offering an even twistier and broader-scope plot than the first two books in Nagendra’s series, A Nest of Vipers is dominated by the Prince...

Reading the Past

05.08.2024

Reading the Past: Scandinavian gothic has a feminine focus in Anna Noyes' The Blue Maiden

For the residents of Sweden’s Berggrund Island in 1825, the Blue Maiden is a fearful place. An uninhabited neighboring isle, its appearance ...

Reading the Past

27.07.2024

Reading the Past: A visual preview of the winter 2025 season in historical fiction

For this post, I'm looking way ahead to see what's on the horizon for historical fiction this coming winter. These dozen books have publica...

Reading the Past

23.07.2024

Reading the Past: Michelle Moran's Maria looks for the real story behind The Sound of Music's complicated heroine

Michelle Moran’s gripping new novel Maria (whose subject, Maria von Trapp, will be recognizable from the beautiful cover) left me pondering...

Reading the Past

15.07.2024

Reading the Past: Libbie Hawker's Mercer Girls brings three determined women to frontier Seattle

Libbie Hawker’s Mercer Girls takes its name from a group of enterprising young women from around Lowell, Massachusetts, who were recruited ...

Reading the Past

11.07.2024

Reading the Past: Tropical glamour and gothic suspense in Chanel Cleeton's The House on Biscayne Bay

Cleeton’s dual-period mystery intermixes tropical heat and gothic chills in a satisfying way as two women, decades apart, face up to shockin...

Reading the Past

04.07.2024

Reading the Past: New reader survey emphasizing historical fiction: invitation to participate

Please excuse the recent delay with new posts, as I've been out of town. M.K. (Mary) Tod, a friend from the historical fiction community wh...

Reading the Past

24.06.2024

Reading the Past: The first volume of Conn Iggulden's Nero trilogy dramatizes the survival instinct and bold ambition of his mother, Agrippina

After an excursion to ancient Greece, most recently in Empire (2023), Iggulden circles back to Rome, the setting for his original Emperor s...

Reading the Past

16.06.2024

Reading the Past: All We Were Promised portrays three Black women's friendship and hopes for freedom in 1830s Philadelphia

Lattimore’s debut exudes originality in its characters, plot situations, and especially in its well-chosen setting of 1830s Philadelphia, “t...

Reading the Past

12.06.2024

Reading the Past: These 24 novels showcase the popularity, diversity, and vibrancy of today's Gothic historical fiction

Gothic historical fiction has exploded in popularity, a trend I couldn’t be happier about. I’ve been reading gothic novels since grade schoo...

Reading the Past

06.06.2024

Reading the Past: Secrets abound in 1920s London in Marty Wingate's newest cozy mystery

Kudos to Marty Wingate for writing an engaging cozy mystery whose solution is a clever and unpredictable puzzle. A Body at the Dance Hall i...

Reading the Past

31.05.2024

Reading the Past: The Passionate Tudor by Alison Weir depicts the complicated, ultimately tragic life of Queen Mary I

Mary I, England’s first true queen regnant, isn’t generally recognized for her admirable steadfastness, like her mother Catherine of Aragon,...

Reading the Past

26.05.2024

Reading the Past: Historical fiction trendspotting: Sail the world with these recent and upcoming pirate novels

Ahoy there! Has anyone else noticed the number of historical fiction about pirates appearing lately? There are enough of them to warrant som...

Reading the Past

19.05.2024

Reading the Past: Restoration-era intrigue and sisterhood in Nicola Cornick's multi-period The Other Gwyn Girl

Raise your hand if you realized royal mistress Nell Gwyn had an older sister. If not, you’re not alone. Nicola Cornick has a knack for takin...

Reading the Past

13.05.2024

Reading the Past: The Great Divide by Cristina Henríquez unites a diverse cast of people during the Panama Canal's construction

The Great Divide is the epic novel of the Panama Canal’s construction you didn’t know you’d been missing. This major engineering feat of th...

Reading the Past

10.05.2024

Reading the Past: Bits and pieces of historical fiction news: awards, reviews, and more

A short roundup of recent news about historical novels and their authors. Jayne Anne Phillips' Night Watch , set in rural West Virginia duri...

Reading the Past

04.05.2024

Reading the Past: Kelly E. Hill's A Home for Friendless Women is based on original research into Victorian-era Louisville

Kelly E. Hill’s debut reads like a living, breathing scrapbook about the women from the titular Home, a religious organization from late 19t...

Reading the Past

30.04.2024

Reading the Past: Judith Lindbergh's Akmaral evokes the uncommon life of a woman warrior from ancient times

Imagine a time, far distant from living memory, when nomadic clans roamed the vast grasslands of central Asia. They derive strength from the...

Reading the Past

24.04.2024

Reading the Past: Megan Campisi's The Widow Spy imagines a female battle of wills in Civil War-era Washington, DC

Beginning on August 23, 1861, a consequential Civil War battle is being fought inside a well-appointed home in Washington, DC. On one side a...

Reading the Past

17.04.2024

Reading the Past: An edgy, unsettling take on vanished women in Erin Kate Ryan's Quantum Girl Theory

“A missing girl rewrites an entire story the moment she disappears.” A novel that’s been sitting in my NetGalley queue for too long, Erin K...

Reading the Past

13.04.2024

Reading the Past: The Titanic Survivors Book Club offers a character-rich meditation on love, loss, and second chances

After you’ve narrowly avoided death in a notoriously tragic shipwreck, how do you approach your remaining days? For the memorable personalit...

Reading the Past

09.04.2024

Reading the Past: A gallery of fifteen intriguing historical novels out in spring 2024

It's been too long since I've done a showcase featuring books for the current season, which will be a terrific one for historical fiction. H...

Reading the Past

02.04.2024

Reading the Past: After the Massacre, a guest post by Lora Chilton, author of 1666: A Novel

Thanks to author Lora Chilton for the guest post on writing a novel about her ancestral heritage, which focuses on an important yet little-k...

Reading the Past

30.03.2024

Reading the Past: What the Mountains Remember whisks readers to the scenic Blue Ridge Mountains with a tale of romance and self-discovery

During a week-long stay amid the mountainous beauty of Asheville, North Carolina, a young woman caught between two worlds must confront her ...

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Reading the Past - History

Reading the Past: The opening round is up for the 2024 Goodreads Choice Award for Historical Fiction

Reading the Past: Rachel Blackmore's Costanza reveals the real woman behind a groundbreaking 17th-century sculpture

Reading the Past: Eleanore of Avignon depicts a young woman's courageous path in medieval France

Reading the Past: For their next books, three prominent historical novelists are sticking with their genre roots

Reading the Past: Julia Park Tracey's Silence examines women's agency in Puritan-era Massachusetts

Reading the Past: Kimberly Brock's The Fabled Earth unfolds a multilayered mystery surrounding Georgia's Cumberland Island

Reading the Past: Victoria Thompson's Murder in Rose Hill delves into Gilded Age medical cures and family dynamics

Reading the Past: Historical novels are acclaimed via a number of recent literary awards

Reading the Past: The View from Behind the Camera: My Family and Old Hollywood, an essay by Ginny Kubitz Moyer

Reading the Past: Marianne K. Miller's cinematic novel evokes a young Hemingway's pivotal time in Toronto

Reading the Past: A cornucopia of historical fiction reads for fall 2024, all set before the 19th century

Reading the Past: Galina Vromen's Hill of Secrets shows the human story within Los Alamos, New Mexico, during WWII

Reading the Past: Daphne du Maurier's The Glass-Blowers showcases new facets of the French Revolution

Reading the Past: Circumnavigating Svalbard: My Love Affair with the Arctic, an essay by Cynthia Reeves

Reading the Past: All the World Beside explores queer history in 1700s Massachusetts

Reading the Past: Short takes on three female-centered historical novels I haven't reviewed here before

Reading the Past: A royal visit to 1922 Bangalore brings danger in Harini Nagendra's A Nest of Vipers

Reading the Past: Scandinavian gothic has a feminine focus in Anna Noyes' The Blue Maiden

Reading the Past: A visual preview of the winter 2025 season in historical fiction

Reading the Past: Michelle Moran's Maria looks for the real story behind The Sound of Music's complicated heroine

Reading the Past: Libbie Hawker's Mercer Girls brings three determined women to frontier Seattle

Reading the Past: Tropical glamour and gothic suspense in Chanel Cleeton's The House on Biscayne Bay

Reading the Past: New reader survey emphasizing historical fiction: invitation to participate

Reading the Past: The first volume of Conn Iggulden's Nero trilogy dramatizes the survival instinct and bold ambition of his mother, Agrippina

Reading the Past: All We Were Promised portrays three Black women's friendship and hopes for freedom in 1830s Philadelphia

Reading the Past: These 24 novels showcase the popularity, diversity, and vibrancy of today's Gothic historical fiction

Reading the Past: Secrets abound in 1920s London in Marty Wingate's newest cozy mystery

Reading the Past: The Passionate Tudor by Alison Weir depicts the complicated, ultimately tragic life of Queen Mary I

Reading the Past: Historical fiction trendspotting: Sail the world with these recent and upcoming pirate novels

Reading the Past: Restoration-era intrigue and sisterhood in Nicola Cornick's multi-period The Other Gwyn Girl

Reading the Past: The Great Divide by Cristina Henríquez unites a diverse cast of people during the Panama Canal's construction

Reading the Past: Bits and pieces of historical fiction news: awards, reviews, and more

Reading the Past: Kelly E. Hill's A Home for Friendless Women is based on original research into Victorian-era Louisville

Reading the Past: Judith Lindbergh's Akmaral evokes the uncommon life of a woman warrior from ancient times

Reading the Past: Megan Campisi's The Widow Spy imagines a female battle of wills in Civil War-era Washington, DC

Reading the Past: An edgy, unsettling take on vanished women in Erin Kate Ryan's Quantum Girl Theory

Reading the Past: The Titanic Survivors Book Club offers a character-rich meditation on love, loss, and second chances

Reading the Past: A gallery of fifteen intriguing historical novels out in spring 2024

Reading the Past: After the Massacre, a guest post by Lora Chilton, author of 1666: A Novel

Reading the Past: What the Mountains Remember whisks readers to the scenic Blue Ridge Mountains with a tale of romance and self-discovery

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