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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...

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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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26.03.2024

Reading the Past: Celebrating my 18th blog anniversary with a historical fiction giveaway

It's a brighter than usual Monday this week, because today my blog is old enough to vote! I began actively blogging at Reading the Past on M...

Reading the Past

22.03.2024

Reading the Past: Finding Margaret Fuller by Allison Pataki evokes an unjustly overlooked American intellectual's life

Historical fiction can restore neglected figures to their rightful place in the public consciousness, and Pataki’s ( The Magnificent Lives o...

Reading the Past

18.03.2024

Reading the Past: Stefania Auci's The Triumph of the Lions continues her saga about a prominent Sicilian dynasty

This second in a trilogy (after The Florios of Sicily , 2020) about a real-life Italian industrialist dynasty opens in 1868, as thirty-year-...

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10.03.2024

Reading the Past: Review of The Romanov Brides: A Novel of the Last Tsarina and Her Sisters by Clare McHugh

Decades before the Bolshevik Revolution and the Romanov dynasty’s terrible end, the future Tsarina Alexandra and her older sister, Grand Duc...

Reading the Past

06.03.2024

Reading the Past: Flora Carr's The Tower explores a dark, pivotal year in Mary, Queen of Scots' life

Carr’s taut debut recalls Maggie O’Farrell’s The Marriage Portrait (2022) in its evocation of a highborn Renaissance woman trapped against ...

Reading the Past

01.03.2024

Reading the Past: Anne Perry explores dark secrets in small-town Dorset in her newest Victorian-era novella

Over several standalone outings, Mariah Ellison, the formidable Grandmama of Charlotte Pitt from Perry’s long-running mystery series, has pr...

Reading the Past

23.02.2024

Reading the Past: Looking for a reinterpretation of Lady Macbeth's dramatic life? Here are four new historical novels to tempt you.

It's a trend in historical fiction for authors to dig into the roots of vilified characters and examine whether our long-held preconceptions...

Reading the Past

21.02.2024

Reading the Past: A Wild and Heavenly Place tells a star-crossed love story spanning late 19th-century Scotland and the Pacific Northwest

With her aptly titled novel, Oliveira ( Winter Sisters , 2018) sweeps romantically inclined readers into the spectacular setting of Washingt...

Reading the Past

17.02.2024

Reading the Past: Bits and pieces of historical fiction news

I had meant to post this roundup earlier, but I've been sidelined with a cold since Wednesday and am just starting to feel human again; I di...

Reading the Past

10.02.2024

Reading the Past: ReShonda Tate's The Queen of Sugar Hill reveals the story of Oscar winner Hattie McDaniel

Seeing this biographical novel about Hattie McDaniel, you may initially assume it traces her journey from her humble Wichita origins through...

Reading the Past

06.02.2024

Reading the Past: Interview with M. A. McLaughlin about her atmospheric dual-period novel The Lost Dresses of Italy

In 1947, costume historian Marianne Baxter, a war widow, accepts the invitation of her colleague and college friend Rufina to travel to Vero...

Reading the Past

03.02.2024

Reading the Past: Margot Livesey's The Road from Belhaven reveals an ordinary yet uncommon woman's life in late 19th-century Scotland

Written with a graceful simplicity, The Road from Belhaven will enfold you unexpectedly quickly into the life of its heroine, Lizzie Craig,...

Reading the Past

29.01.2024

Reading the Past: Three recent nonfiction works for historical fiction readers to check out

Multiple works of critical reflection about historical fiction have been published in the last few months, a sign of the genre's vibrancy an...

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23.01.2024

Reading the Past: Historical fiction award winners announced at the 2024 ALA LibLearnX conference

The 2024 Book and Media Award announcements from the American Library Association's LibLearnX conference in Baltimore were broadcast over th...

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21.01.2024

Reading the Past: Edith Holler by Edward Carey, his imaginatively weird tale set in the Edwardian theatre world (plus giveaway)

Artistic vision, wit, and the creatively grotesque intermingle in Carey’s ( The Swallowed Man , 2020) literary historical fantasy. In 1901,...

Reading the Past

16.01.2024

Reading the Past: The Red Bird Sings by Aoife Fitzpatrick transforms a late 19th-century Appalachian story into suspenseful fiction

For her debut novel, Irish writer Aoife Fitzpatrick has ventured far from home, in time and distance, setting The Red Bird Sings in late 19...

Reading the Past

12.01.2024

Reading the Past: Looking at Emilia Hart's Weyward, her witchy, award-winning historical debut

Emilia Hart’s Weyward won the Goodreads Choice Award in both the historical fiction and debut novel categories in 2023, a significant feat....

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09.01.2024

Reading the Past: My Enemy's Enemy, a guest post by Alan Bardos, author of the spy thriller Rising Tide

Historical novelist Alan Bardos is here today with a guest post about some little-known WWII history, related to wartime intelligence... the...

Reading the Past

04.01.2024

Reading the Past: Elizabeth R. Andersen's The Alewives brews up amusing entertainment in a medieval Alsatian city

Frau Gritta, the wife of an easygoing fellow who spends nearly all his wages on drink, is the mother of twelve children – she can hardly kee...

Reading the Past

30.12.2023

Reading the Past: Short takes on nine historical fiction titles I read in 2023 but haven't reviewed here yet

For my last post of 2023, I'm taking a look back at some novels I'd read over the last twelve months but didn't get around to reviewing at t...

Reading the Past

25.12.2023

Reading the Past: Season's Readings: A compilation of favorite historical novel lists from 2023

I feel like I've been neglecting this blog over the last week. It's been a busy semester at the library, and I've also been spending a lot o...

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15.12.2023

Reading the Past: The Other Princess reveals the life story of Queen Victoria's African-born goddaughter

Novels that trace an entire life can show extraordinary depth of character as the protagonists adjust to shifts in circumstance and mature p...

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10.12.2023

Reading the Past: Jessie Burton's feminist Medusa flips the script on an ancient Greek myth

Originally published in 2022 for young adults, Burton’s feminist reboot of Medusa’s story has been reissued for the adult market, where myth...

Reading the Past

02.12.2023

Reading the Past: Resistance and memory: Lauren Grodstein's We Must Not Think of Ourselves

Acts of resistance take many forms. For the Jews confined in the Warsaw Ghetto by the Nazis in November 1940, conditions are miserable: cram...

Reading the Past

26.11.2023

Reading the Past: Experience a courageous woman's life in early Maine with Ariel Lawhon's The Frozen River

Spanning the winter of 1789–90 in Hallowell, Maine, from the freezing of the Kennebec River to its late thaw, Lawhon’s outstanding sixth nov...

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22.11.2023

Reading the Past: Daniel Mason's epic North Woods reveals the interconnectedness of humanity and nature over centuries

From the moment two forbidden lovers – the prospective wife of an abusive minister and a reported troublemaker she ironically met at church ...

Reading the Past

17.11.2023

Reading the Past: The 2023 Goodreads Choice Awards historical fiction nominees are up – but look in other categories, too

The initial round of the 2023 Goodreads Choice Awards is open for voting through Sunday, November 26th. Have you made your selections yet? ...

Reading the Past

13.11.2023

Reading the Past: Jon Clinch's The General and Julia showcases the multifaceted nature of an American icon

The most celebrated general of the Union army, he negotiated the Confederacy’s surrender wearing an ordinary soldier’s garb. Born to an abol...

Reading the Past

07.11.2023

Reading the Past: Telling a Family Story, an essay by Teresa H. Janssen, author of The Ways of Water

Teresa H. Janssen is here today with a post about transforming family history into historical fiction. Her grandmother, Josie Belle Gore, in...

Reading the Past

05.11.2023

Reading the Past: Review of Gail Lukasik's gothic mystery The Darkness Surrounds Us, set in early 20th-century northern Michigan

Overly curious. Inquisitive. Too assertive for her own good. These are unwelcome qualities for a woman in late 1918. But Nellie Lester is on...

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01.11.2023

Reading the Past: Kathleen Kent's The Wolves of Andover offers a suspenseful vision of colonial Massachusetts

Given its subject, “The Wolves of Andover” is the evocatively perfect title for Kathleen Kent’s second novel, which serves as a prequel to h...

Reading the Past

25.10.2023

Reading the Past: An ailing Jane Austen takes one last case in Stephanie Barron's Jane and the Final Mystery

Historical mysteries in which famous people transform into amateur detectives can be minefields for their authors. If the protagonist’s pers...

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Reading the Past - History

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

Reading the Past: Celebrating my 18th blog anniversary with a historical fiction giveaway

Reading the Past: Finding Margaret Fuller by Allison Pataki evokes an unjustly overlooked American intellectual's life

Reading the Past: Stefania Auci's The Triumph of the Lions continues her saga about a prominent Sicilian dynasty

Reading the Past: Review of The Romanov Brides: A Novel of the Last Tsarina and Her Sisters by Clare McHugh

Reading the Past: Flora Carr's The Tower explores a dark, pivotal year in Mary, Queen of Scots' life

Reading the Past: Anne Perry explores dark secrets in small-town Dorset in her newest Victorian-era novella

Reading the Past: Looking for a reinterpretation of Lady Macbeth's dramatic life? Here are four new historical novels to tempt you.

Reading the Past: A Wild and Heavenly Place tells a star-crossed love story spanning late 19th-century Scotland and the Pacific Northwest

Reading the Past: Bits and pieces of historical fiction news

Reading the Past: ReShonda Tate's The Queen of Sugar Hill reveals the story of Oscar winner Hattie McDaniel

Reading the Past: Interview with M. A. McLaughlin about her atmospheric dual-period novel The Lost Dresses of Italy

Reading the Past: Margot Livesey's The Road from Belhaven reveals an ordinary yet uncommon woman's life in late 19th-century Scotland

Reading the Past: Three recent nonfiction works for historical fiction readers to check out

Reading the Past: Historical fiction award winners announced at the 2024 ALA LibLearnX conference

Reading the Past: Edith Holler by Edward Carey, his imaginatively weird tale set in the Edwardian theatre world (plus giveaway)

Reading the Past: The Red Bird Sings by Aoife Fitzpatrick transforms a late 19th-century Appalachian story into suspenseful fiction

Reading the Past: Looking at Emilia Hart's Weyward, her witchy, award-winning historical debut

Reading the Past: My Enemy's Enemy, a guest post by Alan Bardos, author of the spy thriller Rising Tide

Reading the Past: Elizabeth R. Andersen's The Alewives brews up amusing entertainment in a medieval Alsatian city

Reading the Past: Short takes on nine historical fiction titles I read in 2023 but haven't reviewed here yet

Reading the Past: Season's Readings: A compilation of favorite historical novel lists from 2023

Reading the Past: The Other Princess reveals the life story of Queen Victoria's African-born goddaughter

Reading the Past: Jessie Burton's feminist Medusa flips the script on an ancient Greek myth

Reading the Past: Resistance and memory: Lauren Grodstein's We Must Not Think of Ourselves

Reading the Past: Experience a courageous woman's life in early Maine with Ariel Lawhon's The Frozen River

Reading the Past: Daniel Mason's epic North Woods reveals the interconnectedness of humanity and nature over centuries

Reading the Past: The 2023 Goodreads Choice Awards historical fiction nominees are up – but look in other categories, too

Reading the Past: Jon Clinch's The General and Julia showcases the multifaceted nature of an American icon

Reading the Past: Telling a Family Story, an essay by Teresa H. Janssen, author of The Ways of Water

Reading the Past: Review of Gail Lukasik's gothic mystery The Darkness Surrounds Us, set in early 20th-century northern Michigan

Reading the Past: Kathleen Kent's The Wolves of Andover offers a suspenseful vision of colonial Massachusetts

Reading the Past: An ailing Jane Austen takes one last case in Stephanie Barron's Jane and the Final Mystery

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