We know novels have the power to take us to different places and time periods. And with biographical historical fiction books ...

A good historical novel has the power to transport us back to a different time and make it seem as real and immediate as our ...

Finding refuge in historical fiction is a good idea, but these novels remind us there’s always trouble ahead, no matter what ...

Historical novels are a perfect combination of escapism and enrichment. Through these works of fiction, readers can learn ...

The Winnipeg-based writer spoke with CBC Books about why she set her novel in 1869 in Red River, as a family reckons with ...

Scotland’s so-called “Queen of Crime,” Val McDermid, has created an engrossing, page-turning counternarrative about one of Shakespeare’s great villains, Lady Macbeth. McDermid sets the record straight ...

When a book has other well-known authors viscerally reacting to its story ... "You exist in the story as you read it." This ...