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 ...

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 ...

Small Things Like These is an intimate look into the lives of young women instituted in Magdalene laundries in Ireland.

Historical fiction continues to captivate readers in 2025, offering windows into the past while exploring timeless human ...

There is some hubris in daring to define the key features of a century’s worth of novels, but Edwin Frank admits his book isn ...

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

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 ...

Spread the love “Whispers from the Berlin Wall” by Greta Schmidt A touching story of families divided by the Cold War. “Gold ...