The Chair of Judges for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction has announced the arrival of two new judges to its 2025 ...

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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 ...

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 present moment. When it’s done well, a period piece shouldn’t feel ...

Here is the standout fiction and nonfiction of the ... The best-selling fantasist Bardugo infuses this new standalone novel with both rich historical detail and a heady sense of place and romance.

For someone who loves the movies so much that he once watched seven in one day, Jeff Hockenheimer spends a lot of time ...

It’s a historical battle that’s more fiction than historical. When it comes to the craftsmanship of the new historical fiction epic Gladiator II, sometimes you’ve got to call ‘em like you ...

KOCHI: There was a girl once who wanted to seek and explore. For her, life was not something to be lived but a joyous journey ...