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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

New historical fiction novel The Last Princess from Sunbird Stories Publishing (£20, focuses on 1066 country.

His other historical fiction novels include a sequel to WAGES OF EMPIRE, CROSSROADS OF EMPIRE, which was a First-Place winner of the 2024 CIBA Hemingway Prize for 20th Century Wartime Historical ...

“My own formulation, the twentieth-century novel,” he writes, “is perhaps best taken as a useful fiction for considering ... as paradigm-changing and historical even in their day, and ...