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📗📖📘 A warm welcome to our feed to historical fiction readers, writers and publishers across the world.
Member benefits: 4 Historical Novels Review magazines a year, event discounts and access to member-only Facebook groups: historicalnovelsociety.org/m…
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'An affecting family saga set against The Depression in America with an authenticity that pulls readers in.'
Editor's Choice: Where We Belong by Kim Vogel Sawyer, reviewer G. J. Berger
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'Verica, a British ruler who encouraged the Roman emperor Claudius to launch an invasion, may not have been the man historians thought he was'. Via @newscientist :
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Capturing emotion through Victorian death portraiture in All Her Beautiful Deaths: historicalnovelsociety.org/p…
Congratulations to our members on their new historical releases! Learn more about privateers, WWII in Algeria and Moscow in the 1980s: historicalnovelsociety.org/n… #HistoricalFiction
'A fascinating take on the magnificent Queen Elizabeth I with vivid characterization and sparkling dialogue. Compelling and intimate.'
Editors' Choice: What Love E’er Meant by Janet Wertman, review by Keira Morgan
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How Lisa Rochon transports readers to the Alsatian countryside before World War I, Picasso’s art studio, Paris under the Occupation: historicalnovelsociety.org/7…
Investigating paranormal intrigue among Russian emigres in Paris in the mid-1920s: historicalnovelsociety.org/p…
Virginia college student looking for shark teeth finds rare Native American spearpoint. via @LiveScience.
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'1878, India. An Irish soldier confronts the British Raj. Deeply moving, multi-layered and nuanced.'
Editor's Choice: White Elephant by Jeyamohan, translated by Priyamvada Ramkumar, reviewer Susan McDuffie
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Looking for free images? Digitized newspapers? Why not browse through this intriguing list of primary sources from history: historicalnovelsociety.org/w…
Historical Professions: Midwives – sources of research for your historical novel: historicalnovelsociety.org/h…
An artist, food critic and now writer explores the difficulties encountered by unconventional women in her Gothic novel:
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A fictionalised telling of a true unsung heroine. Well-written and deeply moving.'
Editor's Choice: The Nun of Ravensbrück by Cathi Fleming, reviewer David Northover
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The Changing Notion of the “Historical Novelist”: An Interview with best-selling #histfic author @Tracy_Chevalier: historicalnovelsociety.org/t…
How dual portals into a faded past were prompted by a visit to Kolkata, India: historicalnovelsociety.org/d…
From Variety: How ‘American Girl’ Author Aged Up Samantha Parkington for Adult Historical Fiction Novel
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'A heartbreaking examination of the marriage of Charles Dickens and Catherine Hogarth. Beautifully written with genuine emotional force.'
Editor's Choice: Mrs Dickens by Emily Howes, reviewer Adele Wills
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Two women, separated by 80 years, whose quests for truth and sanctuary are embedded in a beach cottage on the Georgia coast. As past and present collide, each woman begins to realize how the tides of history are woven through generations.
On behalf of the HNS Interviews team, Leslie S. Lowe interviews Linda Harris Sittig on CHASING THE TIDES
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🐇🐇Hands up who had rabbits down as closet archaeologists on their bingo card?! Via @SmithsonianMag
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What comes first in #HistoricalFiction: the plot, character or location? An interview with Sarah Winman: historicalnovelsociety.org/m…
