With this selection of historical novels, you can journey to various times and places: the royal courts of Henry VIII in England and Augustus the Strong in Central Europe, 17th-century Denmark, ...

Grace Kelly, Vivien Leigh, Judy Garland, Ingrid Bergman…Hollywood’s Golden Age brought about some of the most beautiful and iconic movie stars of all time. This time period, which started around the ...

Recent pop culture would lead many to believe that historical fiction is mainly the province of the bodice ripper. The popularity of Netflix’s Bridgerton alongside other period drama faves Downton ...

Kate Mosse doesn’t just write historical fiction – she immerses you in it. From the labyrinthine streets of medieval France to the heat of 16th-century Southern Africa, her novels are known for their ...

The beautiful gowns, the high-society balls, the memorable characters, the pitch-perfect banter, the steamy romantic storylines…we could go on and on listing all the reasons we adore Netflix's ...

The Seattle Public Library loves to promote books and reading. This column, submitted by the library, is a space to share reading and book trends from a librarian’s perspective. You can find these ...

Tayari Jones, Ann Patchett, George Saunders and Veronica Roth return with new novels; Jennette McCurdy makes her fiction ...

Let’s be real: 2025 is probably going to be the year where we need a whole lot of escapism. For some readers that means immersing themselves in the rich imaginative worlds of fantasy, for others, the ...

While researching family ancestry and genealogy, Eliott Secrest learned about one of his ancestors, Francis Locke, and his involvement in the Revolutionary War, and that information “spurred my ...

In contemporary publishing, novels fixated on the past rather than the present have garnered the most attention and prestige. The 68th National Book Awards at Cipriani Wall Street, 2017. On Friday, ...

THE LADY FOR RANSOM (274 pp.)] — Alfred Duggan — Coward-McCann ($3.50). As a writer of historical novels, Englishman Alfred Duggan (The Little Emperors) is out of step with most of the others in his ...