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Historical Fiction
Interviews with writers of historical fiction about their new books.
March 22, 2026
Rules of the Heart
In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with Janice Hadlow about her fascinating novel, Rules of the Heart (Henry Holt & Company, 2026). A be…
March 19, 2026
Chivalry in the Shadows
Medieval Brittany, with all its contradictions and complexities, comes alive in Meg Wahlberg’s Chivalry in the Shadows (Parkwood Manor Press, 2024). T…
March 18, 2026
Letters to Kafka
In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with Christine Estima about her novel, Letters to Kafka (House of Anansi, 2025). A sweeping, tragic …
February 22, 2026
The Thread Collectors
The Thread Collectors (Harper Collins, 2022) by Shaunna J Edwards and Alyson Richman takes readers to 1863, where, in a small Creole cottage in New Or…
February 20, 2026
Anneke Jans in the New World
With the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States of America fast approaching, a small flood of novels set in the early days of coloniza…
January 31, 2026
This Here Is Love
Three people—two enslaved, one indentured—living beside each other, struggling against their circumstances, trying to bend destiny. As the seventee…
January 25, 2026
The Mozhaisk Road
In The Mozhaisk Road (Austin Macauley, 2025) the time is 1978 and Moscow is still the capital of a Communist country. The political police continues t…
January 20, 2026
The Sea Child
Cornwall, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, was best known for its smuggling. The combination of an insular and impoverished countryside, a …
December 18, 2025
162 Carlo Rotella's Books in Dark Times (JP)
For our Pandemic-era Books in Dark Times series, RTB spoke in 2020 with Carlo Rotella of Boston College. Rotella is the author of such gems as Good W…
December 12, 2025
The Queen Who Came in from the Cold
Amateur detectives come in many forms. Owning a bookstore or a bakery, running a charming country inn, working in a library—even owning a cat or a dog…
November 29, 2025
The Sirens of September
A sweeping historical coming-of-age novel set against India’s 1948 takeover of Hyderabad, The Sirens of September (India Penguin, 2025) shifts between…
November 12, 2025
The Bailiff’s Wife
Despite the long-held perception that medieval and early modern women were as quiet, pious, and obedient as society expected them to be, the truth is …
October 29, 2025
The Trial of Donald H. Rumsfeld
Donald Rumsfeld was a major player in American history. In this riveting alternative history, he's put on trial for his role in the United States 2003…
October 4, 2025
Murder in Miniature
When we meet Maple Bishop in the first book in her series, Death in the Details, she is reeling from a series of life-changing circumstances. Rural Ve…
September 11, 2025
The Queen's Companion
Eleanor of Aquitaine is best known as the wife of England’s Henry II, the mother of his numerous children—including two kings, Richard the Lionheart a…
September 5, 2025
Tilt
Kavya is an Indian-American professor and single mother struggling with debilitating panic attacks. Bombarded by flashbacks of cruelty and violence t…
September 1, 2025
Moscow Underground
Moscow Underground (HarperCollins, 2025) by Dr. Catherine Merridale is a sweeping novel of life, death and politics in the quicksand world of Stalin's…
August 13, 2025
The Entirely True Story of the Fantastical Mesmerist Nora Grey
This fascinating novel—dual-time historical with a fantastical overlay, based in part on the life of the author’s great-grandfather, a nineteenth-cent…
July 17, 2025
The Fire Concerto
This compelling debut novel explores the interconnected lives of three acclaimed female concert pianists: Clara Bishop; her teacher, Zofia Mikorska; a…
July 6, 2025
How to Dodge a Cannonball
How to Dodge a Cannonball is a razor-sharp satire that dives into the heart of the Civil War, hilariously questioning the essence of the fight, not ju…