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Historical Fiction
Interviews with writers of historical fiction about their new books.
July 18, 2024
Orientalism in Representations of Muslims
In this episode of Radio ReOrient we return to the literary theme of this season, to explore the work of Laury Silvers. Laury is the author of many …
July 8, 2024
Daughters of Shandong
Daughters of Shandong (Berkley Books, 2024), the author’s first and based on the life of her grandmother, follows the fortunes of a mother and three d…
July 5, 2024
Nettleblack
1893. Henry Nettleblack has to act fast or she’ll be married off by her elder sister. But leaving the safety of her wealthy life isn’t as simple as sh…
June 18, 2024
A Shore Thing
Joanna Lowell is known for her witty historical romances set in late Victorian England, a period both undergoing and resisting dramatic social change.…
June 11, 2024
The Maiden of Florence
Giulia is an orphan who has been cloistered since she was a baby. In 1584, the powerful Medici family demands a test of virility from the Grand Duke o…
May 28, 2024
Your Presence Is Mandatory
In 2007 Ukraine, following the death of her husband, Yefim Shulman, Nina finds a letter he wrote to the KGB confessing the secret he’d kept for over 5…
May 25, 2024
A Fool for an Heir
Few destinies are more challenging than life in the orbit of a man obsessed with expanding his power at all costs. Such is the fate endured by Ivan Iv…
April 26, 2024
Your Presence Is Mandatory
Ukraine, 2007. Yefim Shulman, husband, grandfather and war veteran, was beloved by his family and his coworkers. But in the days after his death, his …
April 24, 2024
"Akmaral" (Regal House, 2024)
Inspired by the legends of Amazon women warriors told by ancient Greek historian Herodotus and evidenced by recent archaeological discoveries in Centr…
April 19, 2024
The Paris Novel
Stella St. Vincent, a thirty-something copy editor in 1980s New York, has survived a relationship with her mother, Celia, so complicated that even the…
April 12, 2024
Aftershock
In the summer of 1976, an earthquake swallows up the city of Tangshan, China. Among the hundreds of thousands of people scrambling for survival is a m…
March 19, 2024
A Wild and Heavenly Place
When Samuel Fiddes and Hailey MacIntyre meet by chance in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1878, their worlds appear to be far distant from each other. Samuel li…
February 26, 2024
Wages of Sin
What if HIV started spreading in the early 1500s rather than the late 1900s? Without modern medicine, anybody who catches HIV is going to die. In Wage…
February 25, 2024
The Phoenix Crown
Kate Quinn and Janie Chang are independently acclaimed authors of historical fiction, both of whom have previously appeared on this podcast channel. H…
February 6, 2024
The Ways of Water
Josie Belle Gore is only six years old when we meet her in 1908, yet her father has tied a rope around her waist and is lowering her into a dark well …
January 30, 2024
The General and Julia
Barely able to walk and rendered mute by the cancer metastasizing in his throat, Ulysses S. Grant is scratching out words, hour after hour, day after …
January 23, 2024
The Diamond of London
I’ve interviewed Andrea Penrose before about her mysteries set in the Regency period—most notably, her ongoing series starring the Earl of Wrexford an…
December 12, 2023
Above the Salt
Today I talked to Katherine Vaz about her new novel Above the Salt (Flatiron Books, 2023). In 1843-1846, on the Portuguese island of Madeira, five-ye…
December 11, 2023
Shoot the Moon
Annie Fisk—an only child in Los Alamos, New Mexico—spends a lot of time investigating the treasure trove of objects at the back of her garden. Her fat…
December 5, 2023
The Shining Mountains
Angus McDonald had to escape from Scotland or risk arrest. In 1838, he contracted with the Hudson Bay Company to trade in the Pacific Northwest. There…