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Historical Fiction November 4, 2020

Beyond the Ghetto Gates

Michelle Cameron

Hosted by C. P. Lesley
The intense interest in the horrors of World War II that has characterized the last few years has tended to overshadow other aspects of the long history of Jewish populations …

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Historical Fiction October 13, 2020

Atomic Love

Jennie Fields

Hosted by G. P. Gottlieb
Inspired by Leona Woods, the only woman who worked on the Manhattan Project, Atomic Love (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2020) tells the story of Rosalind Porter, a physicist recruited by …
Historical Fiction October 6, 2020

Midnight Fire

P. K. Adams

Hosted by C. P. Lesley
Most novels about the sixteenth century written in English take place in Italy, France, or England—with the occasional foray into Spain or Portugal. P. K. Adams’ Jagiellonian Mystery series is …
Historical Fiction September 24, 2020

Estelle

Linda Stewart Henley

Hosted by C. P. Lesley
Most people think of Edgar Degas as a French painter of ballerinas. But few have heard that his mother came from New Orleans or that he spent five months in …
Historical Fiction August 26, 2020

The Woman before Wallis

A Novel of Windsors, Vanderbilts, and Royal Scandal

Bryn Turnbull

Hosted by C. P. Lesley
Most modern Americans can identify the names Wallace Simpson and Gloria Vanderbilt. But Simpson was not the first divorced American to win the heart of Great Britain’s future if short-reigned …
Historical Fiction August 12, 2020

Road to Delano

John DeSimone

Hosted by G.P. Gottlieb
In John DeSimone's Road to Delano (Rare Bird Books, 2020), it's 1968, and Cesar Chavez is organizing the United Farm Workers to fight for decent working conditions and basic human …
Historical Fiction August 6, 2020

The Cabinets of Barnaby Mayne

Elsa Hart

Hosted by C. P. Lesley
Lady Cecily Kay has just returned to England when she encounters Sir Barnaby Mayne. It’s 1703, Queen Anne is on the throne, and London’s coffee houses are buzzing with discussions …
Historical Fiction July 30, 2020

The Road to Gesualdo

Erika Rummel

Hosted by C. P. Lesley
The Italian Renaissance introduced—or reintroduced—many valuable concepts to society and culture, giving rise eventually to our modern world. But it was also a time of fierce political infighting, social inequality …
Historical Fiction July 28, 2020

Into the Suffering City

A Novel of Baltimore

Bill LeFurgy

Hosted by G. P. Gottlieb
In Bill LeFurgy's Into the Suffering City: A Novel of Baltimore (High Kicker Books), Sarah Kennecott is a brilliant young doctor who cares deeply about justice for murder victims after …
Historical Fiction July 2, 2020

Lethal Pursuit

Will Thomas

Hosted by Michael Morales
London, 1892. Private enquiry agents Cyrus Barker and Thomas Llewelyn have been tasked by the Prime Minister to deliver a satchel to the Vatican. The satchel contains a document desperately …
Historical Fiction June 19, 2020

The Library of Legends

Janie Chang

Hosted by C. P. Lesley
Perhaps in anticipation of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the armistice, or just the reality that the last survivors will not be with us much longer, World War II has dominated …
Historical Fiction May 22, 2020

Arroyo

Chip Jacobs

Hosted by G. P. Gottlieb
Two guys named Nick Chance, both with clairvoyant dogs named Royo, both inventors living in Pasadena, California – in 1913 and 1993. The original Nick, who starts out working on …
Historical Fiction May 6, 2020

The Other Bennet Sister

Janice Hadlow

Hosted by C. P. Lesley
It is well known that the novels of Jane Austen (1775–1817), which enjoyed at best a modest success during her lifetime, have become ever more popular in the last fifty …
Art April 13, 2020

The Pelton Papers

Mari Coates

Hosted by C. P. Lesley
Like the better-known and perhaps luckier Georgia O’Keeffe, the American painter Agnes Pelton also found her unique vision in the western desert. As Mari Coates details in our conversation, Pelton …
Historical Fiction March 12, 2020

An Heiress to Remember

The Gilded Age Girls Club

Maya Rodale

Hosted by C. P. Lesley
As Maya Rodale notes early in this interview, romance novels tend not to get the same respect as other categories of fiction, historical or otherwise. Here, and in her Dangerous …
Historical Fiction February 28, 2020

Starvation Shore

Laura Waterman

Hosted by Michael F. Robinson
Laura Waterman talks about her novel, Starvation Shore (University of Wisconsin Press, 2019), which relies upon memoirs, letters, and diaries to reconstruct the life of the Greely Party as it …
Historical Fiction February 26, 2020

The Wild Birds

Emily Strelow

Hosted by G. P. Gottlieb
An orphaned young woman disguises herself as a boy in order to escape the dangers of being alone in 1870’s San Francisco. A group of castoffs destroy the bird population …
Fantasy February 20, 2020

Girl of Fire

Gabrielle Mathieu

Hosted by C. P. Lesley
In the fantasy medieval land of Trea—a conservative society that despite its worship of the goddess Amur respects her human daughters only as wives and mothers—eighteen-year-old Berona has limited expectations …
Historical Fiction February 6, 2020

Gifts for the Dead

Joan Schweighardt

Hosted by C. P. Lesley
Last summer, massive fires in the Amazon rain forest provoked environmental concerns around the world. But the history of exploitation—of the natural world of the rain forest and the people …
Historical Fiction January 9, 2020

The Girls with No Names

Serena Burdick

Hosted by C. P. Lesley
Effie Tildon loves her older sister, Luella. Sixteen to Effie’s thirteen, Luella has long taken the leading role in deciding what the two sisters do, even when it leads them …