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Historical Fiction
Interviews with writers of historical fiction about their new books.
October 12, 2026
March 1917
In this latest Books for Better Understanding video from Notre Dame Press, David Carlson facilitates a conversation between Marian Schwartz and Dan Ma…
October 12, 2026
Samantha: The Next Chapter
Samantha: The Next Chapter (American Girl Publishing, 2026). From American Girl and New York Times bestselling author Fiona Davis comes the next chapt…
September 22, 2026
When They Came Home
It seems likely that most listeners to this podcast channel have heard of “shell shock,” the old name for what is now called post-traumatic stress dis…
September 1, 2026
Our Strange Duet
Our Strange Duet: Inspired by Andrew Lloyd Webber's Phantom of the Opera (Delacorte Press, 2026) is a reimagining of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Phantom of …
August 25, 2026
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
In 2021, the NAACP Image Award-winning poet Honorée Fanonne Jeffers made her fiction debut with The Love Songs of W.E.B. DuBois, a magisterial epic …
August 14, 2026
The Castle in the Glen
I love Rhys Bowen’s historical mystery series, especially Her Royal Spyness books, which feature Lady Georgiana Rannoch. The Castle in the Glen (Lake …
August 4, 2026
The House of Boleyn
When nobleman Thomas Boleyn, lord of Hever Castle, is called to London in 1509 to present himself to a newly anointed King Henry VIII, he sets in trai…
July 15, 2026
The Unforgettable Mailman
In the midst of texting and cell phones, online websites and GPS, it can be difficult to remember an era when almost all communication took place by l…
June 18, 2026
A Shop Girl's Guide to Wooing a Lord
Romance novels—especially historical romance novels—thrive on heroes and heroines who don’t match in terms of social class. There must be conflict, af…
June 9, 2026
A Ram for Mars, A Slave's Story Book 3
What would you do if you were pressured to support a rebellion that you believed was misguided and doomed to failure? What if the safety of your f…
May 15, 2026
A Founding Mother
So close to the semiquincentennial, it’s great to see a novel focused on the life of Abigail Adams, a woman appreciated even in her own time—especiall…
April 21, 2026
And the Ancestors Sing
Starting in the late 1970s, three women navigate post Cultural Revolution China: Lulu, who’s forced to become a prostitute in Shanghai to save her mot…
April 15, 2026
The Fourth Wife
There must be a shift in the Zeitgeist of the publishing world, because after a long drought in Gothic novels, this is the second one I’ve encountered…
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…