Amid the inevitable violence and horror, there are the equally inevitable heroes and villains, but for everyone the world has ...

With stories set in Ancient Rome, Gilded Age New York, and more, these are the most anticipated historical fiction books of ...

One local author has recently published a new historical fiction book based on the "Hello Girls" of World War I and shared ...

Allen Eskens has built a strong collection of characters in his first nine novels, beginning with “The Life We Bury” in 2014.

Author Barbara Southard breaks down how teaching a graduate seminar on US history started her on the path to writing a ...

She starts to learn about family events that have long been buried—things even her mother doesn’t know—only when she finds a ...

Here, we gathered up 10 historical fiction books set in Italy—across many bygone eras and World Wars—that deliver immersive plots, beautifully written details (many inspired by true stories ...

In Gretel and the Great War, an antic epistolary novel set in early 20th-century Austria, the writer tries to make sense of a society gone mad. A postcard depicting Vienna in the future, 1905.

In “Bibliophobia,” Sarah Chihaya combines criticism and memoir to write about reading’s role in a life’s highs and lows ...

What book do you love to recommend and why? "The Postcard" by Anne Berest is such an exquisite translation, perhaps the best I've ever read, from the original French. Historical fiction ...

From the storied histories of landmarks like the Colosseum and the Sistine Chapel to the jaw-dropping beauty of Venice and the glittering Mediterranean Sea, it's no wonder Italy is regarded as one of ...