XO Éditions, a leading French publishing house, announces that its flagship author Mireille Calmel, a major figure in French medieval historical fiction, is about to cross the symbolic milestone of 4.

This isn’t Enrigue’s first foray into historical absurdism. His previous novel published in English, You Dreamed of Empires, retells the encounter between the conquistador Hernán Cortés and the Aztec ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Graeme Macrae Burnet is among the contenders for this year's Walter Scott Prize [Getty Images] Two Scottish authors are among the ...

Seven years ago, bestselling novelists Kate Quinn and Janie Chang met at a historical fiction writers conference in Portand, then embarked on a joint book tour a few months later. From that road trip ...

As a historical fiction author, Kristina McMorris has made a career out of exploring untold nuggets of history. Her novel “Sold on a Monday” was inspired by a real newspaper photo of children under a ...

The book "Burn Down Master's House" brings little known stories of historical figures to the surface in vivid detail.

LONGVIEW — Former Lower Columbia College professor and counselor Mary Stone has released her first short story collection of historical fiction. In “The Innocents at Home — Children of the 1940s,” ...

A retired English teacher and author from southwest Iowa is releasing her third book, this time focused on Iowa’s underground moonshining industry during the days of prohibition a century ago. Ann ...

Few forms of entertainment captivate like a really good story that whisks you away to another time—and historical romance ...

In contemporary publishing, novels fixated on the past rather than the present have garnered the most attention and prestige. The 68th National Book Awards at Cipriani Wall Street, 2017. On Friday, ...