historical fiction – Book Club Babble

Paula McLain, author of The Paris Wife, hit a home run with Circling the Sun (2015), her historical fiction take on intrepid aviator Beryl Markham's life. After reading the book, I can't believe I'd never hear... Read More...

Review of Listen to the Wind by Susanne Dunlap

Amy Wilhelm

Reviews

Susanne Dunlap's Listen to the Wind is an engaging work of historical fiction replete with sympathetic characters. The novel is set in thirteenth-century Languedoc, a time when families are torn apart by religi... Read More...

Minds and Hearts Entwined: The Love of Michelangelo Buonarroti and Vittoria Colonna

Amy Wilhelm

Interviews

Love That Moves the Sun illustrates the deep connection between the poet Vittoria Colonna and Michelangelo Buonarroti, while also painting a clear picture of the life and trials of Colonna. In this work of hist... Read More...

A Woman Breaks Into Bullfighting, An Interview with Damian McNicholl

Kelly Sarabyn

Interviews

Inspired by the true story of Patricia McCormick, The Moment of Truth tells the tale of the first American woman to professionally bullfight. Set in the early 1950s, it follows Kathleen Boyd as she drops out of... Read More...

We Were the Lucky Ones, An Interview with Georgia Hunter

Elise Schiller

Interviews

Georgia Hunter has written an epic novel, We Were the Lucky Ones, based on a true family story. Before World War II, her great-grandparents, Nechuma and Sol, owned a thriving business and with their five childr... Read More...

Under a Sardinian Sky – An Interview with Sara Alexander

Tabitha Lord

Interviews, on Books

Mina, a London-based travel writer, returns to her family's home in Sardinia to bury an aunt. With her mother also gravely ill, she worries that her family's history will be lost as the last of that generation ... Read More...

The Silver Baron’s Wife – An Interview With Donna Baier Stein

Tabitha Lord

Interviews

A remarkable woman dares to take hold of her own life at a time when that was the exception rather than the rule. The Silver Baron's Wife follows the story of Elizabeth Tabor from young girl, to newlywed, to di... Read More...

Interview with Fiona Davis, Author of The Dollhouse

Kelly Sarabyn

Interviews

The Dollhouse is the riveting story of two American women living at the famed Barbizon Hotel sixty years apart. In 1952, the Barbizon is a New York boarding house for aspiring models, editors and secretaries... Read More...

Interview with Anna Solomon, Author of Leaving Lucy Pear

Kelly Sarabyn

Interviews

Leaving Lucy Pear is the heartbreaking story of Lucy Pear, a daring girl who was birthed by one woman and raised by another. But it is not only Lucy’s story; it is the story of both Lucy’s mothers and their fam... Read More...

When Good Books Make Bad Mistakes

Kate Newton

on Reading

First, let me say as a disclaimer that Donna Tartt is one of my favorite authors. I’ve only read two of her books—but then, she’s only written three. She writes a book about every ten years. Considering I’m jus... Read More...

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