We’ve got a fictional small town fighting for its life, two historical novels set in the Twin Cities, and one that brings memories of the old Dayton’s department store. Several of these authors will ...
H elen Cam (1885-1968), the first woman to be elected to a chair at Harvard, was a formidable English medievalist. Unusually ...
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Five Canadian writers have made the shortlist for the 2024 Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize ... readers looking to study the craft of writing." This year's jury is composed of ...
“But I needed them more.” One of the best works of historical fiction in recent years, this story by O’Farrell, a beautiful writer, is so evocative that you can almost smell the freshly baked bread ...
We learn in a historical note that Harris had access to Asquith’s letters to Stanley — 560 of them in all, running to “some 300,000 words.” They show the prime minister in all his besotted ...
Decisions are made on the back of past events, and lives are affected by the stories of those that came before us. Historical fiction books resonate with modern readers because they give us the chance ...
Detective fiction had grown a little dull ... “I suggest that we try to do a little more with what may be called the historical detective story,” Chesterton wrote. “Godfrey was found in a ditch in ...
Rarely is historical fiction this fraught and alive. The novel’s prose throughout is clear and balanced, and rarely showy for its own sake, though when he does reach for lyricism, Serong finds ...