Historical Fiction

It’s A Mystery

I don’t read a lot of Mystery/Thrillers. When I ask myself what I want to read, Mystery/Thrillers don’t come up. However, after reading Stieg Larsson’s Millennium series and Tana French’s In the Woods (loved – review to post soon), I have been wondering why that is. There is just something about a character who is [...]

Filed Under: About Literate Housewife, Reading Tagged With: genres, Gothic Fiction, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Mystery/Thriller, women's fiction

Tuesday’s Temptation ~ July 13

13 Jul By Jennifer 11 Comments

Despite how wonderful my current reads might be (or, this week, how incredibly disturbing), I really enjoy being able to look over my shelves and drool over the as-of-yet unread goodies. I don’t know about you, but I could spend a half hour or more just touching the spines and, because I have to double [...]

Filed Under: Tuesday's Tempatation Tagged With: American Civil War, Historical Fiction, My Name is Mary Sutter, Robin Oliveira

#228 ~ The Heretic Queen (mini review)

13 Jan By Jennifer 7 Comments

The Heretic Queen by Michelle Moran I read Michelle Moran’s first novel, Nefertiti, with my Facebook book club, Historical Fiction Lovers book club. Nefertiti was our Queen of August. We all loved the novel so much that we made The Heretic Queen or selection for November. We all loved it just as much. This novel [...]

Filed Under: book review, female author, fiction, Historical Fiction Tagged With: Add new tag, Historical Fiction, Michelle Moran, Nefertari, Nefertiti: A Novel, The Heretic Queen: A Novel

#209 ~ The Brother’s Boswell

6 Nov By Jennifer 3 Comments

The Brothers Boswell by Philip Baruth Samuel Johnson and James Boswell are well known literary figures and friends. James Boswelll’s brother John is less widely known. It was the combination of a novel about two authors I didn’t know very well combined with an unstable, hidden brother that intrigued me immediately when I was offered [...]

Filed Under: book review, Historical Fiction, Historical Fiction Lovers Book Club, male author Tagged With: Historical Fiction, James Boswell, London, Philip Baruth, Samuel Johnson, Soho Press, The Brothers Boswell

A Conversation with C.W. Gortner

10 Jul By Jennifer Leave a Comment

Today, C.W. Gortner will be visiting the Historical Fiction Lovers Book Club on Facebook to discuss The Last Queen, our selection for July. The Last Queen was one of my Top 10 novels last year. To participate, simply head over to the Event I set up and join in. Leave comments or ask questions [...]

Filed Under: authors, Historical Fiction Lovers Book Club Tagged With: C. W. Gortner, Facebook, Historical Fiction, The Last Queen: A Novel

#140 ~ The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

7 Feb By Literate Housewife 9 Comments

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows In this novel, Shaffer and Barrows tell a story of chance encounters and destiny through letters mailed mainly between Juliet Ashton, a British author, and several citizens of Guernsey in the Channel Islands. Relationships that begin as a fluke when [...]

Filed Under: Books, Historical Fiction, War Through the Generations Tagged With: Annie Barrows, audio book, book review, Guernsey, Historical Fiction, letter writing, Mary Ann Shaffer, Nazi occupation, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, War on the Margins, War Through the Generations Reading Challenge

#138 ~ Etta

30 Jan By Literate Housewife 6 Comments

Etta by Gerald Kolpan I am not typically one for reading Westerns. The American West has never held my imagination the way it has for so many people. Still, when Etta was offered as an Early Reader choice on LibraryThing in December, I requested it and was lucky enough to snag it. I don’t think [...]

Filed Under: Books, Historical Fiction, Reading Tagged With: Black Hand, book review, Butch Cassidy, Early Reviewer, Etta, Etta Place, fiction, Gerald Kolpan, Historical Fiction, Kid Curry, LibraryThing, Sundance Kid, train robbery, Western, Wild Bunch

#135 ~ My Lady of Cleves

14 Jan By Literate Housewife 10 Comments

My Lady of Cleves: A Novel of Henry VIII and Anne of Cleves by Margaret Campbell Barnes Anne of Cleves was the most unlikely of all of Henry VIII’s wives. She did not especially want to be queen, she was not physically beautiful, and she was rather forced upon him in order to produce an [...]

Filed Under: Books, Henry VIII, Historical Fiction, Reading Tagged With: Anne of Cleves, book review, Henry VIII, Historical Fiction, Katherine Howard, Margaret Campbell Barnes, My Lady of Cleves, Tudor fiction

#134 ~ Loving Frank

13 Jan By Literate Housewife 11 Comments

Loving Frank by Nancy Horan In search of a home of his own, Mr. Edwin Cheney of Chicago convinced his wife Mamah to agree to commissioning a local American architect, Frank Lloyd Wright, to design and build their family home. Mr. Cheney gained his house, but he couldn’t have known that he would ultimately lose [...]

Filed Under: Books, Historical Fiction, Reading Tagged With: American architecture, architecture, book review, Chicago, divorce, Edna Pontellier, Ellen Key, fiction, Frank Lloyd Wright, Historical Fiction, Japan, Loving Frank, Mamah Cheney, Nancy Horan, The Awakening, The Yellow Wallpaper, Wisconsin, women's suffrage

#132 ~ The Conqueror

28 Dec By Literate Housewife 6 Comments

The Conqueror by Georgette Heyer The Conqueror tells the story of William the Conqueror, from his bastard birth, to his life as the Duke of Normandy, and finally to his triumphant rise to the throne of England. Given the circumstances of William’s life and the political climate of both Normandy and England in the 11th [...]