There's something magnetic about historical novels that blur the line between fact and fiction. You get the drama, the characters, the storytelling - but underneath it all, there's real history. Real ...

As a boy, I devoured the historically accurate and side-splittingly funny Harry Flashman novels by George MacDonald Fraser, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Grace Kelly, Vivien Leigh, Judy Garland, Ingrid Bergman…Hollywood’s Golden Age brought about some of the most beautiful and iconic ...

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

The Seattle Public Library loves to promote books and reading. This column, submitted by the library, is a space to share reading and book trends from a librarian’s perspective. You can find these ...

Location is key in these history-inspired novels whose settings include Alabama in the 1960s and Washington during the McCarthy era. Quinn’s thriller-esque works are mostly set in wartime, but in this ...

You might think your favorite classic novels sprung purely from the imagination of brilliant authors. Think again.Behind some ...

Recent pop culture would lead many to believe that historical fiction is mainly the province of the bodice ripper. The popularity of Netflix’s Bridgerton alongside other period drama faves Downton ...

Two big-canvas historical novels — E.L. Doctorow's The March and William T. Vollmann's Europe Central — are among the finalists for a National Book Critics Circle Award. The fiction award is one of ...

The publishing landscape is changing yet again, with the most recent shift set to impact readers of historical romance books. Harlequin Historical, which launched in 1988, is one of the publisher’s ...

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, ...