Historical Fiction fans, take note! The next few months will find you with an abundance of choice from HarperCollins, starting with Bruce Holsinger's The Invention of Fire (on sale today!). This is the sequel to the critically acclaimed A Burnable Book, and features 14th-century London medieval poet and fixer John Gower in another riveting thriller. Library Journal gave The Invention of Fire a starred review and said, "…aficionados of the historical genre won’t be able to put this novel down.”
Additionally out today is The Bone Tree by Greg Iles. This is the second in his amazing trilogy featuring Penn Cage as he fights to prove his father innocent of murder and finds himself tangled in past Civil Rights murder cases with dangerous and very much present criminals.
On the historical horizon we have Balm by Dolen Perkins-Valdez (the author of Wench), a novel that explores the lives of three people who struggle to overcome the pain of the past and define their own future during Reconstruction, The Race for Paris by Meg Waite Clayton, an engrossing story of two women news reporters during WW II, and Orphan Number Eight by Kim van Alkemade, a wrenching tale of a woman who comes face to face with the doctor whose dangerous medical experiments scarred her as a child and struggles between revenge and forgiveness.
Finally, if you look far into the future you will be thoroughly pulled into the glittering, glamorous past of the Hollywood Era in Adriana Trigiani's All the Stars in the Heavens (out in October). This epic, bold novel includes classic Adriana themes – family ties, artistry, romance, adventure – and mixes in the steaming hot relationship between Loretta Young and Clark Gable. Not to be missed!
Well, I don't know about you but my TBR pile just grew significantly. We'd love to hear from you if you read and love any of these historical fiction novels!
– Annie