Kate braithwaite

Historical Novel Society

  • Monday Bookishness – The Book of Lost Friends by Lisa Wingate

    I was a big fan of Lisa Wingate’s last book, Before We Were Yours – about the scandalous adoption agency run by Georgia Tann in the 1940s – and jumped at the chance to review her new book for the Historical Novel Society. So this is not a review – because that’s for the HNS…

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  • Monday bookishness – The Lost Orphan by Stacey Halls

    Okay. New week, new plan. Every Monday I’m going to post something about a book I want to read/want to recommend/have on my mind. And so I’m kicking off with a new piece I have up on the Historical Novel Society website, based on a Q&A I was lucky enough to do with historical novelist…

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  • Interview with Sarah Perry

    I am lucky enough to sometimes have the chance to ask other novelists questions about their work for the Historical Novel Society and write up feature articles. There’s always something more in the Q&A that I can’t work into the articles though. So here’s a chance to read the whole conversation. Talking about The Essex…

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  • New book reviews

    With a new edition of the Historical Novel Review out, I can share the three books I reviewed this quarter, plus the feature I wrote for the print magazine. Here they are: My reviews are available from the Historical Novel Society, but in brief… Sword of Destiny by Justin Hill. This is a must-read for…

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  • 1924, the year that made Hitler

    A quick link to my most recent article for the Historical Novel Society about 1924, the Year that made Hitler:   This is the kind of non-fiction I really enjoy – clearly well researched but also highly readable and engaging. I particularly liked the way Peter Ross Range gave his view on Hitler’s character in…

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