historical novel | historical novel
Jan.09.2013
My novel, Perfect Red, is set in 1952 New York. The main character, Lucy, who is the secretary to a prominent book editor, writes a book on a Royal manual typewriter. I love the era of the typewriter -- I love the sound of typewriters, the look of them, the whole idea of actually putting a word on...
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Dec.12.2012
Fascinating novel with a telegraphed ending.
Laurel Nicolson is hiding from her family, savoring a few private moments. She has a secret; she is running away to London to become an actress and in love with the most exciting boy Laurel has ever met. Doubting that her happy, but boring parents would...
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Nov.09.2012
My guest today is Christy English, author of The Queen's Pawn and To Be Queen. After years of acting in Shakespeare's plays, Christy is excited to bring the Bard to Regency England in her new novel How To Tame A Willful Wife which has just been released. When she isn't acting, roller skating, or...
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Apr.25.2012
Getting Out of Dodge City, Heading for L.A. on the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe is a short novel that reads like a memoir and that will appeal to those interested in black American history and the dynamics of poor black American families from the early 1800s to the 1960s.
The story begins...
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Jul.25.2011
The creation of Famine Ghost: Genocide of the Irish:
Richly illustrated, painstaking in the research done both in the U.S. and the U.K. by O’Keefe, Famine Ghost is a rare compilation of history and story-telling to educate all ages.
“O’Keefe has delicately balanced history with touching...
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Jan.26.2011
I dedicate this blog entry to Jewish Shanghai. The subject has fascinated me since childhood. Don't you feel curious, as I did, to hear the words "Jew" and "Shanghai" in the same sentence? My young imagination conjured up a world faraway from my San Francisco home based on...
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Aug.04.2010
'The Lonely Tree, movingly written by rising author Yael Politis, is an important contribution to Jewish and Zionist literature.’
‘The Gush, as it is commonly known, originally included four kibbutzim (communal settlements). Today it boasts 18 communities and a population of about 40,000. Replete...
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Jun.23.2010
Another rave review for The Lonely Tree by Yael Politis. This time on Curious Book Fans:
“...the author explains in a note that Kfar Etzion and the historical events described really did happen, although the Shulman family are completely fictional. That makes this book all the more powerful – it...
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Jun.12.2010
The Lonely Tree by Yael Politis is starting to receive very good reviews:
‘I believe that you will find not a single dull paragraph in this entire work. It is a gripping insight into the psyche of several different kinds of person, a vivid account of the forces that drive both human idealism and...
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May.06.2010
The hour between 9:00 and 10:00 that morning was one of the longest of Tonia’s life. A lot of people wandered along the sidewalk of the Plaza, but none of them seemed to be tired, hungry, or thirsty. Mike returned and leaned his bike against the front window. ‘Back and ready for more.’ He...
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