The Best New Historical Fiction
C.W. Gortner’s novel The Last Queen (Ballantine Books) was a Marin Independent Journal bestseller and is currently being translated into eight languages. His next novel, The Confessions of Catherine de Medici will be published in 2010. He holds a MFA in Writing with an emphasis on Renaissance Studies and is a regular contributor to the Historical Novels Review. Visit him here or at his blog.
A female pope, a Japanese sleuth, stolen treasure, and a deal with the Devil-six sparkling new works of historical fiction that will replace your nixed trip to Bermuda with some time travel.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
Leslie H. Gelb, a former New York Times columnist and senior government official, is author of Power Rules: How Common Sense Can Rescue American Foreign Policy (HarperCollins 2009), a book that shows how to think about and use power in the 21st century. He is president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
Jacob Bernstein is a senior reporter at The Daily Beast. Previously, he was a features writer at WWD and W Magazine. He has also written for New York magazine, Paper, and The Huffington Post.
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