Joyce Moore's Historical Books Blog

Always the Music  is the story of Cosima, born in 1837 to the Hungarian pianist and composer Franz Liszt and his mistress, Marie d’Agoult...

Julia Augustii, daughter of the man who inherited his power from Julius Caesar, was born in 39 BC. As an infant, she was betrothed to Marc A...

The history of coffee can be traced back to at least the 13th century, but if may have been used for years before that. After the 16th ce...

The protagonist in my current work-in-progress is from Warsaw, and in doing research about the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, I ran across...

I loved mysteries as a teenager, but somewhere along the way, I turned to historical novels, my first love. However, not long ago I took the...

As early as the 8 th century, musical instruments have had keys, though the keyed instrument Emperor Constantine sent to King Pepin of ...

 HNS Reception - photo by Adelaida Lucena-Lower  Recently I attended the Historical Novel Society's conference in San Diego, where ...