הפודקאסטים הטובים ביותר ב-Historical Fiction (2025)

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Sarah Landenwich, "The Fire Concerto" (Union Square Publishing, 2025) 37:33

2d ago37:33

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This compelling debut novel explores the interconnected lives of three acclaimed female concert pianists: Clara Bishop; her teacher, Zofia Mikorska; and their nineteenth-century predecessor, Constantia Pleyel—best known for her arrest and subsequent incarceration for the murder of her own piano teacher, a composer named Aleksander Starza. Exactly h…

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Episode 234 - Jenelle Hovde Author Chat 33:05

3d ago33:05

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Christian Historical Fiction Talk is listener supported. When you buy things through this site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Become a patron and enjoy special perks and bonus content. Jenelle Hovde is a newcomer to the show but not to writing, though she takes her first foray into Regency romance with her latest release, No Stone Unturned. …

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Dead Dead Girls by Nekesa Afia: Everything’s Flop Babe 32:29

4d ago32:29

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We're excited to introduce a new subgenre to the pod this week with our first mystery novel! Find out the person, place, and weapon in this week's episode on Dead Dead Girls by Nekesa Afia. Five or Flop is a podcast dedicated to the best and worst historical fiction has to offer. Each week we'll be reading a new book and rating it on a scale of flo…

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Episode 233 - Dawn Wagner Reader Chat 36:33

9d ago36:33

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Christian Historical Fiction Talk is listener supported. When you buy things through this site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Become a patron and enjoy special perks and bonus content. Dawn Wagner, a voracious reader, joins us on the podcast this week to chat about books! She shares how she manages to read so much while homeschooling three b…

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The House of Doors by Tan Twan Eng: Flopping on the Veranda 41:30

11d ago41:30

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We're crossing decades and oceans this week, and juggling tons of real-life historical figures: we're reading The House of Doors by Tan Twan Eng! Five or Flop is a podcast dedicated to the best and worst historical fiction has to offer. Each week we'll be reading a new book and rating it on a scale of flop, fine, or five. The theme for Season Four …

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Dennard Dayle, "How to Dodge a Cannonball: A Novel" (Henry Holt, 2025) 1:03:30

13d ago1:03:30

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How to Dodge a Cannonball is a razor-sharp satire that dives into the heart of the Civil War, hilariously questioning the essence of the fight, not just for territory, but for the soul of America. How to Dodge a Cannonball (Henry Holt, 2025) is funnier than the Civil War should ever be. It follows Anders, a teenage idealist who enlists and reenlist…

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Episode 232 - Elizabeth Musser Author Chat 41:16

17d ago41:16

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Christian Historical Fiction Talk is listener supported. When you buy things through this site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Become a patron and enjoy special perks and bonus content. All the way from France, Elizabeth Musser joins us this week to chat about her latest release, a wonderful WWII novel called From the Valley We Rise. She's es…

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Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides: Flop Dog Stands 57:07

18d ago57:07

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We're two-thirds of the way through Season 4, and this week is a big one: we're reading Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides! The book covers a lot of ground, we have a lot of thoughts, and the historical accuracy section is a lot longer than usual! Five or Flop is a podcast dedicated to the best and worst historical fiction has to offer. Each week we'll…

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Episode 231 - Amy Lynn Green Author Chat 29:38

24d ago29:38

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Christian Historical Fiction Talk is listener supported. When you buy things through this site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Become a patron and enjoy special perks and bonus content. Amy Lynn Green returns to the show this week to chat about her new release, The Codebreaker's Daughter. She tells us about how codebreaking began in the US du…

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Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta: Flopping in a Feminist Modern Way 40:24

25d ago40:24

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Cantoras, Part 2? Grace and Erin disagree over this week's book, Under the Udala Trees, but we're excited to return to an era we previously visited in Season 2! Five or Flop is a podcast dedicated to the best and worst historical fiction has to offer. Each week we'll be reading a new book and rating it on a scale of flop, fine, or five. The theme f…

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Episode 230 - Christine Hill Suntz Author Chat 31:37

1M ago31:37

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Christian Historical Fiction Talk is listener supported. When you buy things through this site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Become a patron and enjoy special perks and bonus content. Christine Hill Suntz joins us all the way from Canada this week to talk about her new book, The Lawyer and the Laundress. During the interview, we chat about …

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A Lady for a Duke by Alexis Hall: Premise Five, Practice Flop 52:45

1M ago52:45

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This week, we tackle our romance pick for the season: A Lady for a Duke, a classic historical romance with an LGBTQ+ twist! Five or Flop is a podcast dedicated to the best and worst historical fiction has to offer. Each week we'll be reading a new book and rating it on a scale of flop, fine, or five. The theme for Season Four is Reading Rainbow. Le…

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Episode 229 - Joanna Politano Author Chat 25:57

1M ago25:57

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Christian Historical Fiction Talk is listener supported. When you buy things through this site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Become a patron and enjoy special perks and bonus content. Joanna Politano comes to the show this week to chat about her new release, The Curious Inheritance of Blakely House. This novel combines steampunk, romance, m…

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Cantoras by Caro de Robertis: Erin's Flight Flops Again 46:08

1M ago46:08

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Erin's back from Ireland with another plane story, Grace's AC is on full blast, and we have a new book and a new era on deck: Cantoras by Caro de Robertis, set in 1970s Uruguay! Note: Erin was correct in the episode! The Thirty Names of Night did win the Stonewall Book Award in 2021. Five or Flop is a podcast dedicated to the best and worst histori…

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Jack Wang, "The Riveter" (HarperVia, 2025) 52:42

1M ago52:42

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NBN host Hollay Ghadery speaks with author Jack Wang about his novel, The Riveter (HarperVia, 2025). In the vein of All the Light We Cannot See, a cross-cultural love story set against the dramatic backdrop of the Allied invasion of Europe during WWII. Vancouver, 1942. Josiah Chang arrives in the bustling city ready to make a new life for himself. …

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Episode 228- Jen Turano Author Chat 37:39

1M ago37:39

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Christian Historical Fiction Talk is listener supported. When you buy things through this site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Become a patron and enjoy special perks and bonus content. Jen Turano joins us this week for a lively chat about her most recent release, A Lesson in Propriety. Want to know what favorite cartoon of hers helped to ins…

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Karen Swan, "The Midnight Secret" (Macmillan, 2025) 47:58

1M ago47:58

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Keeping details straight while writing a chronologically organized series is difficult enough. Focusing four full-length novels on the events of a single group experience in a single year, with back stories and future developments for a small group of heroines, each of whom has a chance to tell her own story of the central event and its consequence…

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Daughters of the Deer by Danielle Daniel: How Do You Say Flop in French? 1:10:06

2M ago1:10:06

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It's a special week, not only because we're reading Daughters of the Deer, but because we are joined by a special guest host: Jen! Will this episode be streamed more than Love in the Time of Cholera? Let's find out! The queer indigenous language source cited by Erin in the historical accuracy section can be found here: https://queerlanguage.com/201…

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Episode 227 - Favorite Romance Tropes 28:26

2M ago28:26

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Christian Historical Fiction Talk is listener supported. When you buy things through this site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Become a patron and enjoy special perks and bonus content. Have a favorite romance trope? Maybe meet-cute, meet-cringe, love at first sight, enemies to lovers, friends to lovers, love triangles, forced proximity, off-…

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The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue: Finally Free From Flops 50:55

2M ago50:55

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We're off to Ireland (and so is Erin) this week, reading The Pull of the Stars by Emma Donoghue! Hopefully, Erin doesn't catch the Spanish flu while she's there. Five or Flop is a podcast dedicated to the best and worst historical fiction has to offer. Each week we'll be reading a new book and rating it on a scale of flop, fine, or five. The theme …

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Frank X Walker, "Load in Nine Times: Poems" (Liveright, 2024) 1:24:30

2M ago1:24:30

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For decades Frank X Walker has reclaimed essential American lives through his pathbreaking historical poetry. In this stirring new collection, he reimagines the experiences of Black Civil War soldiers—including his own ancestors—who enlisted in the Union army in exchange for emancipation. Moving chronologically from antebellum Kentucky through Reco…

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Episode 226 - Barbara Tifft Blakey Author Chat 37:27

2M ago37:27

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Christian Historical Fiction Talk is listener supported. When you buy things through this site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Become a patron and enjoy special perks and bonus content. Barbara Tifft Blakey, a first-timer on the show, joins us this week to chat about her new release, The Angel of Second Street. We discuss the interesting stor…

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The Persian Boy by Mary Renault: Alexander the Flop 36:12

2M ago36:12

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This week, Erin confronts an old enemy when we read Mary Renault's The Persian Boy, the second in her Alexander the Great trilogy. Five or Flop is a podcast dedicated to the best and worst historical fiction has to offer. Each week we'll be reading a new book and rating it on a scale of flop, fine, or five. The theme for Season Four is Reading Rain…

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Episode 225 - Jennifer Uhlarik Author Chat 33:07

2M ago33:07

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Christian Historical Fiction Talk is listener supported. When you buy things through this site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Become a patron and enjoy special perks and bonus content. Jennifer Uhlarik returns to the podcast this week to talk to us about her latest release, Love and Order. She tells us why this book is so unique, how a Flori…

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The Thirty Names of Night by Zeyn Joukhadar: An Unprecedented Number of Flops in NYC 40:18

2M ago40:18

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In this episode, we're headed to both Syria AND Little Syria with The Thirty Names of Night by Zeyn Joukhadar! We hope you like birds, because there certainly are an unprecedented number of them. Five or Flop is a podcast dedicated to the best and worst historical fiction has to offer. Each week we'll be reading a new book and rating it on a scale …

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Episode 224 - Dana McNeely Author Chat 28:47

2M ago28:47

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Christian Historical Fiction Talk is listener supported. When you buy things through this site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Become a patron and enjoy special perks and bonus content. Dana McNeely is a first time guest on the show, and we're so pleased to have her join us to talk about her book, Mantle. We chat about her road to publication…

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Gwen and Art Are Not in Love by Lex Croucher: Camelflop 53:10

2M ago53:10

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We're back this week with another audiobook and another Grace and Erin disagreement: it's Arthurian legend time, and we're reading Gwen and Art Are Not in Love! Five or Flop is a podcast dedicated to the best and worst historical fiction has to offer. Each week we'll be reading a new book and rating it on a scale of flop, fine, or five. The theme f…

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Joanna Miller, "The Eights" (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2025) 43:22

2M ago43:22

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Joanna Miller’s The Eights (G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2025) follows four women attending the University of Oxford in 1920. They are not the first female university students in the United Kingdom, or even the first who can hope to attain a degree, but they are the first class of women who can, if they fulfill all the requirements, attain a university deg…

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Episode 223 - Lauraine Snelling and Kiersti Giron Author Chat 35:52

3M ago35:52

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Christian Historical Fiction Talk is listener supported. When you buy things through this site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Become a patron and enjoy special perks and bonus content. Lauraine Snelling and Kiersti Giron join us to chat about their new book, Land of Dreams. One of the pioneers in the Christian fiction industry, Lauraine now …

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Fellow Travelers by Thomas Mallon: Floppy Bottom 1:09:14

3M ago1:09:14

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Five or Flop is back, and with the help of a special guest, we're kicking off Reading Rainbow with Fellow Travelers by Thomas Mallon! Are we more excited to discuss a book set in DC, or an adaptation starring Jonathan Bailey? Listen and find out! Five or Flop is a podcast dedicated to the best and worst historical fiction has to offer. Each week we…

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Episode 222 - Tracie Peterson Author Chat 34:46

3M ago34:46

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Christian Historical Fiction Talk is listener supported. When you buy things through this site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Become a patron and enjoy special perks and bonus content. Tracie Peterson returns to the show this week to talk about her new book, A Constant Love. We discuss what the dying up winter was, how and why she tackles to…

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Tim Welsh, "Ley Lines" (Guernica Editions, 2025) 33:24

3M ago33:24

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In this NBN episode, host Hollay Ghadery speaks with debut Toronto author Tim Welsh about his novel, Ley Lines, published by Guernica Editions, 2025. Set in the waning days of the Klondike Gold Rush, Ley Lines begins in the mythical boom town of Sawdust City, Yukon Territory. Luckless prospector Steve Ladle has accepted an unusual job offer: accomp…

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Episode 221 - Lauralee Bliss Author Chat 31:16

3M ago31:16

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Christian Historical Fiction Talk is listener supported. When you buy things through this site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Become a patron and enjoy special perks and bonus content. Lauralee Bliss returns to the podcast this week to discuss her latest release, When the Avalanche Roared. We talk about the history behind this fascinating sl…

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Alka Joshi, "Six Days in Bombay" (Mira, 2025) 49:49

3M ago49:49

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Sona Falstaff, a hospital nurse in Bombay, has things more or less where she wants them. Yes, she faces a certain discrimination, positive and negative, because of her mixed heritage, which makes her a “half-half” in the lingo of 1930s India. She lives in a poor section of the city, and she must work to support herself and her aging mother. India i…

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Episode 220 - Book Clubs - The Usual and The Unusual 30:11

3M ago30:11

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Christian Historical Fiction Talk is listener supported. When you buy things through this site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Become a patron and enjoy special perks and bonus content. This week we chat about book clubs. What's a silent book club? What are some good online book clubs and how do they work? Are there disadvantages to them? Wha…

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Episode 219 - Sarah Sundin Author Chat 34:56

4M ago34:56

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Christian Historical Fiction Talk is listener supported. When you buy things through this site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Become a patron and enjoy special perks and bonus content. Sarah Sundin joins us this week to chat about her new book, Midnight on the Scottish Shore. We talk about how different the hero and heroine are and how much …

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Somehow Five AND Flop: HBO's Dear America Film Adaptations 24:16

4M ago24:16

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It's the final bonus episode of Season 3, and it's a special one- we're watching two half-hour long short film adaptations of So Far From Home and Cleopatra! Five or Flop is a podcast dedicated to the best and worst historical fiction has to offer. Each week we'll be reading a new book and rating it on a scale of flop, fine, or five. The theme for …

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Episode 218 - Jennifer Deibel Author Chat 27:11

4M ago27:11

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Christian Historical Fiction Talk is listener supported. When you buy things through this site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Become a patron and enjoy special perks and bonus content. Jennifer Deibel transports us to Ireland this week as she comes for a chat about her new book, Heart of the Glen. In addition to talking about her favorite cu…

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Flop for Making Us Cry: Watching Ashes in the Snow 23:36

4M ago23:36

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We're back with a far less happy movie adaptation. We're watching Ashes in the Snow, the movie version of Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys! Join us for a good cry and more identifying where we know the cast from. Five or Flop is a podcast dedicated to the best and worst historical fiction has to offer. Each week we'll be reading a new book an…

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Heather Akou, "Afterthought: A Family Story" (Indiana U Libraries, 2025) 55:30

4M ago55:30

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Afterthought: A Family Story (Indiana University Bloomington Libraries Publishing, 2025) by Dr. Heather Akou focuses on the life of her grandmother, Lila Slaback, who grew up in a dysfunctional, working-class family in La Crosse, Wisconsin, in the 1930s. In her short adult life, she gave birth to seven children with at least four different men and …

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Episode 217 - Author Chat with Donna Wichelman 27:17

4M ago27:17

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Christian Historical Fiction Talk is listener supported. When you buy things through this site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Become a patron and enjoy special perks and bonus content. Donna Wichelman, a first-time guest, joins us this week to talk about her new book, A Song of Deliverance. In addition to talking about the book, we discuss h…

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Victoria Christopher Murray, "Harlem Rhapsody" (Berkley, 2025) 37:27

4M ago37:27

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Most people in North America have probably at least heard the name W. E. B. Dubois. In the early twentieth century, DuBois—the first African-American to earn a Ph.D. from Harvard—published and spoke extensively about his vision of equality through education. In particular, he edited The Crisis, the monthly magazine of the NAACP, while also writing …

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Five Cast, Flop Soundtrack: The Catherine, Called Birdy Movie 23:21

4M ago23:21

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It's the most anticipated adaptation of season three: today we're watching Lena Dunham's film adaptation of Catherine, Called Birdy! Five or Flop is a podcast dedicated to the best and worst historical fiction has to offer. Each week we'll be reading a new book and rating it on a scale of flop, fine, or five. The theme for Season Three is Back to S…

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Episode 216 - Jill Eileen Smith Author Chat 32:22

4M ago32:22

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Christian Historical Fiction Talk is listener supported. When you buy things through this site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Become a patron and enjoy special perks and bonus content. Jill Eileen Smith returns to the show this week to talk about her new book, Dawn of Grace. Among other things, we talk about her move from women of the Old Te…

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The Fives and Flops to Rule Them All: A Complete Podcast Ranking 29:27

4M ago29:27

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We're back from a brief hiatus with our first between-season bonus episode! In this episode, we're revisiting all of our past reads and choosing the floppiest flops, the finest fines, and the fivest fives. Five or Flop is a podcast dedicated to the best and worst historical fiction has to offer. Each week we'll be reading a new book and rating it o…

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Episode 215 - Elizabeth Camden Author Chat 31:14

5M ago31:14

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Christian Historical Fiction Talk is listener supported. When you buy things through this site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Become a patron and enjoy special perks and bonus content. Elizabeth Camden makes a return appearance on the show this week, talking about When Stars Light the Sky. We chat about life in Berlin during WWI, the differe…

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Sara Adrien, "Instead of Harmony: A Second Chance Regency Romance" (2023) 35:37

5M ago35:37

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Raphael Klonimus battles deep regret. Haunted by losing Laila, he sees himself as a coward for letting her slip away. But fate offers him a second chance. He whisks Laila away to a secluded castle, determined to reignite their passionate love. A single, soul-stirring kiss sparks hope, yet Raphael knows their journey to happiness will be challenging…

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Episode 214 - KyLee Woodley Author Chat 33:03

5M ago33:03

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Christian Historical Fiction Talk is listener supported. When you buy things through this site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Become a patron and enjoy special perks and bonus content. KyLee Woodley joins us this week. I've had to change things around a little due to scheduling conflicts, but you're going to enjoy this conversation about her…

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Episode 213 - AI and Fiction 35:37

5M ago35:37

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Christian Historical Fiction Talk is listener supported. When you buy things through this site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Become a patron and enjoy special perks and bonus content. AI and fiction. What do they have to do with each other? Maybe more than you think. In this week's episode, I discuss how I, as an author and editor, use AI, …

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Elyse Durham, "Maya & Natasha" (Mariner Books, 2025) 33:36

5M ago33:36

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As Nazi tanks roll toward Leningrad in August 1941, an unmarried nineteen-year-old ballerina gives birth to twin girls in the soon-to-be besieged city. Bereft of hope, the dancer—once a rising star at the Kirov—slashes her wrists, but her babies survive, rescued by the devoted friend who arrives just too late to save their mother. The friend, too, …

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