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Australia has produced a number of award-winning and best-selling writers of historical fiction, including Anna Campbell, Anne Gracie, Anna Jacobs, Stephanie Laurens and Isolde Martyn.While some historical fiction is meticulously researched and takes years to write, the authors don’t often appear on lists for literary awards.

An exception is Kate Morton, whose fourth book, The Secret Keeper, will be released later
this year. Kate’s books have not only been best sellers, they have also
repeatedly won Australian Book Industry awards. The Forgotten Garden was also longlisted for The
International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award in 2010.

In the following tally of 2012 releases reviewed between January and June for the challenge, a number of subgenres have been included among the historical fiction titles, including crime, fantasy, speculative fiction and and romance. Have any Young Adult historical fiction titles been missed?

Which of the following, if any, deserve to be included among the tally of “literary” books?

Tally: 17 titles, 22 reviewers, 32 reviews

• Brooke, Christina – Mad About The Earl. (Macmillan/St Martin’s Press) Romance
  Kate Cuthbert
• Burrows, Deborah – A Stranger in My Street. (Panmacmillan) Intrigue
  @Book’d Out, Stephanie @RIASS, Jayne @austbookshelf
• Calder, Charlotte – The Ghost at the Point. (Walker Books) YA Hist/Myst
  Stephanie @ RIASS
• Forsyth, Kate – Bitter Greens. (Random House) Speculative Fiction
  Angela @ LiteraryMinded, Book’d Out, Bookonaut, Bree @1girl2manybooks, Monique at Write Note Reviews, speculatef, Jo @ BookloverBookReviews
• Freeman, Kimberly – Wildflower Hill. (Allen & Unwin) Romance
  Denise
• Gentill, Sulari – Miles off Course. (Pantera Press) Crime
  Bernadette, Caroline Sully, Jacquie Underdown
• Gracie, Anne – Bride by Mistake. (Penguin/Berkley) Romance
  Kate Cuthbert
• Hartnett, Sonya – The Children of the King. (Penguin) Children’s
  EmmaPerry@MyBkCorner
• Jacobs, Anna – Elm Tree Road. (Alison & Busby)
  Coleen Kwan
• Leith, Denise – What Remains. (Allen & Unwin)
  Kevin Rennie, Monique @ Write Note
• Morton, Kate – The Forgotten Garden. (Allen & Unwin) Mystery
  Nicole @ The Readers’ Haven, Lucy Perkins
• Nunn, Judy – Tiger Men. (Random House)
  Marie @ The Readers’ Haven
• Patricio, Anna – Asenath. (Imagin Books) Romance (debut)
  Michelle Dennis Evans, Jayne @Austbookshelf
• Paynter, Jayne – Mary Bennet. (Penguin/Viking) Jane Austen spinoff
  @ Book’d Out, Bree @1girl2manybooks
• Resce, Mer H – Cora Villa. (Golden Grain Publishing) Romance
  Michelle Dennis Evans Romance
• Whitehead, Ann – Waratah House. (Penguin/Michael Joseph)
  Bree @1girl2manybooks
• Young, Felicity – A Dissection of Murder. (HarperCollins 2012) Crime Tseen Khoo, Shelleyrae @ Book’d Out

Titles missed from above tally:

• The Light Between Oceans by M L Steadman (Random House 2012)
• The Lavender keeper by Fiona McIntosh (Penguin 2012)

Upcoming releases:

• Gather the Bones by Alison Stuart. (Lyrical Press 2012)