The Jane Healey Happy Hour

New York Times bestselling author Alka Joshi joins Jane Healey to talk about her new novel, The Perfumist of Paris . Paris, 1974. Radha is now living in Paris with her husband, Pierre, and their two daughters. She still grieves for the baby boy she gave up years ago, when she was only a child herself, but she loves being a mother to her daughters, and she’s finally found her passion—the treasure t...

New York Times bestselling author Kristina McMorris joins Jane Healey to discuss her new novel, The Ways We Hide , a sweeping World War II tale of an illusionist whose recruitment by British intelligence sets her on a perilous, heartrending path.

Paulette Kennedy joins Jane Healey to discuss her new novel, The Witch of Tin Mountain , a witchy southern gothic set in rural Northern Arkansas during the Great Depression from Lake Union Publishing.

Jane Healey welcomes Lynda Cohen Loigman , the bestselling author of The Two-Family Hous e and The Wartime Sisters , to talk about her new novel, The Matchmaker's Gift . It's a heartwarming story of two extraordinary women from two different eras who defy expectations to utilize their unique gift of seeing soulmates in the most unexpected places.

Bestselling author Rhys Bowen is Jane Healey's latest guest to discuss her new novel, Where the Sky Begins .  A woman’s future is determined by fate and choice in a gripping WWII novel about danger, triumph, and second chances by the New York Times bestselling author of The Venice Sketchbook and The Tuscan Child. London, 1940. Bombs fall and Josie Banks’s world crumbles around her. Her overbe...

This book pick for Historical Happy Hour is perfect for Halloween! Please join Jane Healey and the fabulous author Kris Waldherr as we celebrate the launch of her latest novel Unnatural Creatures: A Novel of the Frankenstein Women . Some tales aren't what you think. For the first time, the untold story of the three women closest to Victor Frankenstein is revealed in a dark and sweeping reimag...

Jane Healey discusses The Thread Collectors by Alyson Richman and Shaunna Edwards. 1863: In a small Creole cottage in New Orleans, an ingenious young Black woman named Stella embroiders intricate maps on repurposed cloth to help enslaved men flee and join the Union Army. Bound to a man who would kill her if he knew of her clandestine activities, Stella has to hide not only her efforts but her love...

Three Fabulous Authors: Piper Huguley, Libbie Grant and Aimie K. Runyan. Jane Healey welcomes them together to celebrate the launch of Piper Huguley’s novel, By Her Own Design . It's the incredible untold story of how Ann Lowe, a Black woman and granddaughter of slaves, rose above personal struggles and racial prejudice to design and create one of America's most famous wedding dresses of...

Heather Webb is the USA Today bestselling and award-winning author of historical fiction. In 2015, Rodin’s Lover was a Goodread’s Top Pick, and in 2018, Last Christmas in Paris won the Women’s Fiction Writers Association STAR Award. In 2019, Meet Me in Monaco was selected as a finalist for the 2020 Goldsboro RNA award in the UK, as well as the Digital Book World’s Fiction prize. To date, Heather’s...

Jane Healey welcomes the fabulous Elise Hooper to discuss her latest novel Angels of the Pacific .  Inspired by the extraordinary true stories of World War II’s American Army nurses famously known as the Angels of Bataan and the unsung contributions of Filipinas of the resistance, this novel transports us to a remarkable era of hope, bravery, perseverance, and ultimately—victory.

Diana Giovinazzo is the latest guest of Jane Healey to discuss her latest novel, Antoinette’s Sister . As Marie Antoinette took her last breath as Queen of France in Paris, another formidable monarch—Antoinette’s dearly beloved sister, Charlotte—was hundreds of miles away, in Naples, fighting desperately to secure her release from the revolutionaries who would take her life. Little did Charlotte k...

Jane Healey welcomes Jillian Cantor to the podcast to discuss Beautiful Little Fools . Their stories unfold in the years leading up to that fateful summer of 1922, when all three of their lives are on the brink of unraveling. Each woman is pulled deeper into Jay Gatsby’s romantic obsession, with devastating consequences for all of them. Jillian Cantor revisits the glittering Jazz Age world of F. S...

The Last Season is a collaboration between Jenny Judson and Danielle Mahfood, who met in high school and shared a mutual love of historical fiction and romance novels. Instead of passing notes in class, Jenny and Danielle would write short excerpts from imaginary novels that featured themselves and their classmates as characters caught up in tales of romance and adventure. Many years later, after...

Nicola Harrison joins Jane Healey to discuss her novel, The Show Girl . The novel gives a glimpse of the glamorous world of the Ziegfeld Follies through the eyes of a young midwestern woman who comes to New York City to find her destiny as a Ziegfeld Follies star. Nicola Harrison is the author of two historical fiction novels, Montauk and The Show Girl (August 10, 2021). Born and raised in England...

Ron Balson joins the podpodcast hosted by Jane Healey . We will be discussing his  novel, Defending Britta Stein , a fascinating story of bravery, betrayal and redemption. 

Bestselling author Mark Sullivan joins Jane Healey to discuss his novel, The Last Green Valley , the epic WWII story of one family’s decision to escape tyranny and run to freedom.

Elyssa Friedland joins Jane Healey to discuss  her novel, Last Summer at the Golden Hotel . We’ll go back in time to discuss the hotter-than hot vacation destination in the 50s, why it was known as the Borscht Belt, and its depiction in Dirty Dancing. 

Jane Healey welcomes Amy Mason Doan to Historical Happy Hour to discuss her new novel, Lady Sunshine .

New York Times bestselling author Soraya Lane join Jane Healey to discuss her  novel, The Secrets We Left Behind .

New York Times bestselling author Pam Jenoff joins Jane Healey to discuss her  novel, The Woman with the Blue Star .

New York Times bestselling author Lauren Willig joins Jane Healey to discuss her  novel, Band of Sisters .

Jane Healey welcomes MJ Rose to discuss her novel, The Last Tiara ,  a provocative and moving story of a young female architect in the 1940s who begins a journey to discovering her mother’s life during the fall of the Romanovs.