19th Century
Lord Thurston’s Challenge
When Charlotte Carstairs is orphaned, along with her young brother and sister, she takes them to live with her maternal…
A Reason To Believe
McKade delivers another excellent historical romance. In 1867, drifter and ex-soldier Rye Forrester had intended to unburden his conscience by…
A Most Dangerous Woman
Editors' choice
London, 1852. Mrs Sarah Tanner, a woman with a dubious past, opens her Dining and Coffee Rooms in Leather Lane.…
The Mapmaker’s Opera
Editors' choice
Praise for Béa Gonzalez’ The Mapmaker’s Opera abounds, with many critics and other reviewers comparing the author’s work to that…
God of Luck
God of Luck is a historical novel set against the backdrop of the trade in Chinese laborers, kidnapped and sold…
Days of Atonement
Days of Atonement is a follow-up to Critique of Criminal Reason, also by the husband and wife team who write…
Captain Wentworth’s Diary
Editors' choice
In 1806 the young Frederick Wentworth visits Somerset and meets the young Anne Elliot. It is a meeting of minds…
Love in the Time of Cholera
Florentino Ariza fell in love with Fermina Daza the first time he saw her when he delivered a telegram to…
The Prayer Chest
Joseph Hutchinson and his wife, Miriam, are poor farmers scraping out a living on Long Island during the late 1800s.…
Lessons of Desire
Phaedra Blair is the beautiful, eccentric heroine of this Regency romp. The illegitimate offspring of a woman whose philosophy espoused…
About our Reviews
Over the last 15 years The Historical Novels Review (the society’s print magazine for our members) has published reviews of some 12,000 historical fiction books. We plan to upload them all and make them searchable here.
