Biographical Fiction
Beyond All Price
To escape a life of poverty and degradation, 23-year-old Nellie Chase volunteers as a nurse with the 100th Pennsylvania Roundhead…
Across the Waters of Time: Pliny Remembered
The long and incredibly varied life of Pliny the Elder forms the subject of Parejko’s fantastic book, taking readers on…
Congo – Spirit of Darkness
Susan Dawson’s journal is read on her deathbed by a nurse. Susan was a journalist and an abolitionist, her story…
The Second Footman
Set against the glamorous background of nineteenth century France, and with the capriciousness of the Parisian elite opened up to…
The Witch and her Soul
Editors' choice
There have been many novels about the Lancashire witch trials of 1612 but for many modern readers the tragedy and…
Out of the Clouds of Deceit
In 1948, while training to fly bombers in the RAF, Aiden forms a friendship with another pilot, Dennis. Shortly before…
The Nine Day Queen
This is much more the story of all three Grey sisters – Lady Jane, Lady Katherine and Lady Mary –…
Creole Son
In 1872, Edgar Degas left Paris to visit New Orleans, the birthplace of his deceased mother and the current home…
Kipling & Trix
Mary Hamer’s Kipling and Trix elegantly walks the borders between fact and fiction in her retelling of Rudyard Kipling’s story…
A Conscious Englishman
Set in 1914 shortly after the declaration of war, this biographical novel covers the final years of journalist and poet…
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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.
