Literary
The Headmaster’s Wager
Percival Chen is the Chinese headmaster of an English-language school in Cholon, Vietnam, in the 1960s; he has run the…
The Bathing Women
Four women come of age amid Mao’s Cultural Revolution in a small village near Beijing. Taio is a children’s book…
Confederado: A Novel of the Americas
After the American Civil War, thousands of Southerners migrated to South America seeking a new life. In fact, the Immigration…
The Sadness of the Samurai
Editors' choice
From time to time a book comes along that is staggeringly good, one that illuminates and informs readers on multiple…
The Dream of the Celt
The opening chapter presents Roger Casement under a sentence of death for treason because of his efforts to recruit Irish…
Kaltenburg
There are some people who dominate the lives of others. Ludwig Kaltenburg is such a person. His tale is narrated…
Istanbul was a Fairytale
First published in 1999 in Turkish, İstanbul Bir masaldı won Turkey’s prestigious Yunus Nadi Novel Award in 2000. The novel…
The Thing About Thugs
Sometimes it takes too long for a truly unique and memorable novel to travel from one side of the world…
The Age of Desire
Editors' choice
It’s the winter of 1907. Edith Wharton, already famous for her fiction, attends Comtesse Rosa’s glamorous Paris salon, as she…
The Twelve Rooms of the Nile
Editors' choice
Who could have imagined that Florence Nightingale and Gustave Flaubert would be so good together? Apparently, Enid Shomer did just…
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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.
