Literary
Three Novels of Ancient Egypt: Khufu’s Wisdom, Rhadopis of Nubia, Thebes at War
Go figure. Just when you think you know the rules of historical fiction—pitfalls to avoid such as anachronisms, being moralistic,…
Measuring the World
On a prosaic level—and this novel is anything but prosaic—this is the story of two contrasting figures of the German…
The Master of Verona
How much of life is determined by the stars? How much by the choices of men? How far will a…
The Moonlit Cage
In 1846, eleven-year-old Darya is on the brink of womanhood. Her dearest companion, her Circassian grandmother, regales Darya with tales…
Companions of Paradise
Continuing the saga of A Singular Hostage and A Beggar at the Gate, Englishwoman Mariana Givens has been separated from…
The Shoe Queen
In Art Deco 1920s Paris when it was a second home to the Americans, the City of Lights was a…
The Earthquake Shack: A Sausalito Love Story
It’s 1959 in Sausalito, California—right across the water from San Francisco, but with a culture and personality all its own.…
A Tropical Place Like That
This book of short stories is set in the mountainous part of Michoacan in the 1960s. Lou (Luis) Becton, an…
The White Marriage
Sunny Chantry is on the verge of adulthood when she crosses paths with the handsome and glamorous socialite, Gray Wyndham.…
The Song Before It Is Sung
The steady flow of literary interest with Nazism and its impact upon history shows no sign of abating. This is,…
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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.
