Nonfiction
Orwell Diaries
This collection of eleven of Orwell’s diaries, from 1931 to 1949, is a treasure, both for the historical and literary…
The Myth of Bloody Mary
This fascinating biography of Mary Tudor cuts through centuries of assumption, legend, and demonization to reveal a more even-handed portrait…
The Lady in Red
When well-bred heiress Seymour Fleming married the urbane Isle of Wight landowner and politician Sir Richard Worsley, it seemed no…
Love in an Envelope: A Courtship in the American West
This collection of letters, between Leroy Carpenter, of Greeley, Colorado, and Martha Bennett, of DeWitt, Iowa, covers from January 1871…
The Enemy at the Gate: Habsburgs, Ottomans, and the Battle for Europe
In The Enemy at the Gate, Andrew Wheatcroft sets out the political background to the 1683 siege of Vienna in…
The Inheritance of Rome
A distinguished professor of medieval history at Oxford and author of the award-winning Framing the Middle Ages, Chris Wickham presents…
Hunting Eichmann
This is a fascinating account of the capture of Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires by Israeli agents, an event…
The Lady Queen: The Notorious Reign of Joanna l, Queen of Naples, Jerusalem, and Sicily
During the 14th century, Italy consisted of a collection of independent cities, the papal states, and the kingdom of…
From Dachau to D-Day
In a twist of fate, German Jew Willy Hirschfield’s father transferred his family to Bonn from Graudenz fearing the…
The Journal of Hélène Berr
Hélène Berr was born into a prosperous Franco-Jewish family in Paris in 1921. At the time of the Nazi occupation,…
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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.
