Nonfiction
The Road to Bosworth Field
The Wars of the Roses always confused me. So many people, with so many variations of their names, all killing…
Kiyo’s Story: A Memoir
“Last year, my winning essay, ‘What America Means to Me,’ placed in our school’s finals. This year I am branded…
Writer’s Market UK & Ireland 2010
This market directory contains, as you would expect, a large number of listings of publishers, as well as many other…
Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London’s Jazz Age
For American readers, the phrase “lost generation” conjures up the names Hemingway and Fitzgerald and other arty types who spent…
American Eve: Evelyn Nesbit, Stanford White, the Birth of the “It” Girl and the Crime of the Century
Florence Evelyn Nesbit was born in the mid-1880s to a middle-class family, but her fortune took a turn upon the…
Daughters of Gaia: Women in the Ancient Mediterranean World
The study of women in antiquity has already seen a great deal of important scholarship. In this book, the author…
The Woman’s Historical Novel: British Women Writers, 1900-2000
Editors' choice
This timely, perceptive analysis gives a much-maligned genre its proper significance in the canon of English literature. Diana Wallace sets…
Why Socrates Died: Dispelling the Myths
Socrates was tried and put to death in 399 BCE by his fellow Athenians, events that have subsequently become iconic.…
Banquet at Delmonico’s: Great Minds, the Gilded Age, and the Triumph of Evolution in America
Banquet at Delmonico’s is a densely packed history of the rise of social Darwinism in the United States between 1871…
Bomb, Book & Compass: Joseph Needham and the Great Secrets of China
Many — from Napoleon onwards — can lay claim to forecasting the greatness of China, but few dedicated their lives…
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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.
