Nonfiction
Femme Fatale: Love, Lies, and the Unknown Life of Mata Hari
Misperceptions about Mata Hari abound—many due to the persona that she herself promulgated with convenient lies. Though often thought to…
The Historical Epic And Contemporary Hollywood: From Dances With Wolves to Gladiator
This book, by a British film studies lecturer, tries to accomplish many things in its examination of the contemporary epic…
Uncommon Arrangements: Seven Portraits of Married Life in London Literary Circles, 1910-1939
Uncommon Arrangements describes the marriages of several famous writers as works in progress. These husbands and wives struggled valiantly with…
The Mother’s Story
The author is the mother of Irish singers Margo and Daniel O’Donnell, and this is her story of growing up…
The Perfect Summer: Dancing Into Shadow in 1911
“I have been born at the end of the age of peace and can’t expect to feel anything but despair,”…
Home Run: Escape From Nazi Europe
Throughout World War II a total of a quarter of a million Allied soldiers and airmen found themselves cut off,…
Loves Of Harriet Beecher Stowe
As every American schoolchild knows, or ought to know, Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin, the great anti-slavery novel.…
Dead Man In Paradise
This book is the winner of the 2006 Charles Taylor Prize, Canada’s award for the best literary non-fiction. It’s a…
Sandhills Boy
Rather than being an historical novel, this is a book by and about an historical novelist. Moreover, this memoir deals…
Confrontation At Lepanto: Christendom vs. Islam
Had Lepanto taken place on land instead of at sea, Hopkins argues, its name would be much more enduring in…
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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.
