Nonfiction
Jane Austen’s Guide to Good Manners: Compliments, Characters & Horrible Blunders
“Every society has its ‘Rules’ – and where these contribute to good order, and the well-being of all, it is…
Ambitious Brew: The Story of American Beer
This is the story of the rollicking world of the great American breweries and those that created them, from poor…
The Good Old Days: Crime, Murder and Mayhem in Victorian London
During the 19th century the East End of London was peopled by a demimonde of criminals. The divide between the…
Getting Away With Murder on the Texas Frontier: Notorious Killings & Celebrated Trials
Human life was cheap on the old frontier, unless one shot a horse. That’s only one of the conclusions to…
I Want to Live: The Diary of a Young Girl in Stalin’s Russia
What an extraordinary insight Nina gives us into the closed world of Stalinist Russia. Starting in 1932, when Nina was…
The White Cascade
In 1910, the Great Northern Railway crossed the Cascade Mountains in Washington State. Two trains loaded with passengers and mail…
Crowned in a Far Country
Eight young women sent from home to marry into royal houses: Obscure German princess to Empress of Russia, Catherine the…
Katey: The Life and Loves of Dickens’ Artist Daughter
Lucinda Hawksley, a direct descendant of Charles Dickens, demonstrates that family history can be of great interest to outsiders. Katherine…
Malory: The Life and Times of King Arthur’s Chronicler
Thomas Malory is almost as much of a legend as the subject of his unique, and uniquely influential, chronicle. His…
Memoirs of a Highland Lady
“On looking back I find little essential to regret and much, Oh so much, to be thankful for”. This is…
About our Reviews
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.
