Nonfiction
Mozart at the Gateway to His Fortune, Serving the Emperor 1788-1791
Christoph Wolff is an eminent scholar, and in this nonfiction work offers new insights into the last four years of…
Shooting Victoria
Shooting Victoria is not just another biography of the illustrious queen or a history about the eponymous era she generated.…
The Criminal Conversation of Mrs Norton
Caroline, granddaughter of the playwright Sheridan, marries George Norton and finds him to be violent and unpredictable. She was already…
Ma, He Sold Me for a Few Cigarettes: A Memoir of Dublin in the 1950s
I’m sure Martha Long’s book was liberating for her to write, but it was tough for me to read. I…
The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo
The swashbuckling heroes in Alexandre Dumas’s The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo have stirred the imaginations of…
Beyond the Blue Horizon: How the Earliest Mariners Unlocked the Secrets of the Oceans
Brian Fagan is a marvel, not just in his encyclopedic knowledge of history, archaeology, and anthropology, but in the way…
Leonardo and the Last Supper
This time out, Ross King, novelist and bestselling author of biographical nonfiction focusing primarily on the Italian Renaissance (Brunelleschi’s Dome,…
Money and the Middle Ages
This is a scholarly, yet brief and readable, study of the development and use of money in the High Middle…
Into Dust and Fire
In the spring of 1941, before Pearl Harbor, before American committed itself to involvement in World War II, a cadre…
Voyagers of the Titanic: Passengers, Sailors, Shipbuilders, Aristocrats, and the Worlds They Came From
Davenport-Hines has written a half-dozen of masterful biographies and histories, many of them set around the time of the Titanic’s…
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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.
