Saga
Haunting Bombay
Bombay, India, in the summer of 1960 is a city crowded with color, politics, and ritual; it’s hot and humid,…
The Carpenter’s Children
As a writer/reader I find sagas irritating. I want to delve more deeply into the main character’s personality and motives,…
The Invisible Mountain
The Invisible Mountain is Carolina De Robertis’s accomplished generational saga describing the fates of three women intertwined with those of…
Prayers for Sale
This charming novel follows the life of 86-year-old Hennie Comfort as revealed in the stories she spins for her newly…
Lily’s Journey
The story is set in 1952. After the death of her mother, 15-year-old Lily Hayes leaves London to live with…
Honolulu
Originally named “Regret” in Korea by her parents, who had prayed for a male baby twenty-five years earlier, Jin chooses…
The Town House / The House at Old Vine / The House at Sunset
This trilogy, spanning six centuries, is the story of a Suffolk house and the people who lived in it from…
Remember Me
A saga set in Edwardian Britain, this is the story of Maddy Moon, a 17-year-old singer with a touring company…
An Irish Country Doctor
More faction than fiction, for Doctor Taylor calls heavily on his own experiences as an Ulster country doctor, the characters…
Cutting for Stone
Born in 1954 to an Indian Carmelite nun and a promising British surgeon in an Ethiopian hospital, Marion Stone narrates…
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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.
