Saga
The Broken Land
In this third of four books set in 1400 CE among “The People of the Longhouse” (who most of us…
Up from These Hills: Memories of a Cherokee Boyhood
Up From These Hills is a memoir of the life of Leonard Carson Lambert Jr., a Cherokee Indian who lived…
Cossack
Cossack is part one in a forthcoming trilogy about the plight of the Cossack people, set around WWII. It is…
In Borrowed Light
Sister authors Barbara and Stephanie Keating, who grew up in Kenya, offer great escapism with In Borrowed Light, which transports…
Call of a Distant Shore
Due to increasing unrest and violence in his birthplace of Hochdorf, Germany, in the 1750s, Michael Heber impulsively decides to…
Washed in the Blood
Washed in the Blood is a saga spanning three centuries of the (as one character terms it) “racially ambiguous” descendants…
Catching the Tide
This is certainly ‘a good read’ at almost 600 pages. I found it quite a challenge, as there is no…
Sarah Thornhill
Sarah Thornhill is the sequel to Kate Grenville’s award-winning novel, The Secret River, which was set during the early years…
Autumn Bends the Rebel Tree
Carolyn Guy’s debut novel, Autumn Bends the Rebel Tree, tells the story of Clarinda McCloud, a strong Appalachian woman who…
Daughters of War (Leonora Trilogy)
Leonora Malham Brown is a fashionable young woman living with her grandmother in upscale London. She is bored, as probably…
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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.
