Short Stories
The First Murder
Here is the eighth compilation of interwoven historical mysteries by the changing cast of The Medieval Murderers. As per usual…
Istanbul was a Fairytale
First published in 1999 in Turkish, İstanbul Bir masaldı won Turkey’s prestigious Yunus Nadi Novel Award in 2000. The novel…
Sherlock Holmes at the Breakfast Table
Sherlock Holmes at the Breakfast Table is a new collection of the adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson. The…
Fallen in Love
This collection of four stories explores love’s many manifestations: unexpected, unrequited, forbidden and eternal. Each tale possesses its own twist…
The Odditorium
The title for The Odditorium fits this slim book of short stories nicely, as most of the tales are indeed…
Hill of Bones
This is an anthology of mystery novellas by the writing team of Susanna Gregory, Bernard Knight, Karen Maitland, Ian Morson,…
Apricot Jam
As one who can truthfully say she enjoyed (if that’s the right word) Nobel Prize-winner Solzhenitsyn’s soul shattering Cancer Ward…
Jane Austen Made Me Do It
Jane Austen continues her afterlife as the Scylla and Charybdis of women’s fiction, luring innocent writers ever closer until she…
Tales of the New World
In ten short stories, some as short as seven pages and others over seventy pages, Sabina Murray considers the motivations,…
The Life of Polycrates and Other Stories for Antiquated Children
Eleven tales are collected in The Life of Polycrates and other Stories for Antiquated Children, ranging in period from ancient…
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.
