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Historical Novels Review - Table of Contents
May 2008

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Editorial, Bethany Latham
Historical Fiction Market News, Sarah Johnson
When Music Is the Muse: Susanne Dunlap talks to five authors bringing music to life in their fiction
History and Film: Catherine Delors on The Red Violin
Cliche, Consolation, & Expectation: Venice in historical fiction, by Lucinda Byatt
Captivated by Egypt: C.W. Gortner interviews Pauline Gedge
Accidental Pioneers: Profiles of Reay Tannahill and George MacDonald Fraser, by Sally Zigmond
Romantic Cornwall: Felicity Barnaby talks to Jane Jackson
Top 10 Worst-Selling Tudor Novels, Susan Higginbotham

Books Reviewed:
(Hyperlinks indicate Editors' Choice novels for this issue)

  • Adler, Warren - Funny Boys

  • Akunin, Boris - The State Counsellor

  • Alexander, Robert - The Romanov Bride

  • Alexander, Tasha - A Fatal Waltz

  • Anam, Tahmima - A Golden Age

  • Anderson, James - The Affair of the Mutilated Mink

  • Armstrong, Alan - Raleigh's Page

  • Arruda, Suzanne - The Serpent's Daughter

  • Arslan, Antonia - Skylark Farm

  • Ash, Maureen - Death of a Squire

  • Aston, Elizabeth - The Darcy Connection

  • Atkins, Ace - Wicked City

  • Austen, Jane, and Joan Aiken - The Watsons and Emma Watson

  • Balogh, Mary - Simply Perfect

  • Barone, Sam - Empire Rising

  • Barratt, Mark - Joe Rat

  • Bateman, Tracey - Distant Hearts

  • Bell, Ted - Nick of Time: An Adventure Through Time

  • Bellis, Naomi - Theft of Shadows

  • Bennett, Vanora - Figures in Silk

  • Beverley, Jo - Lovers and Ladies

  • Billington, Rachel - Emma & Knightley

  • Blair, Emma - Arrows of Desire

  • Blake, Richard - Conspiracies of Rome

  • Booth, Faye L. - Cover the Mirrors

  • Bowner, Martyn - The Queen's Knight

  • Boyne, John - Mutiny on the Bounty

  • Brightwell, Gerri - The Dark Lantern

  • Buckley-Archer, Linda - The Time Thief

  • Burch, Druin - Digging Up the Dead

  • Carie, Jamie - The Duchess and the Dragon

  • Carrella, Vincent - Serpent Box

  • Casey, Donis - The Drop Edge of Yonder

  • Chabon, Michael - Gentlemen of the Road

  • Chance, Megan - The Spiritualist

  • Chase, Allison - Dark Obsession

  • Clark, Cassandra - Hangman Blind

  • Cliff, Ann - Yorkshire Rose

  • Cline, Edward, and Jena Trammell - The Sparrowhawk Companion

  • Coleman, Evelyn - Freedom Train

  • Collins, Rebecca Ann - Women of Pemberley

  • Collins, Rebecca Ann - The Pemberley Chronicles

  • Cook, Jacquelyn - Sunrise

  • Cooney, Ellen - Lambrusco

  • Cornwell, Bernard - Sword Song

  • Cox, Carol - A Bride So Fair

  • Delta, Penelope - In the Heroic Age of Basil II: Emperor of Byzantium

  • di Robilant, Andrea - Lucia: A Venetian Life in the Age of Napoleon

  • Dickinson, David - Death on the Holy Mountain

  • Dietrich, William - The Rosetta Key

  • Doherty, Paul - The Templar

  • Donachie, David - An Awkward Commissioon

  • Donachie, David - A Flag of Truce

  • Downie, Ruth - Terra Incognita / Ruso and the Demented Doctor

  • Dowswell, Paul - Battle Fleet: Trafalgar - 1805

  • Doyle, Marissa - Bewitching Season

  • Dragoman, Gyorgy - The White King

  • D'Souza, Tony - The Konkans

  • du Boucheron, Bernard - The Voyage of the Short Serpent

  • Duble, Kathleen Benner - The Quest

  • Dunmore, Helen - Counting the Stars

  • Dunn, Suzannah - The Sixth Wife

  • Eidson, Thomas - Souls of Angels

  • Emerson, Kathy Lynn - How to Write Killer Historical Mysteries

  • Etzioni-Halevy, Eva - The Triumph of Deborah

  • Ewen, Pamela Binnings - The Moon in the Mango Tree

  • Falcones, Ildefonso - The Cathedral of the Sea

  • Farnham, Dawn - The Red Thread

  • Faust, Drew Gilpin - This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War

  • Feldman, Ellen - Scottsboro

  • Ferry, John - After Omdurman

  • Flynn, Katie - Sunshine and Shadows

  • Frazer, Margaret - The Apostate's Tale

  • Friday, Karl - The First Samurai: The Life and Legend of the Warrior Rebel, Taira Masakado

  • Friesner, Esther - Nobody's Prize

  • Friesner, Esther - Nobody's Princess

  • Furnivall, Kate - The Russian Concubine

  • Galbraith, Douglas - King Henry

  • Galland, Nicole - Crossed: A Tale of the Fourth Crusade

  • Gardner, Laurence - The Grail Enigma

  • Gear, W. Michael and Kathleen O'Neal Gear - People of the Weeping Eye

  • Gedge, Pauline - The Twice Born

  • Gibbins, David - The Last Gospel

  • Goldstone, Lawrence - The Anatomy of Deception

  • Graham, Jo - Black Ships

  • Graham, Laurie - The Importance of Being Kennedy

  • Grange, Amanda - Edmund Bertram's Diary

  • Greenwood, Kerry - Raisins and Almonds

  • Greer, Andrew Sean - The Story of a Marriage

  • Groff, Lauren - The Monsters of Templeton

  • Gulland, Sandra - Mistress of the Sun

  • Gunning, Sally - Bound

  • Haeger, Diane - The Secret Bride

  • Haggith, Mandy - The Last Bear

  • Hall, Brian - Fall of Frost

  • Halter, Marek - The Messiah

  • Halter, Marek - Mary of Nazareth

  • Hammond, Melinda - A Rational Romance

  • Hansen, Ron - Exiles

  • Harper, Tom - Siege of Heaven

  • Harrison, Cora - Michaelmas Tribute / A Secret and Unlawful Killing

  • Haugen, Peter - Was Napoleon Poisoned? and Other Unsolved Mysteries of Royal History

  • Hawkins, Alis - Testament

  • Hearn, Julie - Hazel

  • Heath, Sandra - The Second Lady Southvale

  • Hemon, Aleksandar - The Lazarus Project

  • Hemphill, Stephanie - Your Own, Sylvia

  • Herendeen, Ann - Phyllida and the Brotherhood of Philander

  • Hershon, Joanna - The German Bride

  • Hodgson, Ken - The Man Who Killed Shakespeare

  • Holland, Cecelia - Varanger

  • Hood, Evelyn - Birds in the Spring

  • Hooper, Mary - In the House of the Magician

  • Horwitz, Tony - A Voyage Long and Strange

  • Hostetter, Joyce Moyer - Healing Water

  • Hunt, Samantha - The Invention of Everything Else

  • Iggulden, Conn - Genghis: Lords of the Bow

  • Irwin, Margaret - Elizabeth and the Prince of Spain

  • Irwin, Margaret - The Galliard

  • James, Margaret - The Penny Bangle

  • Jeffries, Sabrina - Let Sleeping Rogues Lie

  • Jenoff, Pam - The Diplomat's Wife

  • Johnson, Jane - The Tenth Gift / Crossed Bones

  • Johnson, Steven - The Ghost Map

  • Jones, Nerys - Godiva

  • Jones, Sadie - The Outcast

  • Kaine, Margaret - Roses for Rebecca

  • Kelton, Elmer - The Rebels: Sons of Texas

  • Kelton, Elmer - Hard Trail to Follow

  • Keneally, Thomas - A Commonwealth of Thieves

  • Kennedy, A.L. - Day

  • Kieser, Kenneth L. - Ride the Trail of Death

  • King, Catherine - Women of Iron

  • King, Catherine - Silk and Steel

  • Kirkpatrick, Jane - A Mending at the Edge

  • Kloester, Jennifer - Georgette Heyer's Regency World

  • Koen, Karleen - Now Face to Face

  • Kuhlken, Ken - The Angel Gang

  • Laker, Rosalind - The Venetian Mask

  • Lawrence, Caroline - The Beggar of Volubilis

  • Lawrence, Iain - The Castaways

  • Le Guin, Ursula K. - Lavinia

  • Learner, Tobsha - Soul 

  • Lee, Carol Ann - The Winter of the World

  • Lee, Jen Sookfong - The End of East

  • L'Engle, Madeleine - The Joys of Love

  • Lerner, Eric - Pinkerton's Secret

  • Levitt, Paul M. - Come with Me to Babylon

  • Lippincott, Robin - In the Meantime

  • Longley, Sean - The Hartlepool Monkey

  • Ludlow, Jack - The Sword of Revenge

  • Lugovskaya, Nina - I Want to Live

  • MacDougall, Sophia - Rome Burning

  • MacLaren, Sharlene - Courting Emma

  • MacQuigg, Donna - Honorable Intentions

  • MacTavish, Dawn - The Privateer

  • Maitland, Karen - Company of Liars

  • Man, John - The Great Wall

  • Markovits, Benjamin - A Quiet Adjustment

  • Marston, Edward - The Painted Lady

  • Marston, Edward - Soldier of Fortune

  • McKade, Maureen - A Reason to Sin

  • McKenna, Christina - The Misremembered Man

  • McKinley, Tamara - A Kingdom for the Brave

  • Meade, Amy Patricia - Shadow Waltz

  • Melikan, Rose - The Blackstone Key

  • Meyer, Kai - The Glass Word

  • Morris, R. N. - A Vengeful Longing

  • Morton, Kate - The House at Riverton

  • Mosse, Kate - Sepulchre

  • Moules, Joan M. - It's One of Ours

  • Naidoo, Beverley - Burn My Heart

  • Nash, Joy - Deep Magic

  • Newark, Elizabeth - The Darcys Give a Ball

  • Noble, Kate - Compromised

  • Novik, Mary - Conceit

  • Nowak, Pamela - Chances

  • Odrach, Theodore - Wave of Terror

  • Paine, Lauran - The Quiet Gun: A Western Duo

  • Parini, Jay - The Last Station

  • Pastor, Ben - The Fire Waker

  • Peters, Maureen - Sun of Silver, Moon of Gold

  • Peterson, Tracie, and Judith Miller - A Daughter's Inheritance

  • Peyton, K. M. - Blue Skies and Gunfire

  • Picardie, Justine - Daphne

  • Plaidy, Jean - The Merry Monarch's Wife

  • Poster, Jem - Courting Shadows

  • Pressfield, Steven - Killing Rommel

  • Pulman, Felicity - Rosemary for Remembrance / Rue for Repentance

  • Quick, Amanda - The Third Circle

  • Rathbone, Julian - The Mutiny

  • Rice, Anne - Christ the Lord: Road to Cana

  • Richman, Jana - The Last Cowgirl

  • Riley, Judith Merkle - The Serpent Garden

  • Rinaldi, Ann - The Redheaded Princess

  • Robb, Candace - A Vigil of Spies

  • Romano-Lax, Andromeda - The Spanish Bow

  • Rosen, Elisabeth Payne - Hallam's War

  • Rowland, Laura Joh - The Secret Adventures of Charlotte Bronte

  • Rowse, Sharon - The Silk Train Murder

  • Roy, Anuradha - An Atlas of Impossible Longing

  • Rudolph, Penny - Listen to the Mockingbird

  • Russell, Mary Doria - Dreamers of the Day

  • Russell, Norman - The Aquila Project

  • Schleisier, Karl H. - Trail of the Red Butterfly

  • Shamp, Dawn - On Account of Conspicuous Women

  • Shanower, Eric - Age of Bronze, Betrayal: Part One

  • Siepmann, Deborah - Starlight over Simla

  • Siljak, Ana - Angel of Vengeance

  • Smith, Joan - Valerie

  • Soliman,  Wendy - The Carstairs Conspiracy

  • Staples, Mary Jane - A Wartime Marriage

  • Strauss, Barry - The Trojan War: A New History

  • Sulzer, Alain Claude - A Perfect Waiter

  • Taylor, Andrew - Bleeding Heart Square

  • Taylor, Nick - The Disagreement

  • Thomas, Sherry - Private Arrangements

  • Tipton, James - Annette Vallon

  • Todd, Jack - Sun Going Down

  • Upson, Nicola - An Expert in Murder

  • Vernon, Roland - A Dark Enchantment

  • Vincent, E. Duke - Black Widow

  • Vyleta, Dan - Pavel & I

  • Walker, Robert - City of the Absent

  • Walters, Jennie - Shelter from the Storm

  • Wander, Fred - The Seventh Well

  • Watson, Jules - Song of the North

  • Weir, Alison - The Lady Elizabeth

  • Wheeler, Richard S. - Virgin River

  • White, Jenny - The Abyssinian Proof

  • Whitfield, Russell - Gladiatrix

  • Whitting, Glenice - Pickle to Pie

  • Wilson, Budge - Before Green Gables

  • Wilson, Laura - Stratton's War

  • Wilson, Sandra - The Absent Wife

  • Wiltshire, David - The Tears of Autumn

  • Young, Sara - My Enemy's Cradle

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