Colonial America
Killer of Crying Deer
In 1669, an abducted youth is shipwrecked in the Florida Keys. Readers entering Henry’s world will encounter an unrelentingly detailed…
The Leaves of Fate
Between 1610 and 1630, the Jamestown settlement in the English colonies began to take shape – the colonists left the…
Cate of the Lost Colony
Editors' choice
When her father is killed fighting in the Netherlands, young Catherine Archer is left alone and penniless – until Queen…
The Shadow War
This novel is a modern day thriller with flashbacks to 1675 and 1968. A Colonial historian, Benjamin Wainwright, is summoned…
The Wolves of Andover
Editors' choice
Kathleen Kent’s debut book, The Heretic’s Daughter, was one of the most memorable novels I read last year. Kent’s second…
The Gentleman Poet: A Novel of Love, Danger, and Shakespeare’s The Tempest
After a violent storm separates their battered ship from a fleet carrying settlers and provisions to Jamestown Colony, the one…
Deceptions: A Jamestown Novel
Catherine Parke is the central character in Ms. Clay’s latest historical novel. Catherine does not intend to deceive anyone, but…
Cupids
In 1610 the Englishman John Guy established a colony at Cupers Cove, Newfoundland (now known as Cupids), at the behest…
Wicked Girls: A Novel of the Salem Witch Trials
Mercy Lewis is an orphan of the French and Indian War, beautiful but doomed to servitude in the Putnams’ Puritan…
Evangeline
Based on the poem of the same name by Longfellow, Evangeline tells the story of the Great Upheaval, the forcible…
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.
