Multi-Period
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…
The School of Night
Discredited Elizabethan scholar Henry Cavendish is tasked by a ruthless antiquities collector to recover a missing letter which was stolen…
The Book of Crows
In ancient China of 2000 years ago, a young girl, Jade, is kidnapped and sold to the Whorehouse of…
The Watery Part of the World
Editors' choice
Although she is one of the best-educated and most brilliant women of her time, the history books are silent…
Before Ever After
Get ready for the unexpected when you pick up this offbeat, incredibly enjoyable novel, which will transport you on a…
My Wife’s Affair
Peter, a financial writer and failed novelist, takes his wife and three sons from New Jersey to modern-day London…
The Little Women Letters
As much as I wanted to enjoy and enthusiastically recommend this book (being a great lover of this American classic),…
The Bride’s House
The only way to get rich in a Colorado mining town in 1880 is to strike gold or marry a…
Childish Loves
A writer sits down to write poetry or a novel. The thoughts and emotions swirling through this process are actually…
The Sandalwood Tree
It’s 1947, and Americans Martin and Evie Mitchell and their five-year-old son are in India. Martin is one of the…
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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.
