Multi-Period
A Winding Road
The circumstances surrounding a masterpiece’s creation – witness Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring – is fertile ground for fiction…
The Hidden Oasis
The Hidden Oasis brings together a group of priests who hide a mysterious object in the desert in the year…
The Dangerous Book of Heroes
This book is prefaced by an Australian Aboriginal saying: People who lose their history, lose their soul. What the Igguldens…
Aristocrats: Power, Grace and Decadence – Britain’s Great Ruling Classes from 1066 to the Present
This is a wide-ranging survey of the influence of the aristocracy, from 1066 to the present, on politics, the constitution,…
The Contemporary British Historical Novel: Representation, Nation, Empire
This ‘first full-length study of a genre that has had increasing critical attention and popular appeal at the turn…
The Puzzle Ring
The Puzzle Ring is a fantasy adventure with an almost Blytonesque feel. It involves a curse, a prophecy, a puzzle…
The House of Special Purpose
When Georgy Jachmenev inadvertently stops a bullet meant for the Tsar’s uncle, his life is changed forever. It is 1916…
Shanghai Girls
Editors' choice
Pearl and May are two sisters born in Shanghai, China, in the early 20th century. Raised in luxury with traditional…
The Summer House
Lady Helen Barstairs marries her soldier husband at her family’s request and regrets it almost instantly when she meets Oliver…
Blood & Ice
Photo-journalist Michael Wilde, tormented by guilt and grief, takes on an assignment in the Antarctic, a chance to abandon the…
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.
