Multi-Period
October Skies
In the spring of 1857, a starving man dressed in rags emerges from the forest surrounding a small American town.…
The Book of Love
Estranged both from the man she loves and her brother, Maureen Pascal requires their assistance to unravel Matilda of Tuscany’s…
The Pagan House
Thirteen-year-old Eddie Pagan (or Edgar as he prefers to be called) travels from London to New York State to visit…
The Mystery of the Fool and the Vanisher
This gorgeously designed book is a journal-within-a-journal, the story of a modern-day photographer who finds the papers and photographs of…
A Secret Alchemy
A Secret Alchemy is a book of three parts and three voices. First there is Una Pryor, brought up, after…
The Lost Quilter
More than one story must be repeatedly told so that we remember! In a northern American town, Sylvia Bergstrom discovers…
Serendipity
Serendipity is an intergenerational coming-of-age story set in the present day. The main heroine is Carrie Manning who has just…
The Fairfax Legacy
The story opens in 1921, with eight-year-old Elena Fairfax eavesdropping on a quarrel between her parents, Oscar and Hermione. “When…
Famous Suicides of the Japanese Empire
The murmur of Yeats forms the essence of this haunting novel: “Sacrifices might come in many different forms. Too long…
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
In World War II Seattle, Henry Lee, the son of Chinese immigrants, faces a changing world. On one side are…
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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.

























