2013
The Water Doctor’s Daughters
This is true crime and also a Victorian melodrama which outdoes any fictional Victorian melodrama I have ever read. It…
The Trunk Murderess: Winnie Ruth Judd
On October 18, 1931, Winnie Ruth Judd, a 26-year old medical secretary, boarded a train from Phoenix to Los Angeles…
Call Nurse Millie
This novel, set in 1945, tells the story of Amelia (Millie) Sullivan, a Sister employed by St. George’s and St.…
Queenie
It’s 1953, Coronation year. Elsie Kettle lives with her Nan – her unreliable mother is a chorus girl and rarely…
Walking into the Wild
After having their home raided by Tories and Indians, the Foot children and their mother retreat south to live with…
Music of a Life
In this densely written novella, Russian author Andrei Makine evokes the grim, gray, repressive atmosphere of Soviet Russia from the…
Aprons and Silver Spoons
At fourteen years old Mollie is told that she must find a job. Without any skills, she takes a job…
The House Girl
Editors' choice
Art, slavery and the nature of freedom are the themes of Tara Conklin’s haunting and powerful novel. Lina Sparrow is…
A Spear of Summer Grass
Delilah Drummond is scandalous, even by 1920s standards. Her latest problem—the suicide of her ex-husband—is too much for her family…
The Sweetest Dark
Lora Jones has always heard music that isn’t there and voices that don’t exist. She remembers nothing of her earliest…
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.
