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The Best of Sisters
Sagas, the comfy slippers of reading matter. Nothing demanding in style or content, but a good book for bedtime or…
The Thistle and the Rose
Plaidy’s eighth Tudor novel vividly reconstructs the dramatic life of Margaret Tudor, from the time of her early marriage to…
The Sixth Wife
Plaidy’s retelling of the story of Katharine Parr is masterly. Those who know little more of Katharine than that she…
Penhallow
When a crime novel begins with the immortal words “Jimmy the Bastard was cleaning boots …” then the reader can…
Footsteps in the Dark
Brother and sisters, Peter, Margaret and Celia, inherit The Priory, a rambling ancient house, from their uncle. Celia and her…
Why Shoot a Butler?
When barrister Frank Amberley, who happens to dabble in amateur detection, comes upon a dead body in an abandoned car,…
The Unfinished Clue
The scene is 1933: a weekend country house party at The Grange, courtesy of General Sir Arthur Billington-Smith and his…
A Death in Vienna
In Sigmund Freud’s Vienna, Dr. Max Lieberman, a Freudian acolyte, specializes in psychosomatic illnesses classified as “hysteria,” usually treated…
The Last Duel
A fascinating insight into the medieval mindset, a world in which people believed that the question of who had…
Uneasy Lies The Head
1486. The Wars of the Roses are over. The Lancastrian King Henry VII has married the Yorkist princess Elizabeth and…
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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.
