Chatto & Windus
Ask Alice
From the windswept prairies of Kansas to downtown Chicago, and from rural Norfolk to the rarefied atmosphere of Chelsea and…
Cutting for Stone
Born in 1954 to an Indian Carmelite nun and a promising British surgeon in an Ethiopian hospital, Marion Stone narrates…
Darwin: A Life in Poems
As part of the two anniversary events in 2009—two hundred years since the birth of Charles Darwin and 150 years…
A Mercy
In the late 17th century, slavery was in its infancy, as was the sugarcane industry. Morrison’s prose is confident…
The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein
Peter Ackroyd’s fiction has a strong historical rooting, particularly in novels like Hawksmoor and Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem,…
The Peachgrowers’ Almanac
This debut novel is set in India and England in 1857. It is narrated in turns by twin sisters, Lilian…
Lady Worsley’s Whim: An 18th-Century Tale of Sex, Scandal, and Divorce
In the latter part of the 18th century, British society was enthralled and scandalised by the long-running and very public…
The Outcast
Editors' choice
Set in a middle-class commuter town in southern England in the late 1940s and 1950s, this is a highly…
Christ the Lord:The Road to Cana
The saga of Anne Rice—from lush pseudonymic S&M erotica, through vampires and witches given flesh-and-blood reality we common mortals never…
The View from Castle Rock
In this collection of stories, Alice Munro picks through her family tree – as far back as 18th century Scotland…
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.
