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The Turncoat
The Turncoat is a strong debut set mostly in British-occupied Philadelphia during the Revolutionary years 1777 to 1780. Kate Grey,…
Call Me Zelda
Editors' choice
Psychiatric nurse Anna Howard is in awe of her newest patient at Phipps Psychiatric Clinic in Baltimore, Maryland. Zelda Fitzgerald,…
An Inquiry into Love and Death
Some years after World War I, Oxford student Jillian Leigh must leave her intensive studies and go to the seacoast…
The Mermaid Collector
The Mermaid Festival draws people from all directions to Cradle Harbor, Maine every August. They dash into the ocean and shop…
What Darkness Brings: A Sebastian St. Cyr Mystery
One simply cannot help but adore Lord Devlin, aka Sebastian St. Cyr: witty, intuitive, handsome, fearless – and a great…
Royal Romances
The goings-on of history’s royal families are of perennial interest to those not lucky enough to born a prince or…
Temple of a Thousand Faces
In 1177 in Angkor, Khmer (now Cambodia), Prince Jayavar and his chief wife, Ajadevi, stand on a causeway gazing at…
The Queen’s Confidante
London 1501. Henry VII is on the English throne and has united the two houses of York and Lancaster after…
The Spymaster’s Daughter
Editors' choice
Frances Walsingham (1567-1633), Countess of Essex, Countess of Clanricarde, and daughter of Elizabeth I’s renowned spymaster, Sir Francis Walsingham, becomes…
Hemingway’s Girl
Editors' choice
Ernest “Papa” Hemingway seems to hold perennial fascination for other writers, and this novel is woven around his time in…
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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.
