Puffin
Scarper Jack and the Bloodstained Room
London, 1860s. Eleven-year-old chimney sweep, Jack Tolchard, is inside the well-to-do Shorey family’s chimney. The walls are thin in places,…
Before Green Gables
In 1908 Lucy Maud Montgomery first published Anne of Green Gables, the story of the irrepressible redhead who brings…
Burn My Heart
This powerful novel brings to life the Kenya Emergency of the early 1950s, when a group of freedom fighters…
Smugglers
(1) England, South Coast, post 1815. Twelve-year-old Reuben Hibberd knows that a shipwreck means good pickings. But there is one…
Endymion Spring
(1) Endymion Spring, apprentice to the famous printer Gutenberg, has to flee for his life when he is entrusted with…
Tug of War
Tug of War is about twins, Astra and Hugo, during the Second World War, fleeing from their home in Latvia…
Green Jasper
(1) 1193. The Third Crusade is over, but King Richard I is missing. Is he dead? Captured? No one knows.…
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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.
