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River of Dust
In northwestern China in 1910, the Reverend and his wife, Grace, both missionaries, are en route to a new summer…
The Lighthouse Road
The Lighthouse Road might best be described as a family saga, except that the families are constructed out of characters…
Captivity
Commitment to the living and the dead requires immense responsibility! The time is the mid-1800s, a time when women are…
Cranioklepty: Grave Robbing and the Search for Genius
In 1796 Dr. Franz Joseph Gall began lecturing in Vienna about his anatomical studies of the human skull that…
The Good Doctor Guillotin
The lives of five men converge in on one epochal event – the first use of the guillotine as a…
Madewell Brown
When Obie Poole, a retired Negro League baseball player from the ’20s, met Rachael Poole, he knew this orphan girl…
The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire
This sprawling tale isn’t so much about Agustin de Iturbide y Green, the grandson of the first Mexican Emperor, Agustin…
The Islands of Divine Music
Rosari Cara, the daughter of a peasant barber whose wife left him, is constantly poring over books and newspapers while…
Hallam’s War
The American Civil War looms and then bursts into flame during this debut novel. Initially set on the West Tennessee…
The Melancholy Fate of Capt. Lewis
This is a story about Meriwether Lewis, who embarked in 1804 on his famous expedition with William Clark. He died,…
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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.
