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The Companion
London, 1864: Elizabeth Martin, the daughter of a charitable thus penurious country doctor, takes a post as paid companion to…
The Truth About Lou: A (Necessary) Fiction
In late 19th-century Germany, the passionate Louise “Lou” Salomé, writer, seeker, and friend to Nietzsche, Freud and Prague poet Rilke…
Jane and the Barque of Frailty
Miss Jane Austen has left cozy Chawton for a month in London overseeing the printing of her first novel, Sense…
City of Glory: A Novel of War and Desire in Old Manhattan
The War of 1812 serves as backdrop to this intense saga of early New York and the woodlands of Manhattan.…
A Scented Palace: The Secret History Of Marie-Antoinette’s Perfumer
Jean-Louis Fargeon, son of a perfumer in the scent-rich town of Montpellier, France, apprenticed well and took his trade to…
The Last Van Gogh
In 1890, during the last two months of his life, Vincent van Gogh was in the care of Dr. Gachet,…
Gunpowder Plot
It’s Guy Fawkes Night, 1924, and Daisy Fletcher, née Dalrymple, is invited to celebrate at friend Gwen’s family estate in…
The Face In The Cemetery
In 1914 Egypt, the Mamur Zapt – equivalent of the head of the Political Branch of England’s C.I.D – was…
Tomb of the Golden Bird
It is 1922 in Egypt, and all is quiet in the Valley of the Kings. Archaeologist Howard Carter considered…
A Death in Vienna
In Sigmund Freud’s Vienna, Dr. Max Lieberman, a Freudian acolyte, specializes in psychosomatic illnesses classified as “hysteria,” usually treated…
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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.
