HNR Issue 12 (May 2000)
The Words of Bernfrieda: A Chronicle of Hauteville
“The past is interesting only when it foreshadows greatness,” explains the monk Gaufredus Malaterra to this novel’s narrator, Bernfrieda, who…
Awen: A Novel of Early Medieval Wales
May 4th, 793 AD. Cynfarch mab Cadeyrn Penllyn, called Brys, appears for trial in the court of his foster father,…
Memoirs of Pontius Pilate
Mills mixes the Roman historical genre with the early Christian form. The blurb stated that Mills started with what he…
Lord of Emperors (The Sarantine Mosaic, Book 2)
In this sequel to Sailing to Sarantium (Harper, 1999), Kay demonstrates yet again his mastery of the historical (fantasy) novel.…
Guardian of the Balance
Arylwren, called Wren, was born of a single night of passion between Myrddin Emrys, better known as the Merlin, and…
Household Gods
Nicole Gunther-Perrin, single mother and transplanted Californian, is having the worst week of her life. Her deadbeat ex-husband heads to…
The Armada Boy
Past and present again intertwine in the second of the Wesley Peterson crime novels (first up was The Merchant’s House),…
The Waters of Babylon: A Novel of Lawrence After Arabia
T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) easily qualifies as one of the most fascinating and controversial military figures in Britain’s…
Hill Country
When several years ago I first picked up True Women, Janice Woods Windle’s first novel about the passionate, tumultuous lives…
The Emperor’s General
You’d probably find this book in your local store in with the military adventure novels of Tom Clancy and so…
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.
