About
Book Reviews
- Our print magazine for members The Historical Novels Review has published reviews of 20,000+ books. Become a member to get exclusive early access to our latest reviews too!
  Browse our magazines
  
  Submit your novel for review
Articles
- Our features are original articles from our print magazines (these will say where they were originally published) or original articles commissioned for this site. If you would like to contribute an article for the magazine and/or site, please contact us.
What's On
- Our worldwide membership loves to meet up. Many travel thousands of miles to do so. Discover more about our conferences, local chapters and more.
Member Directory
- Our online member directory allows visitors to view members’ profiles, their latest website/blog posts and links to their Facebook, Twitter and Goodreads accounts. It is also where our staff first look for news and features for the site.
Awards
- HNS Awards have helped discover and launch the author careers of Michel Faber, Ruth Downie, Hilary Green, Martin Sutton, Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott, Nikki Marmery, Margaret Skea, Warwick Cairns, Katherine Mezzacappa and Elizabeth Macneal. Our ARA and Saudi awards are amongst the most generous of all literary prizes.

Boris Akunin

She Lover of Death: A Fandorin Mystery

By Boris Akunin - Published 2020

Genres:

Wishing to cast off her humble rural Siberian upbringing, Masha Mironova transforms herself into the daring Columbine, a young woman searching for love ...Read Review

The Coronation: A Fandorin Mystery

By Boris Akunin - Published 2010 Published 2019

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

1896: The Romanov imperial family and heads of state from around the world gather in Moscow for the coronation of Tsar Nicholas II. Among ...Read Review

All the World’s A Stage

By Boris Akunin - Published 2018

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

In 1911 Moscow, renowned detective and self-described harmonious man Erast Fandorin expects to be involved in the investigation about minister Stolypin’s murder – and ...Read Review

The State Counsellor

By Boris Akunin - Published 2017

Genres:

Thriller

Moscow, 1891: On a secret train, passing through snowy wastes, an assassin claiming to be State Counsellor Erast Fandorin stabs the new Governor General ...Read Review

He Lover of Death

By Boris Akunin - Published 2010

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

In the latest Erast Fandorin mystery, the resourceful orphan, Senka, a sort of Muscovite Artful Dodger, has his life changed irrevocably when he ...Read Review

The State Counsellor

By Boris Akunin - Published 2008

Genres:

Mystery/Crime Thriller

I am a Boris Akunin fan, and the latest in his Erast Fandorin series does not disappoint. Fandorin is a policeman working in ...Read Review

Special Assignments

By Andrew Bromfield (trans.) - By Boris Akunin - Published 2007

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

In this latest addition to the Erast Fandorin series, Akunin offers his international fans a double dose of intriguing and absolutely unputdownable novellas ...Read Review

Pelagia and the Black Monk

By Boris Akunin - Published 2007

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Did you know that Boris Akunin writes detective stories as well as thrillers? Neither did I, but the first two of his Sister ...Read Review

Sister Pelagia and the White Bulldog

By Boris Akunin - Published 2007

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Philologist, critic, essayist and translator from the Japanese Grigory Chkhartishvili adopts the pen name of Boris Akunin for this anticipated mystery trilogy, the ...Read Review