Nonfiction
Rites of Peace: The Fall of Napoleon & the Congress of Vienna
This is an astonishingly rich work, packed with detail and analysis. Not simply about the Congress of Vienna, it establishes…
The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi 1857
This engrossing book is one of Dalrymple’s best. The Indian Mutiny/War for Independence is still a controversial subject. Dalrymple avoids both…
Speaking in the Past Tense: Canadian Novelists on Writing Historical Fiction
Wyile conducted interviews with eleven writers of Canadian historical fiction to create a wide-ranging conversation about the challenges and significance…
Decency and Disorder: The Age of Cant 1789-1837
The generation that grew up during the Napoleonic Wars was notorious for its boisterous character, plain-speaking, hard drinking, cherishing of…
Billy the Kid: The Endless Ride
Henry McCarty aka William Bonney aka Billy the Kid lived a short but violent life from 1859 until he was…
The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh
The subtitle of this fascinating book is ‘A Woman in World History.’ Because it is not just a biography of…
The Crescent City Lynchings: The Murder of Chief Hennessy, the New Orleans “Mafia” Trials, and the Parish Prison Mob
The record surrounding lynchings, race killings and mass crowd hysteria in American history has grown exponentially in the past ten…
Sword and Blossom
Sword and Blossom is subtitled “A British Officer’s Enduring Love for a Japanese Woman,” but in light of what Arthur…
Last Waltz in Vienna
Stories of Central European Jewry’s descent into the Nazi nightmare, though always shocking, are not unfamiliar. What makes George Clare’s…
Reading Judas, The Gospel of Judas and the Shaping of History
One of the big questions about the death of Jesus, of abiding fascination to theologians, historians and the just plain…
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.
