HNR Issue 113 (August 2025)
Historical Novels Review, Issue 113 (August 2025)
A Brotherly Devotion: Murder Most Foul…
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A Brotherly Devotion is Jill Bray’s debut novel – two stories rolled into one, and both well-told. It is 1224, and Brother Clement is ...Read Review
Serpent Visions
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While most can recall the Greek heroes Odysseus and Oedipus, most (including me) would not remember the name of the blinded seer who ...Read Review
Words Matter: The Story of Hans and Sophie Scholl, and the White Rose Resistance
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Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult
This fictionalized biography in verse for middle-grade readers narrates the story of siblings Hans and Sophie Scholl, members of the White Rose Resistance ...Read Review
A Fine Piece of Jade
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Set in the years leading up to and during the Second Sino-Japanese War, also called the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, and ...Read Review
The Great Mann
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In October 1945, Charlie Trammell comes back to the US after harrowing years as a medic in WWII. Charlie, a 25-year-old Black man who ...Read Review
The Cardinal
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The Cardinal is Alison Weir’s most impressive novel to date. This reviewer has read them all. In it, Weir explores Cardinal Wolsey’...Read Review
The Devil Three Times
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Rickey Fayne’s debut novel is an ambitious family saga that spans 175 years of history, from the horrors of the trans-Atlantic slave trade ...Read Review
The One and Only Vivian Stone
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The One and Only Vivian Stone is a dual-period novel which begins in modern-day California with Margot DuBois as she deals with the ...Read Review
A Far Better Thing
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A good literary adaptation explores a question whose answer enriches the original, just as (to my mind) Pride, Prejudice, and Zombies supplies a ...Read Review
The Original
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Set at the end of the 19th century, The Original is the story of Grace Inderwick, who lives with rich relatives in Oxfordshire. ...Read Review
