Victorian
The Great Detective: The Amazing Rise and Immortal Life of Sherlock Holmes
I confess to a long-held fascination with Holmes and Watson and was instantly intrigued at this promised “biography of someone…
Yokki and the Parno Gry
Editors' choice
In this delightful traditional Travellers’ tale, young Yokki tells the story of the Parno Gry, a magical horse which appears…
Girl in the Afternoon
In 1870, 18-year-old Aimee Savaray, daughter of a prominent Parisian family, aspires to become an artist. As war rages on…
Marrying Winterbourne
Lisa Kleypas’s Marrying Winterborne, set in the Victorian bustle period circa 1870, is a continuation of the story of Rhys…
Death on Duchess Street
Ms Pattenden’s crime novel is an easy, light read: the plot takes you along at a good pace, and you…
Mister Memory
At one level this is a very good roman policier, set in Paris in the Belle Époque. It begins with…
Legacy of Hunger
This is less a novel than a travelogue of a young American girl’s journey to Ireland in 1846 during the…
Helena Landless
Charles Dickens’s last and famously unfinished novel The Mystery of Edwin Drood receives a very smart and entertaining pastiche treatment…
Lost and Gone Forever: A Novel of Scotland Yard’s Murder Squad
London in 1890 has Private Detective Nevil Hammersmith on the trail of missing Scotland Yard Murder Squad detective Walter Day.…
Light up in Wonder
It’s 1894 when Sam Lockhart, a young Brighton gardener, is hastily recruited by an eccentric character to prune a hedge…
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.
