Ballantine
The Fire
This sequel to a 1988 bestseller, The Eight, picks up the story thirty years later. Alexandra Solarin, daughter of Cat…
The Night Villa
Literary fiction set in the present day, with flashbacks to 79 AD. Sophie Chase is a classics professor who is…
Her Every Pleasure
Princess Sophia and Major Gabriel Knight are the main characters in the third part of Gaelen Foley’s Spice trilogy. Sophia…
Troy: Fall of Kings
A merciless war of attrition has reduced golden Troy to a city of starvation and scavengers. While Hektor, greatest of…
Buckingham Palace Gardens
The Prince of Wales has invited some experts to Buckingham Palace to consider a project to build a Cape-to-Cairo railroad…
The Steel Wave
This second novel in Shaara’s World War II trilogy starts in January 1944 (after a fast-paced introduction covering the war…
The German Bride
It’s Berlin, 1865, and Eva Frank, the romantic daughter of a Jewish banker, falls in love with a handsome painter…
Gentlemen of the Road
Pulitzer Prize-winning Michael Chabon has “gone in search of a little adventure” in this impressive genre-twisting tale set along the…
The Lady Elizabeth
Editors' choice
How does a Princess Elizabeth become a Lady Elizabeth within a matter of days, the four-year-old wants to know? Her…
Troy: Fall of Kings
David Gemmell’s untimely death in 2006 robbed the world of a master storyteller. His wife’s involvement in the Troy trilogy…
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.
