St Martin's Griffin
Jeeves and the Wedding Bells
What ho, the renowned scribbler Sebastian Faulks has jolly well gone and bunged out a rather decent tale involving that…
Servants’ Hall: A Real-Life Upstairs, Downstairs Romance
Servants’ Hall brings domestic service in 1920s England to life through the memoirs of Margaret Powell (1907-1984), author-narrator, and ‘below…
The Venetian Bargain
It is the year 1576 on the Christian calendar, and the Ottoman Sultan means to take revenge on the Venetians…
The Secret Daughter of the Tsar
Laam’s book is a compelling speculative novel revolving around the doomed Romanov family. One of the more popular “wishful thinking”…
Once We Were Brothers
Elliot Rosenzweig is supposedly a survivor of Nazi persecution in Poland. He made it big after coming to America and,…
The Inquisitor’s Wife
In 1481, Queen Isabella, Dominican friar Torquemada, and the Spanish Inquisition arrive in Seville. Many Jewish families, as well as…
The Children of Wrath
This thriller, set in Depression-era Berlin, is the prequel to the action in The Sleepwalkers and features a younger Willi…
The Gilded Lily
Two teenage sisters, Ella and Sadie, escape from rural poverty to seek a living in Restoration London. We think we…
At the Mercy of the Queen
Margaret “Madge” Shelton of Norfolk, Anne Boleyn’s pretty 14-year-old cousin, becomes lady-in-waiting to the new queen, accompanied to court by…
The Raven’s Bride
We all know how sad and dreary Edgar Allan Poe’s life was, in real life and in his stories and…
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Over the last 20 years The Historical Novels Review (the society’s print magazine for our members) has published reviews of some 15,000 historical fiction books.
