About
Book Reviews
- Our print magazine for members The Historical Novels Review has published reviews of 20,000+ books. Become a member to get exclusive early access to our latest reviews too!
  Browse our magazines
  
  Submit your novel for review
Articles
- Our features are original articles from our print magazines (these will say where they were originally published) or original articles commissioned for this site. If you would like to contribute an article for the magazine and/or site, please contact us.
What's On
- Our worldwide membership loves to meet up. Many travel thousands of miles to do so. Discover more about our conferences, local chapters and more.
Member Directory
- Our online member directory allows visitors to view members’ profiles, their latest website/blog posts and links to their Facebook, Twitter and Goodreads accounts. It is also where our staff first look for news and features for the site.
Awards
- HNS Awards have helped discover and launch the author careers of Michel Faber, Ruth Downie, Hilary Green, Martin Sutton, Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott, Nikki Marmery, Margaret Skea, Warwick Cairns, Katherine Mezzacappa and Elizabeth Macneal. Our ARA and Saudi awards are amongst the most generous of all literary prizes.

Bethany Skaggs

Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War

By Nathaniel Philbrick - Published 2006

Genres:

In this revisionist, popular history, Philbrick takes on Plymouth, the Pilgrims, and King Philip’s War. Unlike the harshness of life at Jamestown, ...Read Review

Hood: Book One of the Raven Trilogy

By Stephen Lawhead - Published 2006

Genres:

Adventure

Lawhead’s take on the Robin Hood legend is original, engaging, and unorthodox, for this Robin Hood isn’t an Englishman in Sherwood ...Read Review

The Unexpected George Washington: His Private Life

By Harlow Giles Unger - Published 2006

Genres:

Nonfiction

Could there be a new biography that reveals anything unexpected about the Founding Father? Possibly, but this isn’t it. Unger utilizes correspondence ...Read Review

A Play Of Knaves

By Margaret Frazer - Published 2006

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

A Play of Knaves, the third in the Joliffe Mysteries series (a spin-off of Frazer’s well-known Sister Frevisse mysteries) finds the intrepid ...Read Review

Thunderstruck

By Erik Larson - Published 2006

Genres:

Mystery/Crime Nonfiction

Larson (of Devil in the White City fame) again uses his trademark dual storylines to chronicle Guglielmo Marconi and the advent of the ...Read Review

The Blood Confession

By Alisa M. Libby - Published 2006

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

This disturbingly dark young adult novel is based on the life of Countess Erzsébet Báthory, the notorious female Dracula who holds ...Read Review

The Temple Dancer

By John Speed - Published 2006

Genres:

Adventure Mystery/Crime Romance

In the mid-17th century Portuguese colony of Goa, beautiful, sheltered Lucinda Dasana is heir to the family fortune. But her family’...Read Review

Captain John Smith : Jamestown and the Birth of the American Dream

By Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler - Published 2006

Genres:

Nonfiction

Books about both John Smith and the early colonization efforts at Jamestown are numerous, and this book doesn’t cover any new ...Read Review

The Last Boleyn

By Karen Harper - Published 2006

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

. (Prev. pub. as Passion’s Reign, Kensington, 1983) Mary Boleyn, Anne’s long-eclipsed sister, has lately had her own surge of popularity (see Philippa ...Read Review