Reviews

Reviews of some 25,000+ historical fiction books

Servus: How Slavery Made the Roman World

By Emma Southon - Published 2026

Genres:

Nonfiction

Romulus founded Rome in 753 BCE by opening the gates to enslaved men and making them free citizens. Then on, the story of Rome ...Read Review

Stealing Hitler’s Rocket

By Guy Walters - Published 2026

Genres:

Nonfiction

An incredible story of World War 2. In 1944 the Germans were testing V2 rockets from a secret site deep within occupied Poland. This work ...Read Review

But Where’s Home?

By Toni Ann Johnson - Published 2026

Genres:

LiterarySagaShort Stories

Toni Ann Johnson describes But Where’s Home? as a novella with linked short stories, but she underestimates the effectiveness of her writing. ...Read Review

The Heiress and the Woodsman

By Christine Hill Suntz - Published 2026

Genres:

AdventureInspirational Romance

Suntz sets her romantic adventure in 1837 Ontario, Canada, where a feisty heiress who, faced with a dying father and a blackmailing neighbour who ...Read Review

The Crownless Queen

By Elizabeth Chadwick - Published 2026

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

The Crownless Queen is the second part of Elizabeth Chadwick’s duology about the life of Joan of Kent. In this instalment, we ...Read Review

Hypocrite’s Row

By Eliot Kleinberg - Published 2026

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Miami, Florida. This novel begins with tragedy, and Nate Moran, Miami police detective, having to give the worst possible news to the wife ...Read Review

Beyond Where Words Can Go: A Novel in 200 Sonnets

By Richard Smith - Published 2026

Genres:

Literary

Poignant. Unique. Extraordinary. Beyond Where Words Can Go is all of these and much more. In technical terms, it is an historical novel ...Read Review

Timber & Tides

By Ted Hill MBE - Published 2026

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

The Mary Rose, Henry VIII’s magnificent flagship, sank in the Solent in 1545, taking to the bottom nearly all of her crew of 500 ...Read Review

Maybe Marilyn

By Lois Cahall - Published 2026

Genres:

Alternate History

Sent to a Hollywood nursing home to interview its residents, Tom Hogan thinks he is on a dead-end assignment until a retired Los ...Read Review

The Story Keeper (US) / The Midnight Estate (UK/Australia)

By Kelly Rimmer - Published 2026

Genres:

Fiona Winslow has years of experience in conservation architecture, and her newest project needs her help badly. In 2010, she’s just purchased the ...Read Review