Children & Young Adult
Forthcoming children’s and YA historical novels for 2023
The Historical Novel Society lists mainstream and small press titles for readers aged 4 – 18. Books are set in eras up to the early 1970s. ...Read Article
Wordsmith Revisited: The Works of George Alfred Henty
WRITTEN BY JON G. BRADLEY & SAM ALLISON George Alfred Henty died in November 1902 just several weeks shy of his seventieth birthday. Considered ...Read Article
Launch: Margaret McNellis’s The Red Fletch
INTERVIEW BY TRACEY WARR You thought you knew the legend of Robin Hood, but think again. Margaret McNellis’s new novel, The Red ...Read Article
Forthcoming children’s and YA historical novels for 2022
The Historical Novel Society lists mainstream and small press titles for readers aged 4 – 18. Books are set in eras up to the early 1970s. ...Read Article
Forthcoming children’s and YA historical novels for 2021
The Historical Novel Society lists mainstream and small press titles for readers aged 4 – 18. Books are from eras up to the 1970s. Details are ...Read Article
A Mirror to the World: Historical Fiction for Children and Young Adults
WRITTEN BY LINDA SEVER Children’s fiction has a huge responsibility and an equally big opportunity to produce inclusive books which accurately reflect ...Read Article
Saving Washington: An Interview with Chris Formant
Somewhere deep beneath the bustling streets of Brooklyn, New York lie the remains of perhaps the most important, yet most forgotten, citizen soldiers ...Read Article
New Voices: Colleen Adair Fliedner, Matt Gianni, Janet Hancock & Kip Wilson
Kip Wilson has blended her interest in poetry with her skills as an author to create her Young Adult fiction novel White Rose (...Read Article
Young Adult War Fiction: Fixture or Trend?
A short perusal of Historical Novels Review’s Children’s & Young Adult book reviews over the past year reveals an interesting statistic: ...Read Article
Being “On the Ground”: An Interview with Felicity Pulman, Author of the Janna Chronicles
WRITTEN BY ELISABETH STORRS Australian historical novelists face challenges when writing about places thousands of miles away and centuries in the past. Felicity ...Read Article






