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This is THE best place to find out 
about new historical fiction.

'The Historical Novels Review is where I find out what’s happening in the historical fiction market.'  – Carole Blake, Blake Friedmann Literary Agency.

If you love historical fiction, please JOIN the society today.  You won't be sorry.

'I've just read Solander - it's a triumph!'  - Bernard Cornwell.
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The Historical Novel Society, founded in 1997, promotes all aspects of historical fiction.  We provide:

• Support and opportunities for new writers, 
  
• Information for students, booksellers, and librarians, 
  
• A community for authors, readers, agents, and publishers.

Membership provides many benefits: we welcome anyone who is enthusiastic or curious about the genre.  Because the society is such a strong and supportive community, membership is a great value. 

The society publishes the quarterly Historical Novels Review magazine. The Historical Novels Review aims to review every new work of historical fiction released in the USA and the UK. Selected titles from Canada and Australia are also reviewed, for a grand total of over 800 reviews per year. It is the only magazine of its kind, the best and most complete guide to the latest historical fiction in the world. 

The society also publishes the twice yearly magazine Solander. Solander features interviews with current authors (Cecelia Holland, Wilbur Smith, Diana Gabaldon) as well as retrospectives on the great names of historical fiction (Georgette Heyer, Alfred Duggan, Rosemary Sutcliff, Mary Renault). We also publish original fiction by new and established authors (Michel Faber, Elizabeth Chadwick).

Our annual conferences alternate between the UK and North America.  Registration is open for our next UK conference, to be held on 17 October, 2010, at the Mechanics' Institute in Manchester, England.  Our 4th North American conference is scheduled from June 17-19, 2011 in sunny San Diego, California.  A call for speakers for San Diego will be posted in late July of 2010.

Historical Novels Review Online is our quarterly online publication, featuring reviews of electronically-published and subsidy-published historical novels.

Our website aims to answer your first questions about the Society, but if you have any further queries, please write us.

News from the Society:

Registration is open for our next UK conference, to be held on 17 October 2010 at the Mechanics Institute in Manchester.

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The 4th North American HNS Conference will be held June 17-19, 2011 in San Diego.
Our author Guests of Honor will be Cecelia Holland and Harry Turtledove.
Look for a call for speakers later this summer.
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Read Editors' Choice reviews from the May 2010 issue of the Historical Novels Review.

Also read the May 2010 issue of Historical Novels Review Online.

Find a great selection of your favorite books at Borders.com.

View other writing groups and competitions at the National Association of Writers' Groups.

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For our author members: to have your new books featured here, please contact us.

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