Historical Novel Review, Sample Content List - August 2002

 

PRE-HISTORY

The Shelters of Stone, Jean M. Auel

BIBLICAL

Adiel, Shlomo DuNour
Mary, Called Magdalene, Margaret George

CLASSICAL

Cleopatra's Heir, Gillian Bradshaw
The Eye of Cybele, Daniel Chavarria
Aristotle and Poetic Justice, Margaret Doody
Murder at the Panionic Games, Michael B. Edwards
Pharaoh, Karen Essex
Last of the Amazons, Steven Pressfield
A Mist of Prophecies, Steven Saylor

1ST CENTURY

The Jupiter Myth, Lindsey Davis
Domina, Paul Doherty

3RD CENTURY

Finn MacCool, Morgan Llywelyn

4TH CENTURY

Eagle in the Snow, Wallace Breem

7TH CENTURY

Khalifah, John Elray 

9TH CENTURY

Come Back to Me, Josie Litton
Dream of Me and Believe In Me, Josie Litton
Ceridwen of Kilton, Octavia Randolph
Memoirs of a Byzantine Eunuch, Christopher Harris

10TH CENTURY

The Soul Thief, Cecelia Holland 

12TH CENTURY

Knight With Armour, Alfred Duggan
The Grim Reaper, Bernard Knight 

13TH CENTURY

The Treasure of Montsegur, Sophy Burnham
Baudolino, Umberto Eco 

14TH CENTURY

The Devil's Acolyte, Michael Jecks
The Knight and the Rose, Isolde Martyn 

15TH CENTURY

The World, The Flesh, and the Devil, Reay Tannahill 

16TH CENTURY

Day of Wrath, Iris Collier
Face Down Across the Western Sea, Kathy Lynn Emerson
The Ruffler's Child, John Pilkington
The Twentieth Wife, Indu Sundaresan 

17TH CENTURY

Susannah Morrow / The Fatal Key, Megan Chance
Velvet and Steel, Elizabeth Daish
Speaks the Nightbird, Robert McCammon
Embrace the Dawn, Kathleen Morgan
The Water's Edge, Virginia Bailey Parker
No More the Sword, Marcia Treece
The Passion of Artemisia, Susan Vreeland 

18TH CENTURY

The Curse of Treasure Island, Francis Bryan
Casanova in Bohemia, Andrei Codrescu
The History of Sir Henry, Netta Cruse
The Grenadillo Box, Janet Gleeson
The Masquerade, Nicholas Griffin
The Canebrake Men, Cameron Judd
Canaletto and the Case of Bonnie Prince Charlie, Janet Laurence
Carolan's Concerto, Caiseal Mor
For Love or Country, Kerrelyn Sparks
Freedom in My Love, Linden Salter
The Duchess and the Doxy, Janet Mary Tomson
The Scottish Thistle, Cindy Vallar
Angelina, Janet Woods

19TH CENTURY

A Question of Honor, Nita Abrams
Paradise Alley, Kevin Baker
The Courtship, Lynna Banning
No Other Place, Irene Bennett Brown
Kiss the Bride, Patricia Cabot
Moon of Bitter Cold, Frederick J. Chiaventone
The Bondswoman's Narrative, Hannah Crafts
A Home in the Valley, Dianna Crawford
Cut to the Heart, Ava Dianne Day
Walk Through Darkness, David Anthony Durham
The Wedding Dress, Virginia Ellis
Red Water, Judith Freeman
Clara, Janice Galloway
Paradise Park, Iris Gower
Daughter of the Game, Tracy Grant
Maid of Honour, Melinda Hammond
The Tender Vine, Kristen Heitzmann
The Mulberry Empire, Philip Hensher
Shadows and Elephants, Edward Hower
Regency Runaway, Gillian Kaye
The Way of the Coyote, Elmer Kelton
American Scoundrel, Thomas Keneally
The Way Upcountry, Barrington King
Magnolia Creek, Jill Marie Landis
Lost Nation, Jeffrey Lent
Shades of Honor, Wendy Lindstrom
Invitation to a Dynamite Party, Peter Lovesey
Seducing Mr. Heywood, Jo Manning
The Piano Tuner, Daniel Mason
Aindreas, The Messenger: Louisville, Kentucky, 1855, Gerald McDaniel
Aindreas, The Scribe, 1865, Gerald McDaniel
Lee at Chattanooga, Dennis P. McIntire
Sin Killer, Larry McMurtry
The Running Iron, Lauran Paine
Symptoms of Death, Paula Paul
The White Crow, Cynthia Peale
Child of Fire, Maureen Peters
Rivers of Gold, Tracie Peterson
Courting Shadows, Jem Poster
The Bartered Bride, Mary Jo Putney
The Book of Shadows, James Reese
The Problem of the Surly Servant, Roberta Rogow
The Advocate's Wife, Norman Russell
All That Lives, Melissa Sanders-Self
Disquiet Heart, Randall Silvis
God's Fool, Mark Slouka
A Dark and Distant Shore, Reay Tannahill
The Restless Sea, E.V. Thompson
Eleazar, Exodus to the West, Michel Tournier
The Voice of the People, Jean Vautrin
The Dark Clue, James Wilson

 

20TH CENTURY

Bitter Eden, Tatumkhulu Afrika
The Floating City, Pamela Ball
Before Hiroshima, Joshua Barkan
The Chestnut Tree, Charlotte Bingham
Murphy's Law, Rhys Bowen
Any Human Heart, William Boyd
The Master of Rain, Tom Bradby
Warning of War, James Brady
The Incantation of Frida K, Kate Braverman
Skeleton Crew, Beverly Connor
Green Grow the Victims, Jeanne M. Dams
Tangled Threads, Margaret Dickinson
The Tea Rose, Jennifer Donnelly
Meet John Trow, Thomas Dyja
Peacetime, Robert Edric
Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides
High on a Hill, Dorothy Garlock
Sea Room, Norman Gautreau
Provinces of Night, William Gay
Swimming Toward the Ocean, Carole Glickfeld
Falling from the Sky, Tim Goodwin
The Long Journey, Wayne Greenhaw
Steinhof, Carola Hansson
The Seal Wife, Kathryn Harrison
The Brothers, Milton Hatoum
The Long Silence of Mario Salviati, Etienne van Heerden
A Simple Habana Melody, Oscar Hijuelos
The Jazz Bird, Craig Holden
When the Elephants Dance, Tess Uriza Holthe
A Parchment of Leaves, Silas House
Whispers on the Water, Audrey Howard
Burning Marguerite, Elizabeth Inness-Brown
In the Kingdom of Mists, Jane Jakeman
The Good German, Joseph Kanon
Eva's Cousin, Sibylle Knauss
Billie's Kiss, Elizabeth Knox
The Impressionist, Hari Kunzru
Rush Home Road, Lori Lansens
Crow Lake, Mary Lawson
Blues in the Wind, Whitney J. LeBlanc
No Certain Rest, Jim Lehrer
Darlington's Fall, Brad Leithauser
Written on Glass, Judith Lennox
Lovely Green Eyes, Arnost Lustig
Miracle at St. Anna, James McBride
The Main Cages, Philip Marsden
Stormy Weather, Michael Meehan
The Haunting of L., Howard Norman
The Silent Voyage, James Pattinson
The Snake, The Crocodile, and the Dog, Elizabeth Peters
The Golden One, Elizabeth Peters
The Separation, Christopher Priest
The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer, "Joyce Reardon, PhD"
The Foolish Virgin, C W Reed
Song of the Water Saints, Nelly Rosario
Early One Morning, Robert Ryan
Carnival of Rainbows, Barbara Soper
The Real McCoy, Darin Strauss
Death's Own Door, Andrew Taylor
Eve's Daughter, Michael Taylor
Snow Island, Katherine Towler
Sophie and the Rising Sun, Augusta Trobaugh
The Table, Matthew Waynee
Will's War, Janice Woods Windle
A Rare Ruby, Dee Williams
A River in May, Edward Wilson
Dancing Dead, Deborah Woodworth

 

MULTI-PERIOD

The Woman Who Gave Birth to Rabbits, Emma Donoghue
Pasadena, David Ebershoff
The Dance of Geometry, Brian Howell
Charleston, John Jakes
The Sweet By and By, Jeanne Mackin
Anchoress of Shere, Paul Moorcraft
The Dream of Scipio, Iain Pears
The Caves of Perigord, Martin Walker

 

TIMESLIP

Fire, Burn!, Mallory Dorn Hart

 

ALTERNATIVE HISTORY

Stars and Stripes Triumphant, Harry Harrison
The Years of Rice and Salt, Kim Stanley Robinson

 

HISTORICAL FANTASY

The Alchemist's Door, Lisa Goldstein
Outlaw Sword, J. Ardian Lee

 

NON-FICTION

A Brief History of the Royal Flying Corps in World War I, Ralph Barker
Last Waltz in Vienna, George Clare
A Brief History of Fighting Ships, David Davies
A Brief History of the Druids, Peter Beresford Ellis
The Trench, Richard van Emden
Bloodfeud, Richard Fletcher
Hope, Marian Fowler
A Brief History of the Great Moguls, Bamber Gascoigne
John Knox-Democrat, Roderick Graham
The Carlyles at Home, Thea Holme
Scanty Particulars, Rachel Holmes
Blue Latitudes, Tony Horwitz
Magda Goebbels, Anja Klabunde
Henry and Mary Ponsonby, William M. Kuhn
How We Lived Then, Norman Longmate
The Dig Tree, Sarah Murgatroyd
Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown, Richard Newman, ed.
Wilful Murder / Lusitania: An Epic Tragedy,
Diana Preston
The Villa, The Lake, The Meeting, Mark Roseman
Apricots on the Nile, Colette Rossant
Imperial Vanities, Brian Thompson
The Mammoth Book of How It Happened-Titanic, Geoff Tibbals, ed.
Imperial Legend, Alexis S. Troubetzkoy
The Fox Boy, Peter Walker
The Pope and the Heretic, Michael White

 

CHILDREN'S

The Great Fire of London, Jill Atkins
The Wildflower Girl, Marita Conlon-McKenna
My Story: Blitz, Vince Cross
Lucas Whitaker, Cynthia DeFelice
The Flight of the Mallard, a Fenland Adventure, Rosemary Hayes
The Mystery at the Globe, Michael Lawrence
The Kite Rider, Geraldine McCaughrean
So Far from Skye, Judith O'Neill
Hearing Voices, Judith O'Neill
Firehead, K.M. Peyton
My Story: My Tudor Queen, Alison Prince
Blitzcat, Robert Westall

 

AUDIO

The Other Boleyn Girl, Philippa Gregory