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Historical Novels Review - Table of Contents - August 2005

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Features:

Editorials
The Forum (letters)
Miss Bridget Jane's Diary - Amanda Grange
Val's Last Word - Val Whitmarsh
Bowing Out - Sarah Cuthbertson
The Evolution of the Pirate: Romanticism and Reality - Cindy Vallar
Being Helen - Val Perry talks to Margaret George about her forthcoming novel, Helen of Troy
One Single Bud: Lady Florence Dixie - Janet Mary Tomson

Books Reviewed: 

Abbott, Megan - Die a Little
Alison, Jane - Natives and Exotics
Ashley, Mike, ed. - The Mammoth Book of King Arthur
Aston, Elizabeth - The Exploits & Adventures of Miss Alethea Darcy
Atkinson, Coral - The Love Apple
Baker, C.D. - Quest of Hope
Ballard, J.G. - Empire of the Sun
Barker, Ann - The Squire and the Schoolmistress
Baxter, Holly - Tears of the Dragon
Berkin, Carol - Revolutionary Mothers
Binding, Tim - Man Overboard
Blackburn, Julia - With Billie
Blake, Jennifer - Challenge to Honor
Bordihn, Maria R. - The Falcon of Palermo
Burchett, Jan, and Sara Vogler - The Lady Grace Mysteries: Deception
Burkhard, Daryl - Riddle in the Mountain
Burns, Terry W. - Mysterious Ways
Burton, Ann - Abigail's Story
Cabot, Meg - Victoria and the Rogue
Cameron, Stella - Testing Ms. Toogood
Chaikin, Linda Lee - Today's Embrace
Chamberlin, Ann - Gloria
Chidgey, Catherine - The Transformation
Childs, Alan - The Dragon's Head Company
Cleary, Rita - Charbonneau's Gold
Craig, David - The Unbroken Harp
Dallas, Sandra - New Mercies
Davis, Lindsay - See Delphi and Die
Demarest, Jaki - The Cardinal's Heir
Dickinson, David - Death and the Jubilee (audio)
Dickinson, Margaret - Without Sin
Doherty, Paul - The Season of the Hyaena
Domingue, Ronlyn - The Mercy of Thin Air
Douglass, Sara - The Wounded Hawk
Dudman, Clare - 98 Reasons for Being
Dunlap, Susanne - Emilie's Voice
dyer, k.c. - Shades of Red
Eglin, Anthony - The Lost Gardens
Ekirch, A. Roger - At Day's Close
Elliot, L.M. - Under a War Torn Sky
Elliott, Angela J. - Some Strange Scent of Death
Emerson, Kathy Lynn - Face Down Beneath the Banqueting House
Erdrich, Louise - The Game of Silence
Erhart, Margaret - Crossing Bully Creek
Erickson, Carolly - The Hidden Diary of Marie Antoinette
Erickson, Carolly - The Girl from Botany Bay
Farley, Christopher John - Kingston by Starlight
Finney, Patricia - The Lady Grace Mysteries: Conspiracy
Francis, June - A Dream to Share
Frederick, Heather Vogel - The Education of Patience Goodspeed
Gallo, Max - Napoleon: The Immortal of St. Helena
Gaskill, Malcolm - Witchfinders: A Seventeenth Century English Tragedy
Gavron, Jeremy - An Acre of Barren Ground
Gear, Kathleen O'Neal and W. Michael - People of the Raven
Gibb, Lorna - Lady Hester: Queen of the East
Gold, Alan - Warrior Queen
Goodman, Jordan - The Rattlesnake
Gouge, Louise M. - Hannah Rose
Granger, Pip - No Peace for the Wicked
Greenfield, Amy Butler - A Perfect Red
Greenwood, Kerry - Ruddy Gore
Gregory, Philippa - Earthly Joys
Gregory, Susanna - The Mark of a Murderer
Guill, Jane - Nectar from a Stone
Gurnah, Abdulrazak - Desertion
Gutcheon, Beth - Leeway Cottage
Haislip, Phyllis Hall - Divided Loyalties: A Revolutionary Fifer's Story
Hampton, Maisie - Love's Measure
Harington, Donald - Lightning Bug
Harington, Donald - The Choiring of the Trees
Harper, Karen - The Fyre Mirror
Harper, Tom - Knights of the Cross
Harries, Ann - No Place for a Lady
Harris, Tim - Restoration: Charles II and His Kingdoms
Harrison, Charles Yale - Generals Die in Bed
Heather, Peter - The Fall of the Roman Empire
Henderson, Lauren - Jane Austen's Guide to Dating
Hickam, Homer - The Ambassador's Son
Hill, Laban Carrick - Casa Azul
Hobbs, Peter - The Short Day Dying
Hochstetler, J.M. - Native Son
Hood, Evelyn - A Certain Freedom
Jackson, Lee - The Welfare of the Dead
Jackson, Louise A. - Gone to Texas: From Virginia to Adventure
Jeffreys, Diarmuid - Aspirin: The Remarkable Story of a Wonder Drug
Johnson, Catherine - Stella
Johnson, Sarah L. - Historical Fiction: A Guide to the Genre
Joyce, Brenda - Deadly Illusions
Kanon, Joseph - Alibi
Kaye, Gillian - The Trafalgar Connection
Kelly, Judith - Rock Me Gently
Kelton, Elmer - Jericho's Road
Kirkpatrick, Jane - A Land of Sheltered Promise
Knight, H.R. - What Rough Beast
Kohn, Rebecca - The Gilded Chamber
Lake, Deryn - The Governor's Ladies
Lawrence, Caroline - The Gladiators from Capua
Leon, Bonnie - The Love of the Land
Levy, Andrea - Small Island
Lightfoot, Freda - For All Our Tomorrows
Lindsay, Jennifer - The Lady Soldier
Liss, David - A Spectacle of Corruption
Maclean, Anna - Louisa and the Country Bachelor
Makine, Andrei - The Earth and Sky of Jacques Dorme
Malcolm, M.L. - Silent Lies
Man, John - Attila: The Barbarian King Who Challenged Rome
Marvin, Isabel R. - A Bride for Anna's Papa
Matthews, Beryl - Fighting With Shadows
McCormack, Patrick - The Last Companion
McGoogan, Ken - Ancient Mariner
McIntosh, Pat - The Harper's Quine (audio)
McMullan, Kate - My Travels with Capts. Lewis and Clark
Medieval Murderers - A Tainted Relic
Mercury, Karen - The Hinterlands
Michael, Prince of Greece - The White Night of St. Petersburg
Michaels, Kasey - Shall We Dance
Miles, David - The Tribes of Britain
Miller, Linda Lael - McKettrick's Choice
Mosby, Katherine - Twilight
Mosher, Howard Frank - Where the Rivers Flow North
Mosher, Howard Frank - Marie Blythe
Mosse, Kate - Labyrinth
Napoli, Donna Jo - Bound
Nasson, Bill - Britannia's Empire
Nelson, James - All the Brave Fellows
Norminton, Gregory - Ghost Portrait
Oden, Scott - Men of Bronze
Olson, Neil - The Icon
O'Neill, Caroline Coleman - Loving Soren
Pardoe, Blaine - The Cruise of the Sea Eagle
Pears, Iain - The Portrait
Pembroke, Audrey - Hearts of Stone
Perez-Reverte, Arturo - Captain Alatriste
Peters, Elizabeth - The Serpent on the Crown
Petit, Caroline - The Fat Man's Daughter
Plaidy, Jean - Katharine of Aragon
Plaidy, Jean - The Sixth Wife
Powell, J. Mark, and Larry Meagher - The Curse of Cain
Quick, Amanda - Lie by Moonlight
Rabin, Staton - Betsy and the Emperor
Rayne, Sarah - A Dark Dividing
Reuter, Bjarne - The Ring of the Slave Prince
Riviere, William - By the Grand Canal
Robb, Candace - A Cruel Courtship
Roberts, John Maddox - SPQR IX: The Princess and the Pirate
Ronald, Susan - The Sancy Blood Diamond
Rosburg, Helen - By Honor Bound
Rosencof, Mauricio - The Letters that Never Came
Rowe, Rosemary - Enemies of the Empire
Rubin, Miri - The Hollow Crown
Rushforth, Peter - Pinkerton's Sister
Satterthwaite, Walter - Cavalcade
Saul, Nigel - The Three Richards
Sawyer, Cheryl - The Chase
Scoppetone, Sandra - This Dame For Hire
Shaw, Patricia - Storm Bay
Sherman, Jory - The Baron Honor
Slovo, Gillian - The Ice Road
Smalley, Peter - HMS Expedient
Smith, Wilbur - The Triumph of the Sun
Stace, Wesley - Misfortune
Steinke, Rene - Holy Skirts
Stirling, Jessica - Wives at War
Swindells, Robert - Blitzed
Taschek, Karen - Horse of Seven Moons
Taylor, Michael - Salt of the Earth
Thomas, Diane Coulter - The Year the Music Changed
Thomas, Janet - Rough Heritage
Thomas, Will - To Kingdom Come
Towler, Katherine - Evening Ferry
Tremayne, Kate - The Loveday Pride
Tremayne, Peter - Badger's Moon
Turner, Faye - Before the Dawn of Alexander the Great
Vantrease, Brenda Rickman - The Illuminator
Venning, Annabel - Following the Drum
Vreeland, Susan - Life Studies
Wait, Lea - Wintering Well
Walters, Guy - The Occupation
Watson, Jules - The Dawn Stag
Wheeler, Richard S. - An Obituary for Major Reno
Wolfe, Richard - Hell-Hole of the Pacific
Wood, Gillen D'Arcy - Hosack's Folly
Wray, John - Canaan's Tongue
Yen Mah, Adeline - Chinese Cinderella and the Secret Dragon Society
Young, Simon - AD 500: A Journey Through the Dark Isles of Britain and Ireland
Zacks, Richard - The Pirate Coast

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