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 Historical Novels Review

The Historical Novels Review aims to review every new work of adult historical fiction released in the USA or the UK.  Selected titles from Canada, Australia, and New Zealand are also reviewed, as are selected children's/young adult titles, for a grand total of over 800 reviews per year.


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


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Historical Novels Review - Table of Contents
August 2007

Magazine contents are available to HNS members through their subscription to the print Historical Novels Review.  Choose "Join the Society" on the left to enroll. 

Authors and publishers: to inquire about having your books reviewed in one of our publications, please get in touch with us.  See the main Historical Novels Review page for criteria and submission guidelines.

Our 10th anniversary issue!

Editorial: Happy Anniversary, HNS!, Bethany Latham
Historical Fiction Market News, Sarah Johnson
X-Caliber: Top 10 Historical Films of the Last 10 Years, Lisa Jensen
The Historical Novel Society, The First Ten Years: Bethany Latham interviews Richard Lee,
HNS Founder/Publisher (cover story)
Historical Novel Society Timeline, 1997-2007
Ten Landmark Historical Novels, or The Golden Apple of Discord, by Richard Lee
Readers' Choice: Your Favorite Historical Novels of the Last 10 Years, compiled by Bethany Latham
A Word from Our Editors: HNS Editors Past and Present Share Their Thoughts
The HNS Top 10 Reviewers List, compiled by Sarah Johnson
The 2007 HNS North American Conference, reports by Ann Parker and Peg Herring, photos by Chris Cevasco, Richard Scott, and Nancy Castaldo

Books Reviewed:
(Hyperlinks indicate Editors' Choice novels for this issue)

  • Abrams, Douglas Carlton - The Lost Diary of Don Juan

  • Abulhawa, Susan - The Scar of David

  • Admirand, C.H. - The Rancher's Heart

  • Agee, Jonis - The River Wife

  • Akunin, Boris - Special Assignments

  • Alexander, Tasha - A Poisoned Season

  • Amirrezvani, Anita - The Blood of Flowers

  • Anton, Maggie - Rashi's Daughters: Book II, Miriam

  • Asahina, Robert - Just Americans

  • Atkins, Ace - White Shadow

  • Baker, Ellen - Keeping the House

  • Begag, Azouz - Shantytown Kid

  • Begley, Louis - Matters of Honor

  • Belzoni, Paolo A. - Belisarius

  • Bennett, Vanora - Portrait of an Unknown Woman

  • Berg, Elizabeth - Dream When You're Feeling Blue

  • Biddle, Cordelia Frances - The Conjurer

  • Blixt, David - The Master of Verona

  • Blos, Joan W. - Letters from the Corrugated Castle

  • Blum, Deborah - Ghost Hunters: William James and the Search for Scientific Proof of Life After Death

  • Bowen, Rhys - Her Royal Spyness

  • Bowen, Rhys - In Dublin's Fair City

  • Boyne, John - The Thief of Time

  • Brandreth, Gyles - Oscar Wilde and the Candlelight Murders

  • Brightwell, Emily - Mrs. Jeffries and the Best-Laid Plans

  • Brinkbaumer, Klaus, and Clemens Hoges - The Voyage of the Vizcaina

  • Burke, Frances - Dragon Wind Rising

  • Buzzati, Dino - The Tartar Steppe

  • Caldwell, Wayne - Cataloochee

  • Capella, Anthony - The Wedding Officer

  • Carie, Jamie - Snow Angel

  • Carlyle, Liz - Never Lie to a Lady

  • Carroll, Susan - The Huntress

  • Carter, Betsy - Swim to Me

  • Chandler, Pauline - Viking Girl

  • Channer, Colin - The Girl with the Golden Shoes

  • Charles, Edward - Daughters of the Doge

  • Chattam, Maxim - The Cairo Diary

  • Chiaverini, Jennifer - The Quilter's Homecoming

  • Clare, George - Last Waltz in Vienna

  • Clark, Alan M., et al - The Blood of Father Time, Book 1, The New Cut

  • Cliff, Ann - Bitter Inheritance

  • Colley, Linda - The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh

  • Connolly, Joseph - Jack the Lad and Bloody Mary

  • Conroy, Robert - 1945

  • Court, Dilly - The Best of Sisters

  • Court, Dilly - The Cockney Sparrow

  • Court, Dilly - Tilly True

  • Craig, Gretchen - Ever My Love

  • Cronin, Michael - In the Morning

  • Cuate, Melodie A. - Journey to San Jacinto

  • Culhane, Patrick - Black Hats: A Novel of Wyatt Earp and Al Capone

  • Cunningham, M. Allen - Lost Son

  • D'Almeida, Sarah - The Musketeer's Seamstress

  • Dalrymple, William - The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi 1857

  • Davies, Peter Ho - The Welsh Girl

  • Delandande, Arnaud - The Dante Trap

  • Deutsch, Stacia, and Rhody Cohon - Blast to the Past: Washington's War

  • Dickinson, Margaret - Wish Me Luck

  • Dietz, Laura - In the Tenth House

  • Drucker, Eugene - The Savior

  • Elgin, Elizabeth - Turn Left at the Daffodils

  • Ellis, Peter Berresford - Eyewitness to Irish History

  • Emerson, Kathy Lynn - No Mortal Reason

  • Eng, Tan Twan - The Gift of Rain

  • Englander, Nathan - The Ministry of Special Cases

  • Faccini, Ben - The Incomplete Husband

  • Ferris, Gordon - Truth Dare Kill

  • Finch, Charles - A Beautiful Blue Death

  • Finerman, Debra - Mademoiselle Victorine

  • Fisher, Suzanne Woods - Copper Star

  • Flynn, Katie - Beyond the Blue Hills

  • Foley, Gaelen - Her Only Desire

  • Ford, Michael Curtis - The Fall of Rome

  • Frazer, Margaret - A Play of Isaac

  • Fritz, Jean - Who’s Saying What in Jamestown, Thomas Savage?

  • Furnivall, Kate - The Russian Concubine

  • Gabbay, Tom - The Lisbon Crossing

  • Gadsby, June - The Glory Girls

  • Gallagher, Nora - Changing Light

  • Galloway, Shelley - Suddenly, You

  • Gelber, Harry G. - The Dragon and the Foreign Devils

  • Gill, Elizabeth - The Secret

  • Glinert, Ed - Literary London

  • Goddard, Robert - In Pale Battalions

  • Goodwin, Jason - The Snake Stone

  • Gordon, Alan - The Lark's Lament

  • Gordon-Smith, Dolores - A Fete Worse Than Death

  • Goyer, Tricia - A Valley of Betrayal

  • Granger, Ann - The Companion

  • Grant, K.M. - How the Hangman Lost His Heart

  • Gray, Clio - Types of Everlasting Rest

  • Greenwood, Kerry - The Green Mill Murder

  • Groe, Diana - Silk Dreams

  • Hagen, George - Tom Bedlam

  • Hake, Cathy Marie - Bittersweet

  • Hammond, Melinda - The Belles Dames Club

  • Harrison, Cora - My Lady Judge

  • Harrison, Sarah - A Spell of Swallows

  • Harvey, Robert - American Shogun

  • Hearn, Julie - Ivy

  • Hellman, Libby Fischer - An Eye for Murder

  • Hill, Suzette A. - A Load of Old Bones

  • Hockensmith, Steve - On the Wrong Track

  • Hodes, Martha - The Sea Captain's Wife

  • Hong, Liu - Wives of the East Wind

  • Hood, Evelyn - Voices from the Sea

  • Hooper, Mary - Petals in the Ashes

  • Hornby, Simonetta Agnello - The Marchesa

  • Horwood, William, and Helen Rappaport - Dark Hearts of Chicago

  • Houston, James D. - Bird of Another Heaven

  • Hunt, Stephen - The Court of the Air

  • Jacobson, Douglas - Night of Flames

  • Jaffe, Marc, ed. - Best Stories of the American West, Volume I

  • Janeczko, Paul B. - Worlds Afire

  • Jecks, Michael - Dispensation of Death

  • Jeffries, Sabrina - Beware a Scot's Revenge

  • Jiles, Paulette - Stormy Weather

  • Kamron, Kent - Letters from Lydia

  • Kehlmann, Daniel - Measuring the World

  • Kelton, Elmer - Texas Showdown

  • Kemp, M.E. - Death of a Dutch Uncle

  • Keneally, Thomas - The Widow and Her Hero

  • Kiernan, Frances - The Last Mrs. Astor

  • King, Greg - Twilight of Splendor

  • Kynaston, David - Austerity Britain, 1945-51

  • Laker, Rosalind - To Dance with Kings

  • Langan, Ruth Ryan - Heart's Delight

  • Langley-Hawthorne, Clare - Consequences of Sin

  • Lawrence, Caroline - The Charioteer of Delphi

  • Lee, Hermione - Edith Wharton

  • Leon, Bonnie - To Love Anew

  • Lindsey, Johanna - Captive of My Desires

  • Low, Robert - The Whale Road

  • Mackey, Mary - The Notorious Mrs Winston

  • MacQuigg, Donna - The Doctor's Daughter

  • Mahfouz, Naguib - Three Novels of Ancient Egypt

  • Mallon, Thomas - Fellow Travelers

  • Manning, Chandra - What This Cruel War Was Over

  • Margolin, Leslie - The Adulteress

  • Marshall, Hazel - Troublesome Angels and the Red Island Pirates

  • Martin, Andrew - Murder at Deviation Junction

  • Martin, Rosemary - Secret Agent Girl

  • Martinez, Arturo O. - Pedrito's World

  • Mayhue, Melissa - Thirty Nights with a Highland Husband

  • McCarty, Monica - Highlander Untamed

  • McIntosh, Pat - St. Mungo's Robin

  • McMahon, Katherine - The Rose of Sebastopol

  • McManus, John - Alamo in the Ardennes

  • Meyerhoff, Marianne - Four Girls from Berlin

  • Meyers, Harold Burton - The Death at Awahi

  • Miller, Judith - In the Company of Secrets

  • Montefiore, Santa - Sea of Lost Love

  • Montero, Mayra - Dancing to "Almendra"

  • Moran, Michelle - Nefertiti

  • Morris, Gilbert - A Man for Temperance

  • Murdock, Mackie - War Relic

  • Newington, Nina - When Bones Dance

  • Niles, Douglas, and Michael Dobson - MacArthur's War

  • Noel, Gerard - The Renaissance Popes

  • O'Brien, Charles - Cruel Choices

  • Orcutt, Jane - All the Tea in China

  • Oskison, John Milton - The Singing Bird

  • Östergren, Klas - Gentlemen

  • Pagels, Elaine, and Karen L. King - Reading Judas

  • Pagnamenta, Peter, and Momoko Williams - Sword and Blossom: A British Officer's Enduring Love for a Japanese Woman

  • Parker, Michael - Hell's Gate

  • Phillips, Christi - The Rossetti Letter

  • Pickens, Andrea - The Spy Wore Silk

  • Plaidy, Jean - The Queen's Secret

  • Plaidy, Jean - Murder Most Royal

  • Plaidy, Jean - St. Thomas's Eve

  • Plaidy, Jean - The Sixth Wife

  • Plaidy, Jean - The Thistle and the Rose

  • Polisar, Lisa - The Ghost of Mary Prairie

  • Poole-Carter, Rosemary - Juliette Ascending

  • Preston, John - The Dig

  • Ryan, Robert - Dying Day

  • Sawyer, Kim Vogel - Where Willows Grow

  • Saylor, Steven - Roma

  • Scarrow, Simon - The Eagle in the Sand

  • Scott, Susan Holloway - Royal Harlot

  • See, Lisa - Peony in Love

  • Seton, Anya - Devil Water

  • Smalley, Peter - Barbary Coast

  • Smith, Craig - The Painted Messiah

  • Smith, Shirley - A Particular Circumstance

  • Smith, Tom - The Crescent City Lynchings

  • Smith, Wilbur - The Quest

  • Sole, Linda - Miscarriage of Justice

  • Staples, Mary Jane - The Soldier's Girl

  • Staples, Mary Jane - Escape to London

  • Tate, Eleanora E. - Celeste's Harlem Renaissance

  • Thomas, Will - The Hellfire Conspiracy

  • Thomsen, Brian, ed. - The Further Adventures of Beowulf

  • Townley, Roderick - The Red Thread

  • Updale, Eleanor - Montmorency's Revenge

  • Vogel, David - Married Life

  • Wallis, Michael - Billy the Kid: The Endless ride

  • Walters, Jennie - Standing in the Shadows

  • Wells, Jess - The Mandrake Broom

  • Westin, Jeane - Lady Merry's Dashing Champion

  • White, Lucy Ann - A Little Blue Jacket

  • White, Michael - Soul Catcher

  • Wilder, Gene - My French Whore

  • Wilding, Valerie - The Queen's Spies

  • Wilson, Ben - Decency and Disorder

  • Wilson, Sandra - The Chalbourne Sapphires

  • Wishart, David - In at the Death

  • Wolf, Joan - The Road to Avalon

  • Wyile, Herb - Speaking in the Past Tense: Canadian Novelists on Writing Historical Fiction

  • Wynn, Patricia - The Motive for the Deed

  • Yizhar, S. - Preliminaries

  • Young, Simon - Farewell Britannia

  • Zamoyski, Adam - Rites of Peace: The Fall of Napoleon and the Congress of Vienna

  • Zeller, Bob, and John Beshears - Jacob's Run: A Mystery of 1860 Wilmington

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