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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.


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Historical Novels Review - Table of Contents
August 2008

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Editorial, Bethany Latham
Historical Fiction Market News, Sarah Johnson
Make War, Not Love: Ken Kreckel consults Jeff Shaara, Steven Pressfield, and others on the trends for historical fiction for men
History and Film: Hannah Sternberg on The Name of the Rose
Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité: Susan Higginbotham interviews Catherine Delors
The Blackstone Key: Doug Kemp interviews Rose Melikan
Andrew Thompson (with Myfanwy Cook) on time and place in Arthurian fiction
jay Dixon profiles Mills & Boon on their centenary
Top Questions to Determine Your Research Style, Susan Higginbotham

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

  • Abrams, Rebecca - Touching Distance

  • Adler, David A. - Don't Talk to Me About the War

  • Admirand, C.H. - Pearl's Redemption

  • Agnon, S. Y. - To This Day

  • Aitken, Rosemary - From Penvarris with Love

  • Alexander, Sally Hobart, and Robert Alexander - She Touched the World

  • Alexander, Tamera - From a Distance

  • Allan, Sue - Restoration Lady

  • Anderson, James - The Affair of the Bloodstained Egg Cosy

  • Anton, Shari - Magic in His Kiss

  • Bahr, Howard - Pelican Road

  • Baluenas, Luis-Anton - For a Sack of Bones

  • Banks, Russell - The Reserve

  • Barker, Ann - The Clerkenwell Conspiracy

  • Bartoi, Vladimir - Alamut

  • Bauman, Natasha - The Disorder of Longing

  • Bell, Albert A., Jr. - The Blood of Caesar

  • Benn, James R. - Blood Alone

  • Bennett, T.J. - The Legacy

  • Bernard, Renee - A Rogue's Game

  • Beverley, Jo - A Lady's Secret

  • Birchall, Diana - Mr. Darcy's Dilemma

  • Blevins, Christine - Midwife of the Blue Ridge

  • Boggs, Johnny D. - Killstraight

  • Bohjalian, Chris - Skeletons at the Feast

  • Bourne, Joanna - My Lord and Spymaster

  • Bowen, Rhys - A Royal Pain

  • Bower, Sarah - The Book of Love

  • Bradshaw, Gillian - The Sun's Bride

  • Brandon, Ruth - Other People's Daughters: The Life and Times of the Governess

  • Breslin, Theresa - The Medici Seal

  • Bruchac, Joseph - March Toward the Thunder

  • Burke, Frances - Windstorm

  • Butler, L.E. - Relief

  • Calderon, Emilio - The Creator's Map

  • Caparros, Martin - Valfierno

  • Carroll, Leslie - Royal Affairs

  • Chadwick, Elizabeth - A Place Beyond Courage

  • Charyn, Jerome - Johnny One-Eye

  • Chase,Loretta - Your Scandalous Ways

  • Chattam, Maxim - The Cairo Diary

  • Cheek, Mavis - Amenable Women

  • Clare, Alys - The Paths of the Air

  • Coffey, Tom - Blood Alley

  • Cox, Mike - The Texas Rangers: Wearing the Cinco Peso, 1821-1900

  • Crockett, Edward John - A Knight's Tale

  • Crosse, Tania - Cherrybrook Rose

  • Crowley, Roger - Empires of the Sea

  • Cuate, Melodie A. - Journey to Gonzalez

  • Cullen, Brian - Seekers of the Chalice

  • Dain, Claudia - The Courtesan's Secret

  • D'Almeida, Sarah - A Death in Gascony

  • Davidson, Andrew - The Gargoyle

  • de Rosnay, Tatiana - Sarah's Key

  • Dickinson, John - The Lightstep

  • Doherty, Paul - Murder's Immortal Mask

  • Downer, Martyn - The Queen's Knight

  • Downing, David - Silesian Station

  • Dunn, Suzannah - The Queen's Sorrow

  • Duran, Meredith - The Duke of Shadows

  • DuVall, Nell - Train to Yesterday

  • Edwards, Selden - The Little Book

  • Elliott, Beth - The Wild Card

  • Emerson, Kathy Lynn - Lethal Legend

  • Enger, Leif - So Brave, Young, and Handsome

  • Epstein, Jennifer Cody - The Painter from Shanghai

  • Erskine, Barbara - The Warrior's Princess

  • Essex, Karen - Stealing Athena

  • Faber, Tony - Faberge's Eggs

  • Falcones, Ildefonso - The Cathedral of the Sea

  • Fern, Tracey E. - Buffalo Music

  • Ferris, Gordon - The Unquiet Heart

  • Field, Ophelia - The Kit-Cat Club

  • Flahive, Jean Mary - Billy Boy

  • Foulds, Adam - The Broken Word

  • Francis, Pauline - Raven Queen

  • Fraser, Sara - The Resurrection Men

  • French, Jackie - A Rose for the Anzac Boys

  • Fuller, Jack - Abbeville

  • Furnivall, Kate - The Red Scarf

  • Furst, Alan - The Spies of Warsaw

  • Gale, Iain - Rules of War

  • Gardner, Sally - The Red Necklace

  • Gemmell, David and Stella - Troy: Fall of Kings

  • Gerber, Robin - Eleanor vs Ike

  • Gifford, Alan - How Far the Road Home

  • Glaeser, Ernest - Class 1902

  • Goddard, Robert - Past Caring

  • Golding, Julia - Black Heart of Jamaica

  • Gooden, Philip A. - The Salisbury Manuscript

  • Gordon-Smith, Dolores - Mad About the Boy?

  • Greenwood, Kerry - Death Before Wicket

  • Greenwood, Leigh - Texas Loving

  • Gregory, Philippa - The Other Queen

  • Gregory, Susanna - The Devil's Disciples

  • Gregson, Julia - East of the Sun

  • Grieve, Roberta - Abigail's Secret

  • Groves, Melody - Arizona War

  • Gruber, Michael - The Book of Air and Shadows

  • Haines, Kathryn Miller - The Winter of Her Discontent

  • Hake, Cathy Marie - Forevermore

  • Hallowell, Janis - She Was

  • Hanbury, Elizabeth - The Paradise Will

  • Hannah, Chris - Missy

  • Hanson, Neil - The First Blitz

  • Harvey, Miles - Painter in a Savage Land

  • Harwood, John - The Séance

  • Herries, Anne - Love and War

  • Hickman, Katie - The Aviary Gate

  • Higley, T.L. - Shadow of Colossus

  • Hill, Suzette A. - Bones in the Belfry

  • Holland, James - The Odin Mission

  • Holmes, Kenneth L. - Best of Covered Wagon Women

  • Holmes, Richard - Fatal Avenue

  • Holmes, Richard - Marlborough: England's Fragile Genius

  • Hooper, Mary - By Royal Command

  • Hopman, Ellen Evert - Priestess of the Forest

  • Hoyt, Elizabeth - To Taste Temptation

  • Hull, Nancy L. - On Rough Seas

  • Hunter, Madeline - Secrets of Surrender

  • Ison, Graham - Hardcastle's Burglar

  • Izner, Claude - The Montmartre Investigation

  • Jackson, James - Pilgrim: The Greatest Crusade

  • Jackson, Jane - Devil's Prize

  • James, Eloisa - Duchess by Night

  • Jego, Yves, and Denis Lepee - The Sun King Rises

  • Johnson, Jeannie - Bitter Harvest

  • Jordan, Hillary - Mudbound

  • Kadare, Ismail - Agamemnon's Daughter

  • Kay, Guy Gavriel - A Song for Arbonne

  • Kent, Kathleen - The Heretic's Daughter

  • Kent, Rebecca - High Marks for Murder

  • Kernaghan, Eileen - The Sarsen Witch

  • King, Peter - Hangman's Corner

  • Kirkwood, Gwen - When the Heather Blooms

  • Klassen, Julie - Lady of Milkweed Manor

  • Lacy, Al and Joanna - A Line in the Sand

  • Lacy, Al and Joanna - Web of Destiny

  • LaFaye, A. - Stella Stands Alone

  • Lane, Janet - Emerald Silk

  • Lawrence, Caroline - Trimalchi's Feast and Other Mini-Mysteries

  • Levy, Marc - Children of Freedom

  • Liebmann-Smith, Richard - The James Boys

  • Lindley, Maureen - The Private Papers of Estern Jewel

  • Lindsay, Johanna - The Devil Who Tamed Her

  • Lott, Bret - Ancient Highway

  • Luckey, William A. - Burn English

  • MacLean, Shona - The Redemption of Alexander Seaton

  • Maguire, Elizabeth - The Open Door

  • Marks, Graham - Snatched

  • Marr, Chris - The Lady of the Manor

  • May, Antoinette - Claudia: Daughter of Rome

  • McGee, James - Rapscallion

  • McIntosh, Pat - The Rough Collier

  • McIntosh, Pat - The Merchant's Mark

  • Means, Laurel - The Long Journey Home

  • Meyer, Carolyn - In Mozart's Shadow

  • Miller, Fenella-Jane - A Debt of Honour

  • Mills, DiAnn - Awaken My Heart

  • Molist, Jorge - The Ring

  • Mortimer, Ian - The Fears of Henry IV

  • Murphy, Caroline P. - Isabella de'Medici

  • Myers, Beverle Graves - The Iron Tongue of Midnight

  • Nicolson, Adam - Earls of Paradise

  • Oldfield, Pamela - The Longest Road

  • Osborne, Mary Pope - Magic Tree House: Valley of the Dinosaurs

  • Osborne, Mary Pope - Magic Tree House: Castle of Mystery

  • Page, Walter Hines - The Southerner

  • Park, Linda Sue - Keeping Score

  • Pearson, Judith L. - The Wolves at the Door: The True Story of America's Greatest Female Spy

  • Pella, Judith - Sister's Choice

  • Perry, Anne - Buckingham Palace Gardens

  • Persico, Joseph E. - Franklin and Lucy

  • Pilkington, John - Rogues' Gold

  • Pitman, Joanna - The Dragon's Trail: The Biography of Raphael's Masterpiece

  • Pope, Barbara Corrado - Cezanne's Quarry

  • Porter, Linda - The First Queen of England

  • Preston, Diana - Cleopatra and Antony

  • Price, Susan - Feasting the Wolf

  • Pulman, Felicity - Lilies for Love

  • Pulman, Felicity - Willows for Weeping

  • Rand, Ken - Pax Dakota

  • Reed, Mary, and Eric Mayer - Seven for a Secret

  • Reeman, Douglas - The Glory Boys

  • Revoyr, Nina - The Age of Dreaming

  • Rinaldi, Ann - Juliet's Moon

  • Roberts, Judson - The Road to Vengeance

  • Rooke, Daphne - Wizards' Country

  • Rooke, Daphne - Ratoons

  • Rooke, Daphne - Mittee

  • Royle, Trevor - Lancaster Against York: The Wars of the Roses and the Foundation of Modern Britain

  • Rushdie, Salman - The Enchantress of Florence

  • Shan, Sa - Alexander and Alestria

  • Sandemo, Margit - Spellbound: The Legend of the Ice People

  • Sansom, C.J. - Revelation

  • Santana, Patricia - Ghosts of El Grullo

  • Sawyer, Kim Vogel - My Heart Remembers

  • Saylor, Steven - The Triumph of Caesar

  • Scarrow, Simon - Centurion

  • Schwab, Sandra - Bewitched

  • Scott, Manda - The Crystal Skull

  • Scott, Regina - La Petite Four

  • Scott, Susan Holloway - The King's Favorite

  • Segre, Gino - Faust in Copenhagen

  • Severin, Tim - Buccaneer

  • Shaara, Jeff - The Steel Wave

  • Shaffer, Mary Ann, and Annie Barrows - The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

  • Simpson, Craig - Dogfight

  • Smalley, Peter - The Hawk

  • Stanley, Kelli - Nox Dormienda

  • Stirling, Jessica - The Fields of Fortune

  • Stoddard, Elizabeth - Two Men

  • Stuart, David E. - Flight of Souls

  • Sutcliff, Rosemary - Sword at Sunset

  • Tearne, Roma - Bone China

  • Thomas, Sherry - Delicious

  • Thorne, Una - Workhouse Lass

  • Turnbull, Ann - Mary Ann and Miss Mozart

  • Unger, Miles J. - Magnifico: The Brilliant Life and Violent Times of Lorenzo de' Medici

  • Venkatraman, Padma - Climbing the Stairs

  • Vercel, Roger - Captain Conan

  • Verne, Jules - The Golden Volcano

  • Wein, Elizabeth E. - The Empty Kingdom

  • Westwood, Jennifer, and Jacqueline Simpson - The Penguin Book of Ghosts

  • Wideman, John Edgar - Fanon

  • Wilder, Gene - The Woman Who Wouldn't

  • Williams, Niall - John

  • Wilson, Budge - Before Green Gables

  • Wolff, Veronica - Sword of the Highlands

  • Wood, Valerie - Fallen Angels

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