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Features this issue:

Editorial: Confessions of a Fangirl, Bethany Latham
Historical Fiction Market News, Sarah Johnson
Letter to the Editor, Kim Murphy
History and Film: Cinema Gloriana, Queen Elizabeth I in Film, Bethany Latham
Chile, Conquest, Courage, and Love: An Interview with Isabel Allende (cover story)
Welshmen in Tights? An Interview with Stephen R. Lawhead
A Forgotten Pandemic: Mary Sharratt interviews Reina James about This Time of Dying
A Tale Retold: The Fairytales and Fiction of Donna Jo Napoli, Nancy Castaldo
The Historical Fiction of New American Library: A Publisher Profile, Lucienne Boyce

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

• Adair, Suzanne - Paper Woman

• Aidan, Pamela - These Three Remain

• Alexander, Tamera - Revealed

• Allan, Sue - The Mayflower Maid

• Allende, Isabel - Ines of My Soul

• Anton, Shari - Twilight Magic

• Archer, Zoe - Love in a Bottle

• Archibald, Malcolm - Pryde's Rock

• Aston, Elizabeth - The Second Mrs. Darcy

• Avery, Ellis - The Teahouse Fire

• Baca, Ana - Mama Fela's Girls

• Bailey, Tom - Cotton Song

• Baker, Virginia - Jack Knife

• Baldwin Smith, Lacey - English History Made Brief, Irreverent, and Pleasurable

• Baratz-Logsted, Lauren - Vertigo

• Barone, Sam - Dawn of Empire

• Barrett, Susan - The Inconstant Husband

• Barron, Stephanie - Jane and the Barque of Frailty

• Bauman, Janina - Beyond these Walls: Escaping the Warsaw Ghetto

• Baxter, Stephen - Emperor

• Beard, G.S. - Mr Midshipman Fury

• Bernardi, Adria - Openwork

• Birdsell, Donna - Wolf's Temptation

• Bloch, R. Howard - A Needle in the Right Hand of God

• Block, Brett Ellen - The Lightning Rule

• Bodanis, David - Passionate Minds

• Boggs, Johnny D. - The Hart Brand

• Boyd, James - Drums

• Boyne, John - Next of Kin

• Breene, Leslee - Leadville Lady

• Bridges, Kate - The Commander

• Brisbin, Terri - The Maid of Lorne

• Butterworth, Alex, and Ray Laurence - Pompeii: The Living City

• Cannon, Michael - Lachlan's War

• Carter, W. Hodding - Flushed: How the Plumber Saved Civilization

• Cavendish, Grace - The Lady Grace Mysteries: Gold

• Chadwick, Elizabeth - The Scarlet Lion

• Challis, Joanna - Eye of the Serpent

• Charles, Edward - In the Shadow of Lady Jane

• Clinch, John - Finn

• Cline, Edward - Sparrowhawk v.6: War

• Cornwell, Bernard - Sharpe's Fury

• Cozarinsky, Edgardo - The Moldavian Pimp

• Crimmins, Jerry - Fort Dearborn

• Crooks, Pam - Wanted!

• Crossley-Holland, Kevin - Gatty's Tale

• Crowther, Yasmin - The Saffron Kitchen

• D'Almeida, Sarah - Death of a Musketeer

• Damrosch, David - The Buried Book: The Loss and Rediscovery of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh

• Dando-Collins, Stephen - Mark Antony's Heroes

• Davidson, Carolyn - Redemption

• Dayus, Kathleen - The Girl from Hockley: Growing Up in Working-Class Birmingham

• Dennis, Jeanne, and Sheila Seifert - Marta's Promise

• Deutsch, Stacia, and Rhody Cohon - Blast to the Past: Ben Franklin's Fame

• Doherty, P.C. - Assassins of Isis

• Doherty, Paul - The Waxman Murders

• Donati, Sara - Queen of Swords

• Drake, Shannon - Beguiled

• Duble, Kathleen Benner - Hearts of Iron

• Dumas, Alexandre, trans. Richard Pevear - The Three Musketeers

• Duncklee, John - Bull by the Tale

• Dunn, Suzannah - The Sixth Wife

• Edge, Arabella - The God of Spring

• Ehrenreich, Barbara - Dancing in the Streets

• Eldridge, Jim - Flying Ace

• Ernst, Kathleen - Hearts of Stone

• Etulain, Richard W. - Beyond the Missouri: The Story of the American West

• Felber, Edith - Queen of Shadows

• Fernandez-Armesto, Felipe - Pathfinders: A Global History of Exploration

• Flood, Charles Bracelen - Grant and Sherman: The Friendship that Won the Civil War

• Foss, Clive - The Tyrants

• Franklin, Ariana - Mistress of the Art of Death

• Gemmell, David - Troy: Shield of Thunder

• Gill, Elizabeth - The Secret 

• Gobbell, John J. - A Call to Colors

• Golding, William - To the Ends of the Earth

• Gonzalez, G.W. - Pinnick Kinnick Hill

• Graham, Laurie - Gone with the Windsors

• Grange, Amanda - Mr Knightley's Diary

• Grant, Elizabeth, of Rothiemurchus - Memoirs of a Highland Lady

• Graves, Robert - Count Belisarius

• Green, Hilary - Never Say Goodbye

• Gregory, Philippa - A Respectable Trade

• Grey, Christopher - Leonardo's Shadow

• Groe, Diana - Erinsong

• Grosser, Samantha - Another Time and Place

• Gylanders, S.C. - The Better Angels of Our Nature

• Hall, Sarah - Haweswater

• Hardy, LeAnne - Glastonbury Tor

• Hardyment, Christina - Malory: The Life and Times of King Arthur's Chronicler

• Harper, Karen - The Last Princess of Wales

• Harris, C.S. - When Gods Die

• Harrod-Eagles, Cynthia - The Burning Roses

• Hawksley, Lucinda - Katey: The Life and Loves of Dickens' Artist Daughter

• Herries, Anne - The Seeds of Sin

• Holby, Cindy - Whirlwind

• Hooper, Mary - The Remarkable Life and Times of Eliza Rose

• Hope, Christopher - My Mother's Lovers

• Howard, Audrey - Rose Alley

• HRH Princess Michael of Kent - Crowned in a Far Country

• Hunt, Angela - Magdalene

• Hunter, Madeline - The Rules of Seduction

• Iggulden, Conn - Wolf of the Plain / Genghis

• Jakes, John - The Gods of Newport

• Jeffries, Sabrina, et al - The School for Heiresses

• Johnson, Jeannie - Loving Enemies

• Jones, Catherine - Eye of the Storm

• Karr, Shirley - Confessions of a Viscount

• Kay, Guy Gavriel - Ysabel

• Kehlmann, Daniel - Measuring the World

• Kingsbury, Kate - Slay Bells

• Kittredge, William - The Willow Field

• Klages, Ellen - The Green Glass Sea

• Krist, Gary - The White Cascade: The Great Northern Railway Disaster and America's Deadliest Avalanche

• Kudlinski, Kathleen V. - My Lady Pocahontas

• Larson, Kirby - Hattie Big Sky

• Leoni, Giulio - The Third Heaven Conspiracy / The Mosaic Crimes

• Long, Julie Anne - Ways to Be Wicked

• Longfellow, Ki - The Secret Magdalene

• Lowenthal, Michael - Charity Girl

• Lugovskaya, Nina - I Want to Live: The Diary of a Young Girl in Stalin's Russia

• Macomber, Robert N. - An Affair of Honor

• Maine, David - The Book of Samson

• Manfredi, Valerio Massimo - The Tower

• Marillier, Juliet - Blade of Fortrui

• Marston, Edward - The Railway Detective

• Marston, Edward - The Excursion Train

• Mate, Ferenc - Ghost Sea

• Mathews, Francine - The Alibi Club

• McCaughrean, Geraldine - Peter Pan in Scarlet

• McNeill, Elisabeth - Turn of the Tide

• Meyer, Kai - The Water Mirror

• Michaels, Kasey - Beware of Virtuous Women

• Miles, J.L. - Cold Rock River

• Miller, Fenella-Jane - A Dissembler

• Miller, Judith - Daylight Comes

• Mills, Mark - The Savage Garden

• Minkoff, George Robert - The Weight of Smoke: A Novel of the Jamestown Colony

• Monroe, Catherine - The King's Nun

• Morgan, Philippa - Chaucer and the Doctor of Physic

• Morris, R.N. - A Gentle Axe

• Moser, Nancy - Mozart's Sister

• Muir, Margaret - The Twisting Vine

• Munro, Alice - The View from Castle Rock

• Neal, Bill - Getting Away with Murder on the Texas Frontier: Notorious Killings and Celebrated Trials

• Norman, Diana - The Sparks Fly Upward

• O'Banyon, Constance - Hawk's Pursuit

• O'Brien, Anne - The Runaway Heiress

• O'Farrell, Maggie - The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox

• Ogle, Maureen - Ambitious Brew

• O'Neill, Gilda - The Good Old Days: Crime, Murder, and Mayhem in Victorian London

• Owen, James A. - Here, There Be Dragons

• Parker, I.J. - Black Arrow

• Parr, Delia - A Hearth in Candlewood

• Penney, Stef - The Tenderness of Wolves

• Perry, Anne - A Christmas Secret

• Peterson, Tracie - Under the Northern Lights

• Phillips, Michael - A Dream of Life

• Pressfield, Steven - The Afghan Campaign

• Quinn, Paula - Lord of Seduction

• Reese, James - The Witchery

• Richardson, V.A. - The Moneylender's Daughter

• Riera, Carmen - In the Last Blue

• Riley, Judith Merkle - In Pursuit of the Green Lion

• Riley, Judith Merkle - The Water Devil

• Rivers, Francine - The Prophet

• Rivers, William James - Eunice

• Rock, Joanne - The Knight's Courtship

• Rohan, Zina - The Officer's Daughter

• Rosenblum, Lisa Pearl - A Day of Small Beginnings

• Rosenthal, Pam - The Slightest Provocation

• Ross, Josephine - Jane Austen's Guide to Good Manners: Compliments, Characters & Horrible Blunders

• Rowland, Laura Joh - Red Chrysanthemum

• Rushforth, Peter - A Dead Language

• Ryan, Nan - Dearest Enemy

• Sampson, Fay - The Land of Angels

• Santiago, Eduardo - Tomorrow They Will Kiss

• Sayres, Meghan Nuttall - Anahita's Woven Riddle

• Schaub, Christine - The Longing Season

• Schreiner, Samuel A., Jr. - The Concord Quartet

• Scott, Joanna Catherine - The Road from Chapel Hill

• Seton, Anya - The Winthrop Woman

• Shaara, Jeff - The Rising Tide

• Shields, Jody - The Crimson Portrait

• Snelling, Lauraine - A Promise for Ellie

• Soliman, Wendy - Duty's Destiny

• Spence, Alan - The Pure Land

• Spence, Fara - Black Water Born

• Stacy, Judith - Jared's Runaway Woman

• Stephen, Martin - The Rebel Heart

• Stockwin, Julian - Command

• Stone, R.W. - Trail Hand

• Stott, Rebecca - Ghostwalk

• Strauss, Barry - The Trojan War: A New History

• Sundaresan, Indu - The Splendor of Silence

• Swerling, Beverly - City of Glory

• Sypeck, Jeff - Becoming Charlemagne

• Thoene, Bodie and Brock - Fifth Seal

• Thomas, Jodi - Texas Rain

• Thomson, Cindy - Brigid of Ireland

• Turnbull, Ann - Forged in the Fire

• Turner, Frederick - Redemption

• Unsworth, Barry - The Ruby in Her Navel

• Vida, Nina - The Texicans

• Wait, Lea - Finest Kind

• Wall, Wilma - The Jade Bracelet

• Waterfield, Robin - Xenophon's Retreat: Greece, Persia, and the End of the Golden Age

• Weber, Caroline - Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution

• Wendel, Tim - Castro's Curveball

• Williams, Ben Ames - A House Divided

• Willig, Lauren - The Deception of the Emerald Ring

• Wilson, Diane Lee - Firehorse

• Worth, Sandra - The Rose of York: Fall from Grace

• Yarbro, Chelsea Quinn - Roman Dusk

• Zeldis, Chayym - Brothers

• Zinsser, Judith P. - La Dame d'Esprit

• Zusak, Markus - The Book Thief

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