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Historical Novels Review - Table of Contents
February 2008

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Editorial: Icky... but Fascinating, Bethany Latham
Historical Fiction Market News, Sarah Johnson
Forensic Practice in Ancient and Medieval Times, Bernard Knight (cover story)
Strange Bedfellows: Historical Fiction and Forensic Medicine.  Bethany Latham interviews Ariana Franklin, C. S. Harris, Lawrence Goldstone, and Tess Gerritsen
Shades of Grey: William Thornton interviews Geoffrey S. Edwards
Historical Fiction Takes On the Bard: Susan Higginbotham talks to David Blixt, Susan Fraser King, and Catherine Wells
Twelve Simple Rules for how not to write Jane Austen Sequels, Susan Higginbotham
 

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

  • Albert, Susan Wittig - The Tale of Hawthorn House

  • Alexander, Tasha - Elizabeth: The Golden Age

  • Allan, Sue - Jamestown Woman

  • Armstrong, Derek - The Last Troubadour

  • Arpaia, Bruno - The Angel of History

  • Ash, Maureen - The Alehouse Murders

  • Atkinson, Rick - The Day of Battle

  • Austin, Lynn - A Proper Pursuit

  • Bailey, Hilary - Frankenstein's Bride

  • Barker, Pat - Life Class

  • Barron, Stephanie - A Flaw in the Blood

  • Bennett, Veronica - Cassandra's Sister

  • Bernard, Renee - Madame's Deception

  • Birch, Carol - Scapegallows

  • Blume, Lesley M.M. - Tennyson

  • Bostwick, Marie - On Wings of the Morning

  • Bourne, Joanna - The Spymaster's Lady

  • Bradford, Barbara Taylor - The Heir

  • Brightwell, Emily - Mrs Jeffries and the Feast of St. Stephen

  • Brooks, Geraldine - People of the Book

  • Brown, J.P.S. - The World in Pancho's Eyes

  • Brown, Laurie - Hundreds of Years to Reform a Rake

  • Browner, Jesse - The Uncertain Hour

  • Bryant, Jen - Ringside, 1925: Views from the Scopes Trial

  • Bull, Emma - Territory:  Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday and Ike Clanton

  • Cavendish, Grace - The Lady Grace Mysteries: Haunted

  • Cheng, Andrea - Eclipse

  • Church, Forrest - So Help Me God: The Founding Fathers and the First Great Battle Over Church and State

  • Cleverly, Barbara - Folly du Jour

  • Cooper, Susan - Dawn of Fear

  • Cote, Lyn - Blessed Assurance

  • Coulter, Catherine - Wizard's Daughter

  • Courtenay, Bryce - Whitethorn

  • Crawford, Alan Pell - Twilight at Monticello

  • Curran, M.F.W. - The Secret War

  • Cussler, Clive - The Chase

  • Custalow, Dr. Linwood "Little Bear", and Angela L. Daniel - The True Story of Pocahontas: The Other Side of History

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

  • Darnell, John Coleman, and Colleen Manassa - Tutankhamun's Armies

  • Dawkins, Jane - More Letters from Pemberley

  • Delingpole, James - Coward on the Beach

  • Delors, Catherine - Mistress of the Revolution

  • Dennison, Matthew - The Last Princess: The Devoted Life of Queen Victoria's Youngest Daughter

  • Desjardin, Thomas A. - Through a Howling Wilderness:  Benedict Arnold’s March to Quebec 1775

  • DeWitt, Dave - Avenging Victorio

  • Dickason, Christie - The Principessa

  • Dillard, Annie - The Maytrees

  • Divakaruni, Chitra Banerjee - The Palace of Illusions

  • Dobbs, Michael - Never Surrender: A Novel of Winston Churchill

  • Donnelly, Jennifer - The Winter Rose

  • Downer, Lesley - The Last Concubine

  • Draper, Sharon M. - Fire from the Rock

  • Druett, Joan - Deadly Shoals

  • Duey, Kathleen - Hoofbeats: Silence and Lily, 1773

  • Dumas, Alexandre - The Last Cavalier

  • Duncan, Glen - The Bloodstone Papers

  • Dunn, Carola - The Bloody Tower

  • Durbin, William - The Winter War

  • Elliott, Paul - The Last Legionary

  • Ellis, Joseph J. - American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic

  • Elphinstone, Margaret - Light

  • Elwork, Paul - The Tea House

  • Elyot, Amanda - All for Love

  • Epperson, Tom - The Kind One

  • Eslava Galan, Juan - The Mule

  • Flynn, Katie - Forgotten Dreams

  • Foley, Gaelen - Her Secret Fantasy

  • Follett, Ken - World Without End

  • Fox, Julia - Jane Boleyn: The True Story of the Infamous Lady Rochford

  • Franklin, Ariana - The Serpent's Tale

  • Fraser, George MacDonald - The Reavers

  • Fulmer, David - The Blue Door

  • Gallico, Paul - Snow Goose

  • Garlock, Dorothy - A Week from Sunday

  • Gaspar de Alba, Alicia - Calligraphy of the Witch

  • Gedge, Pauline - The Eagle and the Raven

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

  • Gerritsen, Tess - The Bone Garden

  • Glass, Linzi - Ruby Red

  • Golding, Julia - The Diamond of Drury Lane

  • Goldstone, Lawrence - The Anatomy of Deception

  • Goring, Rosemary, ed. - Scotland: the Autobiography

  • Graham, Janice - The Tailor's Daughter

  • Gray, John Maclachlan - Not Quite Dead

  • Greenwood, Kerry - Blood and Circuses

  • Gregory, Susanna - The Butcher of Smithfield

  • Grove, Vicki - Rhiannon

  • Hake, Cathy Marie - Fancy Pants

  • Hamamura, John - Color of the Sea

  • Hamley, Dennis - Without Warning: Ellen's Story, 1914-1918

  • Hantover, Jeffrey - The Jewel Trader of Pegu

  • Harris, C.S. - Why Mermaids Sing

  • Harrod-Eagles, Cynthia - The Measure of Days

  • Hart, Lenore - Becky: The Life and Loves of Becky Thatcher

  • Heath, Sandra - The Pilfered Plume

  • Henderson, Bruce - Down to the Sea: An Epic Story of Naval Disaster and Heroism in World War II

  • Herring, Peg - Macbeth's Niece

  • Heyer, Georgette - Cotillion

  • Heyer, Georgette - An Infamous Army

  • Hill, Lawrence - Someone Knows My Name

  • Hockensmith, Steve - The Black Dove

  • Holdstock, Robert - The Broken Kings

  • Hostetter, Joyce Moyer - Blue

  • Humphreys, Chris - Vendetta

  • Iagnemma, Karl - The Expeditions

  • Illinik, C.J. - Najila

  • James, Syrie - The Lost Memoirs of Jane Austen

  • Jameson, W.C. - Beating the Devil

  • Kakar, Sudhir - The Seeker

  • Kelly, Leisha - Till Morning Is Nigh

  • Kershaw, Stephen - A Brief Guide to the Greek Myths

  • Khoury, Raymond - Sanctuary

  • King, Laurie R. - Touchstone

  • King, Susan Fraser - Lady Macbeth

  • Kingman, Peg - Not Yet Drown'd

  • Kingsbury, Kate - Shrouds of Holly

  • Klein, Lisa - Ophelia

  • Kukla, Jon - Mr Jefferson's Women

  • LaHaye, Tim, and Jerry B. Jenkins - The Jesus Chronicles: Mark's Story

  • Lake, Deryn - Death in Hellfire

  • Laker, Rosalind - The Golden Tulip

  • Lambdin, Dewey - Troubled Waters

  • Landsman, Anne - The Rowing Lesson

  • Laurens, Stephanie - Where the Heart Leads

  • Lazar, Zachary - Sway

  • Lessman, Julie - A Passion Most Pure

  • Lewis, Hilda - Wife to Charles II

  • Ludlow, Jack - The Pillars of Rome

  • Lycett, Andrew - The Man Who Created Sherlock Holmes

  • MacLaren, Sharlene - Loving Liza Jane

  • MacLaren, Sharlene - Sarah, My Beloved

  • Macomber, Robert N. - A Different Kind of Honor

  • Maltman, Thomas - The Night Birds

  • Manhold, John H. - El Tigre

  • Marshall, Joseph M. - Hundred in the Hand

  • McBride, James - Song Yet Sung

  • McCaig, Donald - Rhett Butler's People

  • McCammon, Robert - The Queen of Bedlam

  • McCullough, Colleen - Antony and Cleopatra

  • McGill, John - The Most Glorified Strip of Bunting

  • McIntosh, Pat - The Nicholas Feast

  • McKenzie, Nancy - Guinevere's Gift

  • McPherson, Catriona - Bury Her Deep

  • Mercury, Karen - Strangely Wonderful

  • Mertz, Barbara - Temples, Tombs, and Hieroglyphs: A Popular History of Ancient Egypt

  • Miles, Jonathan - The Wreck of the Medusa

  • Miller, Judith - Whispers Along the Rails

  • Miller, Stephen - The Last Train to Kazan

  • Mills, Elizabeth Shown - Evidence Explained: Citing History Sources from Artifacts to Cyberspace

  • Miner, Rosemary - Once Upon a Time to Die For

  • Minkoff, George Robert - The Dragons of the Storm

  • Morgan, Kathleen - As High As the Heavens

  • Morgan, Kathleen - A Fire Within

  • Moser, Nancy - Just Jane

  • Moules, Joan M. - The Straw Halter

  • Mullany, Janet - The Rules of Gentility

  • Murphy, Yannick - Signed, Mata Hari

  • Newbery, Linda - Andie's Moon

  • Newman, Sharan - The Shanghai Tunnel

  • Nicholl, Charles - The Lodger: Shakespeare on Silver Street

  • O'Brien, Patricia - Harriet and Isabella

  • O'Farrell, John - An Utterly Impartial History of Britain

  • Pattison, Eliot - Bone Rattler

  • Pearce, Michael - A Dead Man in Tangier

  • Peet, Mal - The Penalty

  • Perry, Anne - A Christmas Beginning

  • Peters, Maureen - The Scent of Jasmine

  • Peterson, Tracie - A Lady of High Regard

  • Pickens, Andrea - Seduced by a Spy

  • Plaidy, Jean - The Reluctant Queen

  • Plaidy, Jean - Loyal in Love

  • Poole-Carter, Rosemary - Women of Magdalene

  • Pritchett, Michael - The Melancholy Fate of Captain Lewis

  • Rabin, Staton - The Curse of the Romanovs

  • Raybourn, Deanna - Silent in the Sanctuary

  • Rediker, Marcus - The Slave Ship: A History

  • Richards, Linda L. - Death Was the Other Woman

  • Robbins, David L. - The Betrayal Game

  • Roberts, David - Something Wicked

  • Roberts, Gary L. - Doc Holliday: The Life and Legend

  • Roberts, John Maddox - SPQR XI:  Under Vesuvius

  • Roberts, Michele - The Secret Gospel of Mary Magdalene

  • Rowland, Laura Joh - The Snow Empress

  • Russell, Christopher - Smugglers

  • Russell, Gerri - Warrior's Bride

  • Russell, S. Thomas - Under Enemy Colors

  • Sandbrook, Dominic - White Heat: A History of Britain in the Swinging Sixties, 1964-1970

  • Sansom, C.J. - Winter in Madrid

  • Sauerwein, Leigh - Song for Eloise

  • Schalesky, Marlo - Veil of Fire

  • Schwabach, Karen - The Hope Chest

  • Schwartz, John Burnham - The Commoner

  • Seton, Anya - My Theodosia

  • Sheers, Owen - Resistance

  • Sickels, Noelle - The Medium

  • Slatton, Traci L. - The Immortal

  • Smith, Anne Easter - Daughter of York

  • Snelling, Lauraine - Sophie's Dilemma

  • Songini, Marc - The Lost Fleet:   A Yankee Whaler’s Struggle Against the Confederate Navy and Arctic Disaster

  • Speed, John - Tiger Claws

  • Stuckart, Diane A.S. - The Queen's Gambit

  • Sword, Wiley - Courage Under Fire:  Profiles in Bravery from the Battlefields of the Civil War

  • Tallis, Frank - Vienna Blood

  • Tallman, Shirley - The Cliff House Strangler

  • Taylor, D.J. - Bright Young People

  • Taylor, Theodore - The Bomb

  • Temple, Judy Nolte - Baby Doe Tabor: The Madwoman in the Cabin

  • Terrell, Heather - The Chrysalis

  • Thompson, E.V. - Though the Heavens May Fall

  • Tirrell, Art - The Secret Ever Keeps

  • Turner, Nancy E. - The Star Garden

  • Vallgren, Carl-Johan - Documents Concerning Rubashov the Gambler

  • Varnes, Paul - Black Creek: The Taking of Florida

  • Waters, Paul - Of Merchants and Heroes

  • Wemmlinger, Raymond - Booth's Daughter

  • White, Edmund - Hotel de Dream

  • Whitfield, Anne - A Noble Place

  • Whyte, Jack - Standard of Honor

  • Wilaon, Sandra - Fashion's Lady

  • Williams, Marcia - Archie's War: My Scrapbook from 1914-1918

  • Willig, Lauren - The Seduction of the Crimson Rose

  • Wilson, Derek - Out of the Storm: The Life and Legacy of Martin Luther

  • Winspear, Jacqueline - An Incomplete Revenge

  • Woodiwiss, Kathleen E. - Everlasting

  • Worth, Sandra - Lady of the Roses

  • Wyss, Thelma Hatch - A Tale of Gold

  • Ylvisaker, Anne - Little Klein

  • Yolen, Jane, and Robert J Harris - The Rogues

  • Zusak, Markus - The Book Thief

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