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Historical Novels Review - Table of Contents
May 2007

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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.

Features this issue:

Editorial: Get Ready to Celebrate, Bethany Latham
Historical Fiction Market News, Sarah Johnson
Letters to the Editor, Nicola Cornick and Anonymous
History and Film: Big Screen Rome, Sandra Garside-Neville
Ruso, The Reluctant Roman Gum-Sandal: Sarah Cuthbertson interviews Ruth Downie (cover story)
Evangelizing for the Classics: Lucienne Boyce interviews Caroline Lawrence
A New Revolution: Mary Sharratt interviews Edward Cline and Suzanne Adair
The Seduction of Research: Sarah Bower interviews Barbara Ewing
Michael Pearce on Crafting the Historical Whodunit, edited by Patrika Salmon

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

  • Akunin, Boris - Pelagia and the Black Monk

  • Akunin, Boris - Sister Pelagia and the White Bulldog

  • Ali, Thalassa - Companions of Paradise

  • Alleyn, Susanne - A Treasury of Regret

  • Amis, Martin - House of Meetings

  • Andersen, Kurt - Heyday

  • Arruda, Suzanne - Stalking Ivory

  • Arslan, Antonia - Skylark Farm

  • Askew, Rilla - Harpsong

  • Aston, Elizabeth - The True Darcy Spirit

  • Austin, Lynn - A Woman's Place

  • Balogh, Mary - Simply Magic

  • Barker, Ann - A Gift for a Rake

  • Barnard, Frank - Band of Eagles

  • Bauer, Marion Dane - Killing Miss Kitty and Other Sins

  • Benson, Ann - The Physician's Tale

  • Bingham, Charlotte - The White Marriage

  • Blackwell, Elise - The Unnatural History of Cypress Parish

  • Blume, Lesley M.M. - The Rising Star of Rusty Nail

  • Bock, Dennis - The Communist's Daughter

  • Boggs, Johnny D. - Northfield

  • Boudreau, Robert Louis - Fandango's Gold

  • Bower, Sarah - The Needle in the Blood

  • Boyne, John - The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

  • Bryant, Sarah - Sand Daughter

  • Bull, Bartle - China Star

  • Campbell, Broos - The War of Knives

  • Carroll, Steven - The Lovers' Room

  • Cartwright, Justin - The Song Before It Is Sung

  • Chaikin, Linda Lee - The Midwife of St. Petersburg

  • Chambers, Joy - For Freedom

  • Champlin, Tim - Cold Cache

  • Chevalier, Tracy - Burning Bright

  • Clark, Clare - The Nature of Monsters

  • Clary, David A. - Adopted Son: Washington, Lafayette, and the Friendship that Saved the Revolution

  • Colvin, Clare - Masque of the Gonzagas

  • Cook, Gloria - A Whisper of Life

  • Cornwell, Bernard - Lords of the North

  • Costello, Peter - Conan Doyle, Detective

  • Courtenay, Bryce - Brother Fish

  • Cuate, Melodie A. - Journey to the Alamo

  • Cunningham, Elizabeth - Magdalen Rising

  • Dalia, Albert A. - Dream of the Dragon Pool: A Daoist Quest

  • Davies, David Stuart - Forests of the Night

  • Davis, Anna - The Shoe Queen

  • de Juan, Jose Luis - This Breathing World

  • Dickinson, David - Death Called to the Bar

  • Dickinson, David - Death on the Nevskii Prospekt

  • Diedrichs, Gary - The Earthquake Shack: A Sausalito Love Story

  • Dietrich, William - Napoleon's Pyramids

  • Dowswell, Paul - Prison Ship

  • Drake, Nick - Nefertiti

  • Dunlap, Susanne - Liszt's Kiss

  • Dyja, Thomas - The Moon in Our Hands

  • Edge, Arabella - The God of Spring

  • Elyot, Amanda - Too Great a Lady

  • Erle, Joanna - The Devil's Dance

  • Etzioni-Halevy, Eva - The Garden of Ruth

  • Ewing, Barbara - The Mesmerist

  • Feather, Jane - A Wicked Gentleman

  • Fenech, Karen - Betrayal

  • Foster, Sharon Ewell - Abraham's Well

  • Frazer, Margaret - The Sempster's Tale

  • Frazer, Margaret - The Traitor's Tale

  • Frost, Mark - The Second Objective

  • Fulmer, David - The Dying Crapshooter's Blues

  • Garland, David - Valley Forge

  • Gear, Kathleen O'Neal, and W. Michael Gear - People of the Nightland

  • Gingrich, Newt, and William Fortschen - Pearl Harbor: A Novel of December 8

  • Gohlke, Cathy - William Henry is a Fine Name

  • Goldstone, Nancy - Four Queens

  • Goodman, Martin - Rome & Jerusalem

  • Gouge, Louise M. - Then Came Faith

  • Grange, Amanda - Stormcrow Castle

  • Green, Hilary - Now is the Hour

  • Gregory, Susanna - Blood on the Strand

  • Grimbert, Philippe - The Secret

  • Gristwood, Sarah - Elizabeth & Leicester

  • Groves, Annie - Some Sunny Day

  • Haeger, Diane - The Perfect Royal Mistress

  • Haines, Carolyn - Fever Moon

  • Halam, Ann - Snakehead

  • Hall, Alaric - Elves in Anglo-Saxon England

  • Hambly, Barbara - Patriot Hearts: A Novel of the Founding Mothers

  • Harding, Georgina - The Solitude of Thomas Cave

  • Harry, Lilian - A Stranger in Burracombe

  • Heath, Sandra - A Perfect Likeness

  • Heath, Sandra - An Impossible Confession

  • Heyer, Georgette - Footsteps in the Dark

  • Heyer, Georgette - Penhallow

  • Heyer, Georgette - The Unfinished Clue

  • Heyer, Georgette - Why Shoot a Butler?

  • Hickey, Elizabeth - The Wayward Muse

  • Hodgson, Ken - Season of the Burning Souls

  • Holeman, Linda - The Moonlit Cage

  • Hutchinson, Robert - Thomas Cromwell: The Rise and Fall of Henry VIII's Most Notorious Minister

  • Irwin, Robert - For Lust of Knowing: The Orientalists and Their Enemies

  • Izner, Claud - Murder on the Eiffel Tower

  • James, Eloisa - Kiss Me, Annabel

  • James, Margaret - The Long Way Home

  • Jeal, Tim - Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer

  • Jecks, Michael - The Malice of Unnatural Death

  • Jenoff, Pam - The Kommandant's Girl

  • Jewell, Helen M. - Women in Late Medieval and Reformation Europe 1200-1550

  • Johns, Derek - Wintering

  • Joyce, Lydia - Voices of the Night

  • Kadohata, Cynthia - Cracker! The Best Dog in Vietnam

  • King, Rachael - The Sound of Butterflies

  • Kirkpatrick, Jane - A Tendering in the Storm

  • Kohler, Sheila - Bluebird, or the Invention of Happiness

  • LaHaye, Tim, and Jerry B. Jenkins - John's Story: The Last Eyewitness

  • Lasky, Kathryn - The Last Girls of Pompeii

  • Lawrence, Caroline - The Sirens of Surrentum

  • Lee, Jade - Cornered Tigress

  • Leeds, Constance - The Silver Cup

  • Leigh, Ana - His Boots Under Her Bed

  • Liesche, Margit - Lipstick and Lies

  • Lively, Penelope - Consequences

  • Lowe, Keith - Inferno: The Devastation of Hamburg, 1943

  • Luckey, William A. - The English Horses

  • Lyons, Mary E. - Letters from a Slave Boy

  • Lyons, Mary E. - Letters from a Slave Girl

  • MacMurray, Rose - Afternoons with Emily

  • MacPherson, Andrea - Beyond the Blue

  • Mailer, Norman - The Castle in the Forest

  • Mailman, Erika - Woman of Ill Fame

  • Malessa, Bryan - The Flight

  • Mallinson, Allan - Man of War

  • Marai, Sandor - The Rebels

  • Markovits, Benjamin - Imposture

  • May, Antoinette - Pilate's Wife

  • McCaig, Donald - Canaan

  • McCann, Colum - Zoli

  • McDuffie, Susan - A Mass for the Dead

  • McGee, James - Resurrectionist

  • Meade, Amy Patricia - Ghost of a Chance

  • Melman, Peter Charles - Landsman

  • Meyer, Carolyn - Duchessina

  • Meyer, Kai - The Stone Light

  • Miller, Fenella-Jane - The Mesalliance

  • Milton, Giles - Edward Trencom's Nose: A Novel of History, Dark Intrigue, and Cheese

  • Min, Anchee - The Last Empress

  • Morrow, Baker - A Tropical Place Like That: Stories of Mexico

  • Mujica, Barbara - Sister Teresa

  • Murphy, Kim - Whispers from the Grave

  • Myers, Amy - Murder, 'Orrible Murder

  • Napier, William - Attila: The Gathering of the Storm

  • Navarro, Julia - The Brotherhood of the Holy Shroud

  • Neillands, Robin - The Death of Glory

  • Olds, Bruce - The Moments Lost: A Midwest Pilgrim's Progress

  • Packard, Jerrold - The Lincolns in the White House

  • Parker, Robert B. - Edenville Owls

  • Parot, Jean-Francois - The Chatelet Apprentice

  • Pastor, Ben - The Water Thief

  • Pearce, Michael - A Dead Man in Athens

  • Peet, Mal - Tamar

  • Pendle, George - The Remarkable Millard Fillmore

  • Perez-Reverte, Arturo - The Sun Over Breda

  • Perry, Anne - We Shall Not Sleep

  • Peters, Maureen - Vashti

  • Peterson, Tracie - Whispers of Winter

  • Pfarrer, Chuck - Killing Che

  • Phillips, Arthur - Angelica

  • Phillips, Michael - Never Too Late

  • Pinol, Albert Sanchez - Cold Skin

  • Quick, Amanda - The River Knows

  • Redhill, Michael - Consolation

  • Rinaldi, Ann - Come Juneteenth

  • Roberts, David - The Quality of Mercy

  • Roberts, Katherine - I Am the Great Horse

  • Rogov, Daniel - Rogues, Writers, and Whores

  • Rolin, Olivier - Paper Tiger

  • Rose, Joel - The Blackest Bird

  • Rubin, Susan Goldman - Haym Salomon: American Patriot

  • Ryan, Shawna Yang - Locke 1928

  • Sanchona - A Family of Strangers

  • Sawyer, Cheryl - The Winter Prince

  • Scarrow, Simon - The Eagle's Prophecy

  • Schmidt, Gary D. - The Wednesday Wars

  • Seebohm, Caroline - The Innocent

  • Sides, Hampton - Blood and Thunder

  • Siegel, Robert Anthony - All Will Be Revealed

  • Simmons, Dan - The Terror

  • Simpson, Craig - Resistance

  • Sisman, Adam - The Friendship: Wordsworth and Coleridge

  • Skidmore, Chris - Edward VI: The Lost King of England

  • Slouka, Mark - The Visible World

  • Smethurst, David - Tripoli: The United States' First War on Terror

  • Smith, Joan - Aurora

  • Smtih, Joan - Endure My Heart

  • Snowcroft, R.D. - The Blanchard Brothers Film Company

  • Soliman, Wendy - The Social Outcast

  • Southey, Roz - Broken Harmony

  • Stirling, Jessica - Blessings in Disguise

  • Stubbs, John - Donne: The Reformed Soul

  • Sundell, Joanne - A… My Name's Amelia

  • Swartz, Katharine - Far Horizons

  • Taylor, D.J. - Kept: A Victorian Mystery

  • Taylor, Richard - Sue Mundy

  • Thomas, Will - The Limehouse Text

  • Thomsen, Paul A. - Rebel Chief: The Motley Life of Colonel William Holland Thomas

  • Todd, Charles - A False Mirror

  • Todd, Kim - Chrysalis: Maria Sibylla Merian and the Secrets of Metamorphosis

  • Turnbull, Ann - Josie Under Fire

  • Updale, Eleanor - Montmorency and the Assassins

  • Vantrease, Brenda Rickman - The Mercy Seller

  • von der Lippe, Angela - The Truth About Lou

  • Vreeland, Susan - Luncheon of the Boating Party

  • Wallner, Michael - April in Paris

  • Walsh, George - "Those Damn Horse Soldiers": True Tales of the Civil War Cavalry

  • Walters, Jennie - House of Secrets

  • Walvin, James - A Short History of Slavery

  • Watson, Jules - The Boar Stone

  • Weir, Alison - Innocent Traitor

  • Wells, Rosemary - Red Moon at Sharpsburg

  • Welsh, T.K. - Resurrection Men

  • White, William H. - In Pursuit of Glory

  • Whitfield, Anne - The Gentle Wind's Caress

  • Wilcox, John - Last Stand at Majuba Hill

  • Winkler, Martin M., ed. - Spartacus: Film and History

  • Wolf, Joan M. - Someone Named Eva

  • Wood, Valerie - Nobody's Child

  • Woolley, Benjamin - Savage Kingdom: Virginia and the Founding of English America

  • Zigmond, Sally - Chasing Angels

  • Zimler, Richard - The Seventh Gate

  • Zweig, Stefanie - Somewhere in Germany

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