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Historical Novels Review - Table of Contents
May 2009

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Editorial, Bethany Latham
Historical Fiction Market News, Sarah Johnson
History & Film: The Duchess, by Luan Gaines
Cover Story: Cultural Appropriation: It's Not Only Your Story! by Lucille Cormier
Crime in the Raj: Sue Berry talks to Barbara Cleverly
Pas de Deux: Writing Historical Fiction as a Team, by Susan Higginbotham
Myfanwy Cook profiles Sourcebooks
Bitter & Sweet: Helene Williams interviews Jamie Ford
Mary Moffat interviews John Pilkington
The King's Rejects: 11 Royal Titles to Avoid, Susan Higginbotham

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

  • Alexander, Tamera - The Inheritance

  • Allan, Sue - Tudor Rose

  • Anaya, Rudolfo - Shaman Winter

  • Atkins, Ace - Devil's Garden

  • Balogh, Mary - First Comes Marriage

  • Balogh, Mary - Then Comes Seduction

  • Balogh, Mary - At Last Comes Love

  • Barnard, Frank - To Play the Fox

  • Barnes, Margaret Campbell - King's Fool

  • Bennett, Vanora - Figures in Silk

  • Bennett, Vanora - Blood Royal

  • Berry, Steve - The Charlemagne Pursuit

  • Blackford, Jenny - The Priestess and the Slave

  • Blake, Richard - The Terror of Constantinople

  • Bowen, Rhys - In a Gilded Cage

  • Bowling, Tom - The Antigallican

  • Boyne, John - Mutiny: A Novel of the Bounty

  • Bradby, Tom - Blood Money

  • Brandreth, Gyles - Oscar Wilde and the Ring of Death

  • Brendan, Maggie - No Place for a Lady

  • Breslin, Theresa - The Nostradamus Prophecy

  • Bristow, Gwen - Celia Garth

  • Brown, Laurie - What Would Jane Austen Do?

  • Bunn, Davis, and Janette Oke - The Centurion's Wife

  • Burton, Gabrielle - Searching for Tamsen Donner

  • Cabot, Amanda - Paper Roses

  • Calderon, Emilio - The Creator's Map

  • Cameron, Christian - Tyrant: Storm of Arrows

  • Cantrell, Rebecca - A Trace of Smoke

  • Champlin, Tim - West of Washoe

  • Chandler, Pauline - The Mark of Edain

  • Clark, Cassandra - The Red Velvet Turnshoe

  • Cleverly, Barbara - The Tomb of Zeus

  • Colin, Beatrice - The Luminous Life of Lilly Aphrodite

  • Collingnon, Rick - Madewell Brown

  • Collins, Norman - London Belongs to Me

  • Connealy, Mary - Gingham Mountain

  • Connor, Alexandra - The Soldier's Wife

  • Cox, Michael - The Glass of Time

  • Craig, Emma - Sierra Ransom

  • Cunningham, Elizabeth - Bright Dark Madonna

  • Curran, M.F.W. - The Hoard of Mhorrer

  • David, Saul - Zulu Hart

  • Davies, David Stuart - Without Conscience

  • Davis, Lindsey - Alexandria

  • Dawson, Jill - The Great Lover

  • de Alcantara, Pedro - Backtracked

  • Dean, Rebecca - Palace Circle

  • Delaney, Frank - Shannon

  • Deloria, Ella Cara - Waterlily

  • Depoy, Phillip - The King James Conspiracy

  • Dietrich, William - The Dakota Cipher

  • Dobbs, Michael - Winston's War

  • Dokey, Cameron - Wild Orchid: A Retelling of "The Ballad of Mulan"

  • Doyle, Marissa - Betraying Season

  • Drake, John - Fire and Silver

  • Du Maurier, Daphne - Frenchman's Creek

  • Dunlap, Susanne - The Musician's Daughter

  • Durrant, Lynda - Imperfections

  • Elliott, Anna - Twilight of Avalon

  • Estlemen, Loren D. - The Branch and the Scaffold

  • Faye, Lyndsay - Dust and Shadow

  • Flood, Charles Bracelen - 1864: Lincoln at the Gates of History

  • Flynn, Katie - A Mother's Hope

  • Forrest, Alistair - Libertas

  • Fort, Adrian - Archibald Wavell: The Life and Times of an Imperial Servant

  • Francis, Pauline - A World Away

  • Franklin, Ariana - Grave Goods

  • French, Jackie - The Camel Who Crossed Australia

  • Gantt, DeVa - Decision and Destiny

  • Garner, Elizabeth - The Ingenious Edgar Jones

  • Gedge, Pauline - Seer of Egypt

  • Golding, Julia - Cat O'Nine Tails

  • Graham, Jo - Hand of Isis

  • Green, Dudley - Patrick Bronte: Father of Genius

  • Greenwood, Kerry - A Question of Death: An Illustrated Phryne Fisher Treasury

  • Gregorio, Michael - A Visible Darkness

  • Gregory, Susanna - The Westminster Poisoner

  • Gregson, Julia - East of the Sun

  • Grey, Amelia - A Duke to Die For

  • Griner, Paul - The German Woman

  • Grovier, Kelly - The Gaol

  • Guillou, Jan - The Road to Jerusalem

  • Haran, Maeve - The Lady and the Poet

  • Harlow, Joan Hiatt - Blown Away!

  • Harris, Christopher - Mappamundi

  • Harwood, John - The Séance

  • Haymor, Jennifer - A Hint of Wicked

  • Helget, Nicole - The Turtle Catcher

  • Heyer, Georgette - The Talisman Ring

  • Heyer, Georgette - The Conqueror

  • Heyer, Georgette - Regency Buck

  • Heyer, Georgette - The Nonesuch

  • Higginbotham, Susan - The Traitor's Wife

  • Hollick, Helen - The Kingmaking

  • Hooper, Mary - Newes from the Dead

  • Houghteling, Sara - Pictures at an Exhibition

  • Howe, Katherine - The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane

  • Hoyt, Elizabeth - To Beguile a Beast

  • Hubbard, Kate - Rubies in the Snow

  • Hutchings, Henry - The Secret Life of Words

  • Iggulden, Conn - Genghis: Bones of the Hills

  • James, Marlon - The Book of Night Women

  • Jaro, Benita Kane - Betray the Night

  • Jecks, Michael - The King of Thieves

  • Jiles, Paulette - The Color of Lightning

  • Johnson, Catherine - A Nest of Vipers

  • Johnston, Arnold - The Witching Voice

  • Jones, Michael - Leningrad: State of Siege

  • Karpin, Michael - Tightrope: Six Centuries of a Jewish Dynasty

  • Kearby, Mike - Ambush at Mustang Canyon

  • Kelly, Mary Pat - Galway Bay

  • Kent, Jasper - Twelve

  • Kent, Kathleen - The Heretic's Daughter

  • Kerr, Philip - A Quiet Flame

  • Killeen, Andrew - The Father of Locks

  • Kirkpatrick, Jane - A Flickering Light

  • Klassen, Julie - The Apothecary's Daughter

  • Kyle, Barbara - The King's Daughter

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

  • Lake, Nara - Remittance Man

  • Lathan, Sharon - Mr & Mrs Fitzwilliam Darcy

  • Laurens, Stephanie - Temptation and Surrender

  • Lawhead, Stephen H - Tuck

  • Lehrer, Jim - Oh, Johnny

  • Levin, Carole, and Robert Bucholz, eds. - Queens and Power in Medieval and Early Modern England

  • Lewis, Hilda - I, Jacqueline

  • LeZotte, Ann Clare - T4

  • Libby, Alisa M. - The King's Rose

  • Littell, Robert - The Stalin Epigram

  • Lofts, Norah - Here Was a Man

  • Longrigg, Clare - Boss of Bosses

  • Luben, Jacquelynn - Tainted Tree

  • Mac, Gerard - The Way It Was

  • Macintyre, Rebbie - Cast the First Stone

  • MacKenzie, Sally - The Naked Baron

  • Maistros, Louis - The Sound of Building Coffins

  • Maitland, Karen - The Owl Killers

  • Malmont, Paul - Jack London in Paradise

  • May, Antoinette - The Sacred Well

  • Mayo, C.M. - The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire

  • McCain, Charles - An Honorable German

  • McCleary, Carol - The Alchemy of Murder

  • McKernan, Victoria - The Devil's Paintbox

  • McMahon, Katherine - The Rose of Sebastopol

  • McPherson, Catriona - The Winter Ground

  • Moore, Wendy - Wedlock

  • Moorhouse, Geoffrey - The Last Divine Office

  • Morrison, Toni - A Mercy

  • Nagel, Susan - Marie-Therese: The Fate of Marie-Antoinette's Daughter

  • Napoli, Donna Jo - The Smile

  • Napoli, Donna Jo - Alligator Bayou

  • Nelson, Anne - Red Orchestra

  • Nelson, Kathryn L. - Pemberley Manor

  • Nunn, Malia - A Beautiful Place to Die

  • Osborne, Mary Pope - Magic Tree House: A Wild West Ride

  • Padel, Ruth - Darwin: A Life in Poems

  • Pasha, Kamran - Mother of the Believers

  • Pearl, Matthew - The Last Dickens

  • Perry, Anne - Execution Dock

  • Peyton, K.M. - No Turning Back

  • Phillips, Jayne Anne - Lark and Termite

  • Pintoff, Stefanie - In the Shadow of Gotham

  • Pipkin, John - Woodsburner

  • Platt, Donald Michael - Rocamora

  • Poster, Jem - Rifling Paradise

  • Rabb, Jonathan - Shadow and Light

  • Rappaport, Helen - The Last Days of the Romanovs

  • Raybourn, Deanna - Silent on the Moor

  • Romero, Orlando - Nambe Year One

  • Royle, Trevor - The Road to Bosworth Field

  • Russell, Christopher - Scarper Jack and the Bloodstained Room

  • Ryan, James - South of the Border

  • Sato, Kiyo - Kiyo's Story: A Japanese-American Family's Quest for the American Dream

  • Sawyer, Kim Vogel - A Promise for Spring

  • Scarrow, Simon - Fire and Sword

  • Scott, Joanna - Follow Me

  • Serageldin, Samia - The Naqib's Daughter

  • Shamsie, Kamila - Burnt Shadows

  • Shorey, Ann - The Edge of Light

  • Simmons, Dan - Drood

  • Simpson, Donna Lea - Lady Anne and the Howl in the Dark

  • Singleton, Sarah - Out of the Shadows

  • Smith, Wilbur - Assegai

  • Stace, Wesley - By George

  • Stockett, Kathryn - The Help

  • Stuart, David E. - Angel of Vilcabamba

  • Taggart, Caroline - Writer's Market UK and Ireland 2010

  • Taylor, D.J. - Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age

  • Tobin, Betsy - Ice Land

  • Tremayne, Peter - The Council of the Cursed

  • Tyndall, M.L. - The Red Siren

  • Unsworth, Barry - Land of Marvels

  • Urch, Marion - An Invitation to Dance

  • Uruburu, Paula - American Eve

  • Verghese, Abraham - Cutting for Stone

  • Vivante, Bella - Daughters of Gaia

  • Wagman, Fredrica - The Lie

  • Wallace, Diana - The Woman's Historical Novel: British Women Writers 1900-2000

  • Waterfield, Robin - Why Socrates Died

  • Waters, Paul - Cast Not the Day

  • Watson, Jules - The Swan Maiden

  • Webster, Brenda - Vienna Triangle

  • Werth, Barry - Banquet at Delmonico's

  • Whelan, Gloria - After the Train

  • Whitney, Kim Ablon - The Other Half of Life

  • Wiesel, Elie - A Mad Desire to Dance

  • Williams, Andrew - The Interrogator

  • Winchester, Simon - Bomb, Book & Compass

  • Wood, Larry - Call Me Charlie

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