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Historical Novels Review - Table of Contents
November 2005

**Our biggest issue ever, with 240 reviews and plenty of other features!**

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Features:

Editorials
UK Conference Report
The Historical Short Fiction Prize Winners
Living the Past in the Present - Elizabeth Chadwick
Facing East: Sarah Bower interviews Simon Scarrow and Geraldine Hartnett
Past Masters: Profile of Boydell & Brewer - Sarah Bower
Historical Fiction: Towards a New Tradition - Antonia Honeywell
A New Sleuth for Scotland - Ann Oughton interviews Catriona McPherson (cover story)
Sound: Isis Publishing's Audiobooks - Geraldine Perriam
The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio - film review by B. J. Sedlock

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

Akunin, Boris - The Death of Achilles
Alexander, Bruce - Rules of Engagement
Allen, Candace - Valaida
Anton, Maggie - Rashi's Daughters
Austin, Lynn - Song of Redemption
Bailey, Jane - Tommy Glover's Sketch of Heaven
Bank, Zsuzsa - The Swimmer
Barber, Richard - The Reign of Chivalry
Barker, Ann - The Adventuress
Barnett-Gramckow, Kacy - A Crown in the Stars
Barry, Sebastian - A Long, Long Way
Bartlett, Rosamund - Chekhov, Scenes from a Life
Beahrs, Andrew - Strange Saint
Beauclerk, Charles - Nell Gwyn: A Biography
Beyer, Marcel - Spies
Biggins, John - A Sailor of Austria
Bingham, Charlotte - Friday's Girl
Booth, Michael - Just As Well I'm Leaving
Boyden, Joseph - Three Day Road
Boyle, David - Blondel's Song
Bray, Libba - Rebel Angels
Brendon, Vivian - Children of the Raj
Brown, Amy Belding - Mr. Emerson's Wife
Brown, Benita - A Safe Harbour
Buck, Pearl S. - The Good Earth
Bulkeley, John, and John Byron - The Loss of the Wager
Burchett, Jan, and Sara Vogler - The Lady Grace Mysteries: Exile
Burke, Junior - Something Gorgeous
Burns, Christopher - Island Wilderness
Burton, Milton T. - The Rogues' Game
Cabot, Meg - Nicola and the Viscount
Caldwell, Mark - New York Night
Carroll, Susan - The Courtesan
Casey, Donis - The Old Buzzard Had It Coming
Caskie, Kathryn - A Lady's Guide to Rakes
Castaldo, Nancy - Pizza for the Queen
Castellani, Christopher - The Saint of Lost Things
Chapman, Myriam - Why She Married Him
Cobbold, G.B. - Vergil's Aeneid: Hero, War, Humanity
Colby, Susan M. - Sacagawea's Child
Collingham, Lizzie - Curry
Cooney, Ellen - A Private Hotel for Gentle Ladies
Coredon, Christopher - A Dictionary of Medieval Terms and Phrases
Cornelius, Kay - Summons to the Chateau d'Arc
Cote, Lyn - Chloe
Couloumbis, Audrey - The Misadventures of Maude March
Crowley, Bridget - Feast of Fools
Cutter, Leah - The Jaguar and the Wolf
Dams, Jeanne M. - Crimson Snow
Danticat, Edwidge - Anacaona, Golden Flower: Haiti, 1490
Danziger, Danny, and Nicholas Purcell - Hadrian's Empire
Darnton, John - The Darwin Conspiracy
de Courcy, Anne - Debs at War
Defoe, Gideon - The Pirates!
Denton, Sally - Faith and Betrayal: A Pioneer Woman's Passage in the American West
Devoto, Pat Cunningham - The Summer We Got Saved
Diamant, Anita - The Last Days of Dogtown
Doctorow, E.L. - The March
Eccles, Marjorie - Shadows and Lies
Elyot, Amanda - The Memoirs of Helen of Troy
Ephron, Amy - One Sunday Morning
Etzioni-Halevy, Eva - The Song of Hannah
Fairweather, Janet, trans. - Liber Eliensis: A History of the Isle of Ely
Faulks, Sebastian - Human Traces
Feldman, Ellen - The Boy Who Loved Ann Frank
Fender, J.E. - On the Spur of Speed
Foster, Robert L. - Fort Zion
Francis, June - A Dream to Share
Friedman, Robin - The Silent Witness
Fulmer, David - Jass
Gaffney, Elizabeth - Metropolis
Gardner, Sally - I, Coriander
Garfield, Henry - The Lost Voyage of John Cabot
Garlock, Dorothy - River Rising
Garrett, Ginger - Chosen: The Lost Diaries of Queen Esther
Gear, Kathleen O'Neal - It Sleeps In Me
Gear, W. Michael and Kathleen O'Neal Gear - People of the Moon
Gemmell, David - Troy: Lord of the Silver Bow
Geras, Adele - Ithaka
Gerber, Merrill Joan - Glimmering Girls
Gilchrist, Micaela - The Fiercer Heart
Gilliland, Norman - Sand Mansions
Glinert, Ed - East End Chronicles
Gordon, Andrew - The Rules of the Game
Gordon, Charlotte - Mistress Bradstreet: The Untold Life of America's First Poet
Gordon, Stan - Moon in the Water
Goulart, Ron - Groucho Marx:  King of the Jungle
Gower, Iris - The Other Woman
Green, George - Hawk
Green, Hilary - We'll Meet Again
Greene, Harlan - The German Officer's Boy
Gregory, Philippa - The Constant Princess
Gribbin, John - The Fellowship: The Story of a Revolution
Hamilton, Ruth - The Bell House
Harington, Donald - The Pitcher Shower
Harper, Tom - The Mosaic of Shadows
Harry, Lilian - Three Little Ships
Hearn, Julie - The Minister's Daughter
Heinrichs, Linnea - The First Vial
Henderson, Meg - Daisy's Wars
Henry, Frances - Victrix: Triumph in the Roman Arena
Hicks, Robert - The Widow of the South
Holling, Jen - My Wicked Highlander
Howard, Audrey - As the Night Ends
Howard, Audrey - Distant Images
Howard, Robert E. - Lord of Samarcand and Other Adventure Tales of the Old Orient
Hudson, Roger - Hudson's English History: A Compendium
Hughes, Bettany - Helen of Troy: Goddess, Princess, Whore
Hurst, Carol Otis - You Came to Yokum
Irvine, Alexander C. - The Narrows
Jacq, Christian - The Way of Fire
James, Margaret - The Morning Promise
Japin, Arthur - In Lucia's Eyes
Jinks, Catherine - The Pagan Chronicles (4 books)
Judd, Cameron - Boone: A Novel of an American Legend
Keay, John - The Spice Route
Keizer, Gregg - Midnight Plague
Kelly, Leisha - Rorey's Secret
King, Laurie R. - Locked Rooms
Knight, Roger - The Pursuit of Victory
Kriwaczek, Paul - Yiddish Civilization
Laird, Elizabeth - Secrets of the Fearless
Lambdin, Dewey - What Lies Buried
Landvik, Lorna - Oh My Stars
Larson, DL - Memories Trail
Laurens, Stephanie - The Truth About Love
Lavender, William - Just Jane
Lehmann - Haupt, Christopher - The Mad Cook of Pymatuning
Leonard, Elmore - The Hot Kid
Linderman, Frank B. - Lige Mounts: Free Trapper
Lindsey, Johanna - Marriage Most Scandalous
Lingard, Joan - Encarnita's Journey
Longstreth, Bevis - Spindle and Bow
Lovell, Mary S. - Bess of Hardwick
Mann, Thomas - Joseph and His Brothers
Manning, Jo - My Lady Scandalous
Marshall, Bev - Hot Fudge Sundae Blues
Marston, Edward - The Malevolent Comedy
Martin, Rosemary - It's a Mod, Mod, Mod, Mod Murder
Martino, Carmela A. - Rosa, Sola
Maxwell - Stuart, P.G. - Witchcraft: A History
Mazer, Harry - Heroes Don't Run
Mazzucco, Melania G. - Vita
McCarthy, Terry - The Sword of Hannibal
McCune, Adam, and Keith McCune - The Rats of Hamelin
McGregor, Elizabeth - The Girl in the Green Glass Mirror
McPherson, Catriona - After the Armistice Ball
Megged, Aharon - Mandrakes from the Holy Land
Meyer, Carolyn - Marie, Dancing
Meyer, Henye - Fall of the Sun God
Meyer, L.A. - Under the Jolly Roger
Millard, Candice - The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
Miller, Judith - First Dawn
Mootoo, Shani - He Drown She in the Sea
Morgan, Jude - Indiscretion
Morris, Gilbert - The Homeplace
Morris, Marc - The Bigod Earls of Norfolk in the Thirteenth Century
Morris, Mary McGarry - The Lost Mother
Morton, Frederic - The Forever Street
Morton, Frederic - Runaway Waltz
Mosley, Walter - Cinnamon Kiss
Mossanen, Dora Levy - Courtesan
Mowll, Joshua - Operation Red Jericho
Musset, Lucien - The Bayeux Tapestry
Nadel, Barbara - Last Rites
Napier, William - Attila
Nelson, James - Glory in the Name
Newbery, Linda - Blitz Boys
Novik, Naomi - Temeraire
Noyes, Deborah - Angel and Apostle
Parkinson, C. Northcote - The Life and Times of Horatio Hornblower
Parks, Tim - Medici Money
Paver, Michelle - Wolf Brother
Peakman, Julie - Lascivious Bodies
Pemberton, Victor - We'll Sing At Dawn
Phillips, Caryl - Dancing in the Dark
Phillips, Michael - A Perilous Proposal
Picard, Liza - Victorian London
Pilek, Eugena - Cooperstown
Prince, Alison - Three Blind Eyes
Prince, Peter - Adam Runaway
Quinn, Thomas - The Lion of St. Mark
Radzinsky, Edvard - Alexander II: The Last Great Tsar
Rees, Elizabeth M. - The Wedding: An Encounter with Jan Van Eyck
Reese, James - The Book of Spirits
Resnick, Mike - Lady with an Alien
Restrepo, Laura - Isle of Passion
Rice, Anne - Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt
Richards, David - The Plough's Share
Rinaldi, Ann - Keep Smiling Through
Robertson, Geoffrey - The Tyrannicide Brief
Robson, Lucia St. Clair - Shadow Patriots
Ross, Anne - Druids: Preachers of Immortality
Ross, Joel N. - Double Cross Blind
Rowland, Laura Joh - The Assassin's Touch
Royal, Priscilla - Tyrant of the Mind
Rubio, Gwyn Hyman - The Woodsman's Daughter
Saylor, Steven - A Gladiator Dies Only Once
Schooler, Lynn - The Last Shot
Scully, Terence - The Art of Cookery in the Middle Ages
Sedden, John - Mudlark
Severin, Tim - Viking: Sworn Brother
Shapiro, James - 1599, A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare
Shaw, Fiona - The Picture She Took
Shindler, Colin - Garbo and Gilbert In Love
Sington, Philip - Zoia's Gold
Siroka, Eva Jana - Maddalena
Spillebeen, Geert - Kipling's Choice
Stanley, Mary - Searching for Home
Stockley, Philippa - A Factory of Cunning
Swan, Susan - What Casanova Told Me
Tallman, Shirley - The Russian Hill Murders
Tate, June - To Be a Lady
Taylor, Theodore - Billy the Kid
Temple, Lou Jane - The Spice Box
Thomas, Donald - Villains' Paradise
Thomas, Edwin - The Chains of Albion
Thompson, Harry - This Thing of Darkness
Toksvig, Sandi - Hitler's Canary
Tomlinson, Theresa - Against the Tide
Trevanian - The Crazyladies of Pearl Street
Trotter, Janet MacLeod - A Crimson Dawn
Turner, Ann - Maia of Thebes: 1463 BC
Vachss, Andrew - Two Trains Running
Verissimo, Luis Fernando - Borges and the Eternal Orangutans
Vinton, Victoria - The Jungle Law
Warsh, Sylvia Maultash - Find Me Again
Watts, Leander - Ten Thousand Charms
Weidner, Paul - Memoirs of a Dwarf at the Sun King's Court
Weir, Alison - Queen Isabella
Whitson, Stephanie Grace - Footsteps on the Horizon
Widmer, Eleanor - Up from Orchard Street
Wilcox, John - The Road to Kandahar
Wilson, Christopher - Cotton
Wilson, Derek  - Charlemagne: The Great Adventure
Winspear, Jacqueline - Pardonable Lies
Woodruff, William - Vessel of Sadness
Woods, Janet - The Stonecutter's Daughter
Work, James C. - Riders of Deathwater Valley
Worrall, Jay - Sails on the Horizon
Zellnik, M.J. - Murder at the Portland Variety

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