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Historical Novels Review - Table of Contents
November 2006

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Features this issue:

Editorial: The Great Debate, Bethany Skaggs
Historical Fiction Market News, Sarah Johnson
History and Film: The Sound of Silence, The Stealthy Magic of Werner Herzog's Aguirre, Wrath of God, Sarah Bower
The American Western Novel: Trends in the Genre, Chuck Curtis (cover story)
(Self) Publish or Perish? Author Helen Hollick Shares Her Experiences
A Snowball's Chance? Ann Oughton talks to Emma Barnes of Snowbooks
The Queen's Favourite: Teresa Basinski Eckford interviews Susan Holloway Scott


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

  • Ackroyd, Peter - The Fall of Troy

  • Albert, Susan Wittig - The Tale of Cuckoo Brow Wood

  • Allen, Robert - Allen's English Phrases

  • Andrews, Beth - Hidden in the Heart

  • Arthur, Max - Lost Voices of the Edwardians

  • Bahr, Howard - The Judas Field

  • Baker, Calvin - Dominion

  • Balogh, Mary - Simply Love

  • Barker, Ann - The Other Miss Frobisher

  • Baron, Aileen - The Torch of Tangier

  • Beauclerk-Dewar, Peter, and Roger Powell - Right Royal Bastards

  • Belli, Gioconda - The Scroll of Seduction

  • Benn, James R. - Billy Boyle

  • Bergren, Lisa Tawn - The Begotten

  • Bertagnoli, Lisa - Scarlett Rules

  • Beverley, Jo - To Rescue a Rogue

  • Bingham, Charlotte - In Distant Fields

  • Bitton-Jackson, Livia - Hello, America

  • Blake, Jennifer - Dawn Encounter

  • Blevins, Win - Stone Song

  • Boyd, William - Restless

  • Boyle, Elizabeth - His Mistress By Morning

  • Bright, Bill, and Jack Cavanaugh - Fury

  • Brown, Benita - Fortune's Daughter

  • Brown, Jane - My Darling Heriott

  • Budiansky, Stephen - Her Majesty's Spymaster

  • Buonaguro, Gina, and Janice Kirk - The Sidewalk Artist

  • Burton, Ann - Deborah's Story

  • Butler, Gwendoline - Dread Murder

  • Capote, Truman - Summer Crossing

  • Casey, Donis - Hornswaggled

  • Caskie, Kathryn - How to Seduce a Duke

  • Chandler, Pauline - Warrior Girl

  • Chen, Da - Brothers

  • Childs, Jessie - Henry VIII's Last Victim

  • Christianse, Yvette - Unconfessed

  • Clare, Alys - Girl in a Red Tunic

  • Coffman, Elaine - By Fire and By Sword

  • Conn, Phoebe - Midnight Blue

  • Conner, Alexandra - The Lydgate Widow

  • Cooper, Susan - Victory

  • Cooper, T., and Adam Mansbach, eds. - A Fictional History of the United States (With Huge Chunks Missing)

  • Cornick, Nicola - Deceived

  • Cox, Carol - Ticket to Tomorrow

  • Cushman, Karen - The Loud Silence of Francine Green

  • Dahlquist, Gordon - The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters

  • Dalley, Jan - The Black Hole: Money, Myth and Empire

  • Daniel, Paul, and Ann Thompson Carter - Anna's Wish

  • Darwin, Emma - The Mathematics of Love

  • Davis-Gardner, Angela - Plum Wine

  • de Feydeau, Elisabeth - A Scented Palace: The Secret History of Marie Antoinette's Perfumer

  • DeHart, Robyn - Deliciously Wicked

  • Delbanco, Nicholas - Spring and Fall

  • Dillon, Patrick - The Last Revolution: 1688 and the Creation of the Modern World

  • Dobbs, Michael - Churchill's Triumph

  • Dodd, Renee - A Cabinet of Wonders

  • Doherty, Paul - The Queen of the Night

  • Doig, Ivan - The Whistling Season

  • Downing, Sybil - The Vote

  • Dowswell, Paul - Powder Monkey

  • Druett, Joan - Run Afoul

  • Duncan, Alice - Cactus Flower

  • Dunn, Carola - Gunpowder Plot

  • Edric, Robert - Gathering the River

  • Eisenbreg, John - The Great Match Race

  • Epstein, Leslie - The Eighth Wonder of the World

  • Erickson, Carolly - The Last Wife of Henry VIII

  • Faber, Michel - The Apple: New Crimson Petal Stories

  • Farmer, Nancy - The Sea Rolls

  • Fentiman, Roslyn - The Plains of Promise

  • Ferris, Jean - Much Ado About Grubstake

  • Flanders, Judith - An Aristocratic Affair: The Life of Georgiana's Sister, Harriet Spender, Countess of Bessborough

  • Fletcher, Donna - Taken by Storm

  • Franklin, Tom - Smonk

  • Frazer, Margaret - A Play of Knaves

  • Frazier, Charles - Thirteen Moons

  • Galen, Shana - No Man's Bride

  • Galland, Nicole - Revenge of the Rose

  • Garcia y Robertson, R. - Firebird

  • Gardner, Ashley - A Covent Garden Mystery

  • Garland, David - Saratoga

  • Garrett, Ginger - Dark Hour

  • Gear, Kathleen O'Neal - It Wakes In Me

  • Geary, Judith - Getorix: The Eagle and the Bull

  • Geoffrion, Alan - Broken Trail

  • Gillespie, Donna - Lady of the Light

  • Gilmore, Jennifer - Golden Country

  • Gist, Deeanne - The Measure of a Lady

  • Gleason, Robert, and Junius Podrug - Gary Jennings' Aztec Rage

  • Gleeson, Janet - The Thief Taker

  • Gower, Iris - Act of Love

  • Goyer, Tricia - Arms of Deliverance

  • Gracie, Anne - The Perfect Stranger

  • Graham-Evans, Posie - The Beloved

  • Grant, Richard - Another Green World

  • Graves, Robert - I, Claudius

  • Graves, Robert - Claudius the God

  • Gregory, Philippa - The Boleyn Inheritance

  • Greenwood, Kerry - Death at Victoria Dock

  • Greenwood, Kerry - Murder on the Ballarat Train

  • Greenwood, Kerry - Flying Too High

  • Greenwood, Leigh - A Texan's Honor

  • Gregorio, Michael - Critique of Criminal Reason

  • Groe, Diana - Maidensong

  • Gwaltney, Doris - Homefront

  • Haeger, Diane - Courtesan

  • Hake, Cathy Marie - Letter Perfect

  • Hallam, Livia, with James Reasoner - War Drums

  • Hamilton, Jane - When Madeline Was Young

  • Hammond, Melinda - Gentlemen in Question

  • Harper, Tom - Knights of the Cross

  • Harris, Robert - Imperium

  • Harry, Lilian - A Song at Twilight

  • Healey, David - Rebel Train

  • Hearn, Lian - The Harsh Cry of the Heron

  • Heath, Sandra - A Scandalous Publication

  • Hern, Candice - Just One of Those Flings

  • Herries, Anne - Her Knight Protector

  • Hills, Kathleen - Hunter's Dance

  • Hills, Kathleen - Witch Cradle

  • Hoffman, Alice - Incantation

  • Hollick, Helen - Sea Witch

  • Hollingshead, Greg - Bedlam

  • Howard, Hugh - Dr. Kimball and Mr. Jefferson

  • Humphreys, C.C. - Jack Absolute

  • Humphreys, Chris - The Fetch

  • Jackson, Jane - The Chain Garden

  • Jacobs, Anna - Star of the North

  • Jacobson, Dan - All for Love

  • James, Reina - This Time of Dying

  • Jasanoff, Maya - Edge of Empire: Conquest and Collecting in the Middle East

  • Jeffries, Sabrina - Only a Duke Will Do

  • John, Brian - House of Angels

  • Jones, Nicolette - The Plimsoll Sensation

  • Joyce, Lydia - Whispers of the Night

  • Kaiser, Reinhard - Paper Kisses: A True Love Story

  • Kalogridis, Jeanne - I, Mona Lisa

  • Kaplan, Justin - When the Astors Owned New York

  • Kerr, Philip - The One from the Other

  • Kingsbury, Kate - An Unmentionable Murder

  • Knight, Alanna - Dangerous Pursuits

  • Koen, Karleen - Dark Angels

  • Konstam, Angus - Blackbeard: America's Most Notorious Pirate

  • Krahn, Betina - The Book of True Desires

  • Kreckel, Ken - The Rommel Mission

  • Lake, Deryn - The King's Women

  • Lambdin, Dewey - A King's Trade

  • Larson, Erik - Thunderstruck

  • Lawhead, Stephen R. - Hood

  • Lawrence, Caroline - The Fugitive from Corinth

  • Libby, Alisa M. - The Blood Confession

  • Lightfoot, Freda - Fools Fall in Love

  • Lightwood, Donald - The Witches' Mark

  • Lucey, Donna M. - Archie and Amelie

  • Lustbader, Victoria - Hidden

  • Maguire, Margo - The Perfect Seduction

  • Maheu, Layne - Song of the Crow

  • Malarkey, Tucker - Resurrection

  • Marlette, Doug - Magic Time

  • Marokvia, Mireille - Sins of the Innocent

  • Marston, Edward - The Princess of Denmark

  • Mathis, Jolie - The Sea King

  • McCaughrean, Geraldine - Cyrano

  • McCullough, Colleen - On, Off

  • McDonald, Nicola, ed. - Medieval Obscenities

  • McGowan, Kathleen - The Expected One

  • McKade, Maureen - A Reason to Live

  • McLynn, Frank - Lionheart and Lackland and the Wars of Conquest

  • McMurtry, Larry - The Colonel and Little Missie

  • McNeil, Frances - Sixpence in Her Shoe

  • McPherson, Catriona - The Burry Man's Day

  • Meyer, Carolyn - Loving Will Shakespeare

  • Meyer, L.A. - In the Belly of the Bloodhound

  • Ming, Wu - 54

  • Moore, Lucy - Liberty: The Life and Times of Six Women in Revolutionary France

  • Moore, Margaret - Hers to Desire

  • Moore, Robert C. - The Stone House Diaries

  • Morgan, Jude - Symphony

  • Mullen, Thomas - The Last Town on Earth

  • Myers, Beverle Graves - Cruel Music

  • Nash, Joy - The Grail King

  • Newman, Janis Cooke - Mary

  • O'Banyon, Constance - Hawk's Pledge

  • O'Brien, Anne - The Enigmatic Rake

  • O'Brien, Edna - The Light of Evening

  • Oliver, Julia - Devotion

  • O'Neill, Geraldine - The Flowers of Ballygrace

  • Orths, Markus - Catalina

  • Osborne-McKnight, Juilene - Song of Ireland

  • Parker, Ann - Iron Ties

  • Paterson, Katherine - Bread and Roses, Too

  • Paver, Michelle - The Serpent's Tooth

  • Payne, David - Back to Wando Passo

  • Pearce, Michael - The Face in the Cemetery

  • Peters, Maureen - The Haunting of Houses

  • Philbrick, Nathaniel - Mayflower

  • Poniatowska, Elena - Tinisima

  • Poniatowska, Elena - The Skin of the Sky

  • Preston, Caroline - Gatsby's Girl

  • Puls, Mark - Samuel Adams: Father of the American Revolution

  • Rice, Joan - Sand in My Shoes: War-Time Diaries of a WAAF

  • Rice, Patricia - Magic Man

  • Richards, David Adams - The Friends of Meager Fortune

  • Richman, Alyson - The Last Van Gogh

  • Rinaldi, Ann - An Unlikely Friendship

  • Robbins, David L. - The Assassins' Gallery

  • Roberts, Judson - Viking Warrior

  • Rubenfeld, Jed - The Interpretation of Murder

  • Russell, Christopher - Plague Sorcerer

  • Sa, Shan - Empress

  • Sabatini, Rafael - The Evidence of the Sword and Other Mysteries

  • Sabato, Haim - The Dawning of the Day

  • Sansom, C.J. - Sovereign

  • Santangelo, Elena - Poison to Purge Melancholy

  • Sawyer, Kim Vogel - Waiting for Summer's Return

  • Schoenecker, Mary Fremont - Four Summers Waiting

  • Scoppettone, Sandra - Too Darn Hot

  • Scott, Susan Holloway - Duchess

  • Sebestyen, Victor - Twelve Days

  • Sedgwick, Marcus - The Foreshadowing

  • Simek, Rudolf - Dictionary of Northern Mythology

  • Smith, Lee - On Agate Hill

  • Snelling, Lauraine - The Brushstroke Legacy

  • Sprott, Duncan - Daughter of the Crocodile

  • Steinhauer, Olen - Liberation Movements

  • Stockwin, Julian - Tenacious

  • Stuart, Amanda Mackenzie - Consuelo and Alva Vanderbilt

  • Tademy, Lalita - Red River

  • Taylor, Kim - Bowery Girl

  • Teltscher, Kate - The High Road to China

  • Tennant, Emma - Pemberley

  • Thom, James Alexander - Saint Patrick's Battalion

  • Thompson, Victoria - Murder in Little Italy

  • Tremayne, Peter - A Prayer for the Damned

  • Tsui, Bonnie - She Went to the Field: Women Soldiers of the Civil War

  • Tyndall, M.L. - The Redemption

  • Unger, Harlow Giles - The Unexpected George Washington

  • Vamos, Miklos - The Book of Fathers

  • VanLiere, Donna - The Angels of Morgan Hill

  • Walters, Guy - Berlin Games

  • Warren, Hans - Secretly Inside

  • Weber, Katharine - Triangle

  • Wells, Colin - Sailing from Byzantium

  • Wells, Stanley - Shakespeare & Co.

  • Welsh, T.K. - The Unresolved

  • Westin, Jeane - Lady Katherne's Wild Ride

  • Whyte, Jack - Knights of the Black and White

  • Williams, Hywel - Days that Changed the World

  • Willocks, Tim - The Religion

  • Wilson, James - The Woman in the Picture

  • Wiltshire, David - Beneath Us the Stars

  • Winspear, Jacqueline - Messenger of Truth

  • Wrede, Patricia C., and Caroline Stevermer - The Mislaid Magician, or Ten Years After

  • Wright, Jonathan - The Ambassadors

  • Young, Robyn - Brethren

  • Zellnik, M.J. - A Death at the Rose Paperworks

  • Zimmerman, Jean - The Women of the House

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