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Historical Novels Review - Table of Contents
November 2009

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In Memoriam: Mary Moffat, Bethany Latham
Historical Fiction Market News, Sarah Johnson
History and Film: Adaptation, Hannah Sternberg
Cover Story: Rebels & Traitors, Sara Wilson interviews Lindsey Davis
Death Was...  Mystery writer Linda L. Richards discusses her work with Ken Kreckel
Saga, Fact and Fiction: The North Atlantic Viking Voyages of Discovery of Vinland, Myfanwy Cook
Managing Medieval Murderers: Tania Cross interviews her agent, Dorothy Lumley
Sir Francis Drake: England's Fiery Dragon, Myfanwy Cook
Myfanwy Cook explores Pan Macmillan's success as a publisher of historical novels
10 Ways to Liven Up History, humor by Susan Higginbotham

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

  • Abbott, Megan - Bury Me Deep

  • Albert, Susan Wittig - The Tale of Applebeck Orchard

  • Andersen, Natasha - A Fraudulent Betrothal

  • Anton, Maggie - Rashi's Daughters: Book III, Rachel

  • Atwood, Margaret - The Year of the Flood

  • Bakewell, Joan - All the Nice Girls

  • Barnes, Margaret Campbell - The Tudor Rose

  • Barnhouse, Rebecca - The Book of the Maidservant

  • Bascomb, Neal - Hunting Eichmann

  • Bedford, Simi - Not with Silver

  • Benatar, Stephen - Letters for a Spy

  • Berr, Helene - Journal

  • Bingham, Charlotte - The Daisy Club

  • Blackstock, Nick - Something Hidden

  • Boccardi, Mariadele - The Contemporary British Historical Novel: Representation, Nation, Empire

  • Boffey, Julia, and Virginia Davis - Recording Medieval Lives

  • Boggs, Johnny D. - Hard Winter

  • Bowen, Rhys - Royal Flush

  • Bowers, Phillipa - The Wise Woman's Tale

  • Boyne, John - The House of Special Purpose

  • Brogger, Suzanne - The Jade Cat

  • Brooks, Bill - The Messenger

  • Brown, Benita - The Promise

  • Bryant, Sarah - Sand Daughter

  • Bryant, Sarah - The Other Eden

  • Buckley, Veronica - The Secret Wife of Louis XIV

  • Buonaguro, Gina, and Janice Kirk - Ciao Bella

  • Cameron, Michelle - The Fruit of Her Hands

  • Campion, Emma - The King's Mistress

  • Carhart, Thad - Across the Endless River

  • Carroll, Susan - Twilight of a Queen

  • Casey, Donis - The Sky Took Him

  • Chase, Loretta - Don't Tempt Me

  • Clarke, Breena - Stand the Storm

  • Clarke, Mary Andrea - Love Not Poison

  • Connealy, Mary - Cowboy Christmas

  • Connealy, Mary - Montana Rose

  • Couloumbis, Audrey, and Akila Couloumbis - War Games

  • Cross, Donna Woolfolk - Pope Joan

  • Crowley, Suzanne - The Stolen One

  • Curran, M.F.W. - The Secret War

  • Dare, Tessa - Goddess of the Hunt

  • Davis, Lindsey - Rebels and Traitors

  • De Lisle, Leanda - The Sisters Who Would Be Queen

  • Dickey, Colin - Cranioklepty

  • Dinsdale, Robert - The Harrowing

  • Donald, Angus - Outlaw -

  • Douglas, Robert - Whose Turn for the Stairs?

  • Dunn, Carola - Sheer Folly: A Daisy Dalrymple Mystery

  • Edghill, India - Delilah -

  • Ellory, R.J. - A Quiet Belief in Angels

  • Erastes - Transgressions

  • Erickson, Carolly - The Memoirs of Mary Queen of Scots

  • Estrin, Marc - The Good Dr Guillotin

  • Ewing, Barbara - The Fraud

  • Fairbairn, Ann - Five Smooth Stones

  • Fairview, Monica - The Other Mr Darcy

  • Featherstone, Ann - Walking in Pimlico

  • Finch, Charles - The Fleet Street Murders

  • Finlay, C.C. - A Spell for the Revolution

  • Foden, Giles - Turbulence

  • Ford, Mackenzie - Gifts of War

  • Ford, Michael - Birth of a Warrior

  • Foreman, Stephen - Watching Gideon

  • Franck, Julia - The Blind Side of the Heart

  • Frantz, Laura - The Frontiersman's Daughter

  • Friesner, Esther - Sphinx's Princess

  • Fry, Helen - From Dachau to D-Day

  • Fullerton, Jean - A Glimpse at Happiness

  • Gabaldon, Diana - An Echo in the Bone

  • Gabbay, Tom - The Tehran Conviction

  • Gabhart, Ann H. - The Believer

  • Gantt, DeVa - Forever Waiting

  • Gaspar, Stephen - To Know Evil

  • Gautreaux, Tim - The Missing

  • Gear, Kathleen O'Neal, and W. Michael Gear - Children of the Dawnland

  • Gist, Deeanne - A Bride in the Bargain

  • Godwin, Gail - Unfinished Desires

  • Goldstone, Nancy - The Lady Queen: The Notorious Reign of Joanna I, Queen of Naples, Jerusalem, and Sicily

  • Gordon-Smith, Dolores - As If By Magic

  • Grange, Amanda - Mr Darcy, Vampyre

  • Granger, Pip - Up West -

  • Green, Hilary - The Final Act

  • Gregory, Susanna - A Vein of Deceit

  • Groves, Melody - Border Ambush

  • Guler, Kathleen Cunningham - A Land Beyond Ravens

  • Gummer, Benedict - The Scourging Angel

  • Guterson, David - Snow Falling on Cedars

  • Haeger, Diane - The Queen's Mistake

  • Hambly, Barbara - Homeland

  • Hamilton, Barbara - The Ninth Daughter

  • Harington, Donald - Enduring

  • Harlow, Joan Hiatt - Secrets of the Night Ponies

  • Harris, C.S. - What Remains of Heaven

  • Harrod-Eagles, Cynthia - The Foreign Field

  • Harry, Lilian - Springtime in Burracombe

  • Havill, Steven - Race for the Dying

  • Hearn, Julie - Rowan the Strange

  • Heath, Sandra - Lord Kane's Keepsake

  • Heath, William - Blacksnake's Path: The True Adventures of William Wells

  • Helgerson, Joseph - Crows and Cards

  • Hicks, Robert - A Separate Country

  • Higginbotham, Susan - Hugh and Bess

  • Higley, T.L. - Guardian of the Flame

  • Hockensmith, Steve - The Crack in the Lens

  • Hoffman, Yoel - Curriculum Vitae

  • Hollick, Helen - Pendragon's Banner

  • Hoyt, Elizabeth - To Desire a Devil

  • Hume, M.K. - King Arthur: Dragon's Child

  • Jackson, Douglas - Claudius

  • James, Eloisa - This Duchess of Mine

  • James, Lawrence - Aristocrats

  • Jordan, Devin - The Dragon's Pearl

  • Kane, Ben - The Silver Eagle

  • Kanon, Joseph - Stardust

  • Kennedy, Kathryne - My Unfair Lady

  • Kim, Eugenia - The Calligrapher's Daughter

  • Kingston, Beryl - Octavia's War

  • Laurens, Stephanie - The Untamed Bride

  • Leoni, Giulio - The Kingdom of Light

  • Letemendia, Claire - The Best of Men

  • Lightfoot, Freda - House of Angels

  • Lindley, Maureen - The Private Papers of Eastern Jewel

  • Linklater, Andro - An Artist in Treason

  • Littell, Jonathan - The Kindly Ones

  • Lofts, Norah - The Lute Player

  • Low, Dene - The Entomological Tales of Augustus T. Percival: Petronella Saves Nearly Everyone

  • Mackey, Mary - The Widow's War

  • Maloney, Alison - Something for the Girls

  • Man, John - The Gutenberg Revolution

  • Man, John - Xanadu -

  • March, Jenny - The Penguin Book of Classical Myths

  • Marillier, Juliet - Heart's Blood

  • Marston, Edward - The Silver Locomotive Mystery

  • McCormack, Derek - The Show That Smells

  • McCreet, James - The Incendiary's Trail

  • McElvaney, Jeanne - Harrietta's Happenstance

  • McKay, Shirley - Hue and Cry

  • Meacham, Leila - Roses

  • Medieval Murderers, The - King Arthur's Bones

  • Mitchell, Siri - Love's Pursuit

  • Monaldi, Rita, and Francesco Sorti - Secretum

  • Moran, Michelle - Cleopatra's Daughter

  • Morrissey, Tom - Pirate Hunter

  • Moser, Nancy - How Do I Love Thee?

  • Mullany, Janet - A Most Lamentable Comedy

  • Nadel, Barbara - Sure and Certain Death

  • Nash, Joy - Silver Silence

  • Neal, Bill - Sex, Murder, and the Unwritten Law: Courting Judicial Mayhem, Texas Style

  • Nichol, James W. - Transgression: A Novel of Love and War

  • Niven, Jennifer - Velva Jean Learns to Drive

  • Nixon, Cornelia - Jarrettsville

  • Noden, Shelagh - A Time for Every Season

  • Odiwe, Jane - Willoughby's Return

  • Orwell, George, ed. - Orwell Diaries

  • Osborne, Mary Pope - Magic Tree House: Palace of the Dragon King

  • Overholser, Wayne - Shadow on the Land

  • Page, Jan - Selina Penaluna

  • Pears, Iain - Stone's Fall

  • Perez-Reverte, Arturo - The Cavalier in the Yellow Doublet

  • Perry, Anne - A Christmas Promise

  • Phelan, Matt - The Storm in the Barn

  • Platt, Randall - Hellie Jondoe

  • Popescu, Petru - Girl Mary

  • Porter, Linda - The Myth of Bloody Mary

  • Quinn, Julia - What Happens in London

  • Rai, Bali - City of Ghosts

  • Redfern, Margaret - Flint

  • Riches, Anthony - Empire: Wounds of Honour

  • Rinaldi, Ann - My Vicksburg

  • Robbins, David - Broken Jewel

  • Roberts, Shauna - Like Mayflies in a Stream

  • Rogers, Rosemary - The Wildest Heart

  • Rosburg, Helen A. - Lady Blue

  • Rosoff, Meg - The Bride's Farewell

  • Royal, Priscilla - Chambers of Death

  • Rubenhold, Hallie - The Lady in Red

  • Rubino, Jane, and Caitlen Rubino-Bradway - Lady Vernon and Her Daughter

  • Rutherford, Alex - Empire of the Moghul: Raiders from the North

  • Rutherfurd, Edward - New York: The Novel

  • Sabatini, Rafael - Captain Blood

  • Sabatini, Rafael - Scaramouche

  • Santos-Febres, Mayra - Our Lady of the Night

  • Saotome, Mitsugu - Okei: A Girl from the Provinces

  • Scarrow, Simon - The Gladiator

  • Schell, Adam - Tomato Rhapsody

  • Schierhout, Gill - The Shape of Him

  • Schmidt, Gary - Anson's Way

  • Schryer, J.H. - Goodnight Vienna

  • Sheehan, Jacqueline - Now and Then

  • Siddons, Anne Rivers - Off Season

  • Sidebottom, Harry - King of Kings

  • Sim, Alistair - The Unbelievers

  • Smalley, Peter - The Gathering Storm

  • Snow, Maya - Sisters of the Sword: Blade's Edge

  • Southey, Roz - Secret Lament

  • Stanley, George Edward - Night Fires

  • Stockwin, Julian - Invasion

  • Stoker, Dacre and Ian Holt - Dracula: The Un-Dead

  • Stott, Rebecca - The Coral Thief

  • Stratford, Sarah Jane - The Midnight Guardian

  • Sussman, Paul - The Hidden Oasis

  • Szalay, David - The Innocent

  • Taylor, M. Glenn - The Ballad of Trenchmouth Taggart

  • Taylor, Patrick - An Irish Country Village

  • Thompson, Brian - The Captain's Table

  • Thompson, E.V. - No Less Than the Journey

  • Thor, Annika - A Faraway Island

  • Thorpe, Adam - Hodd

  • Tulloch, Jonathan - A Winding Road

  • Turtledove, Harry - Hitler's War

  • Tyler, Daniel, with Betty Henshaw - Love in an Envelope: A Courtship in the American West

  • Tyndall, M.L. - The Blue Enchantress

  • Upson, Nicola - Angel with Two Faces

  • Vilar, Esther - The Seven Fires of Mademoiselle

  • Walbert, Kate - A Short History of Women

  • Walsh, Dan - The Unfinished Gift

  • Ward, Eucharista - A Match for Mary Bennet

  • Waters, Sarah - The Little Stranger

  • Weber, Katharine - True Confections

  • Weinberg, Florence B. - Sonora Moonlight

  • Westerson, Jeri - Serpent in the Thorns

  • Wheatcroft, Andrew - The Enemy at the Gate

  • Whelan, Gloria - The Locked Garden

  • Whitson, Stephanie Grace - A Claim of Her Own

  • Wickham, Chris - The Inheritance of Rome: Iluminating the Dark Ages, 400-1000

  • Williams, Adam - The Book of the Alchemist

  • Williams, William Carlos - In the American Grain

  • Woolridge, Susan - The Hidden Dance

  • Wyld, Evie - After the Fire, A Still Small Voice

  • Yampolsky, J. Louis - A Boardwalk Story

  • Young, Simon - The Celtic Revolution

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