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This is THE best place to find out 
about new historical fiction.

'The Historical Novels Review is where I find out what’s happening in the historical fiction market.'  – Carole Blake, Blake Friedmann Literary Agency.

If you love historical fiction, please JOIN the society today.  You won't be sorry.

'I've just read Solander - it's a triumph!'  - Bernard Cornwell.
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The Historical Novel Society, founded in 1997, promotes all aspects of historical fiction.  We provide:

• Support and opportunities for new writers, 
  
• Information for students, booksellers, and librarians, 
  
• A community for authors, readers, agents, and publishers.

Membership provides many benefits: we welcome anyone who is enthusiastic or curious about the genre.  Because the society is such a strong and supportive community, membership is a great value. 

The society publishes the quarterly Historical Novels Review magazine. The Historical Novels Review aims to review every new work of historical fiction released in the USA and the UK. Selected titles from Canada and Australia are also reviewed, for a grand total of over 800 reviews per year. It is the only magazine of its kind, the best and most complete guide to the latest historical fiction in the world. 

The society also publishes the twice yearly magazine Solander. Solander features interviews with current authors (Cecelia Holland, Wilbur Smith, Diana Gabaldon) as well as retrospectives on the great names of historical fiction (Georgette Heyer, Alfred Duggan, Rosemary Sutcliff, Mary Renault). We also publish original fiction by new and established authors (Michel Faber, Elizabeth Chadwick).

Our annual conferences alternate between the UK and North America.  Our third North American conference was held on June 12-14, 2009, in Schaumburg, IL, in Chicago's northwestern suburbs.

Historical Novels Review Online is our quarterly online publication, featuring reviews of electronically-published and subsidy-published historical novels.

Our website aims to answer your first questions about the Society, but if you have any further queries, please write us.

News from the Society:

It's renewal time!  Memberships in HNS run by calendar year.  Join or renew now to receive February's Historical Novels Review and future issues of HNR and Solander as they're published. Of course, new members are welcome at any time!

The 4th North American HNS Conference will be held June 17-19, 2011 in San Diego.
More info to come!

Read Editors' Choice reviews from the forthcoming Feb 2010 issue of the Historical Novels Review.

Also read the Feb 2010 issue of Historical Novels Review Online.

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Our members' latest novels:

For our author members: to have your new books featured here, please contact us.

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