Solander is published twice yearly, in May and November. It is a magazine of interviews, articles, short fiction and comment. It is the only magazine in the world for enthusiasts of historical fiction.

'I've just read Solander - it's a triumph!'  - Bernard Cornwell

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Solander Eleven, Spring 2002 - Edited by Sarah Cuthbertson
Those Rude Victorians:Lucienne Boyce interviews Sarah Waters; Mark Turnbull writes of re-enacting a 17th century battle in the 21st; jay Dixon presents an appreciation of Georgette Heyer; Sarah Nesbeitt interviews India Edghill; Belinda Copson writes a personal assessment of children's historical fiction; Dean Miller on Alfred Duggan, Bryher, and Mary Renault; Alan Fisk presents Wallace Breem, an undeservedly forgotten author; Rachel Elliot assesses the battlefields of WWI in Richard Van Emden's work The Trench; Derek Wilson on Thomas Babington Macaulay and the writing of history; Sarah Cuthbertson interviews Thomas Wharton; Edward Krzemienski on Indian captivity in John Barth's The Sot-Weed Factor; India Edghill composes more Official Rules for Writing Historical Fiction.
Short fiction by Leigh Eduardo and Pia Tapper Fenton.

Solander Ten, Fall 2001 - Edited by Sarah Cuthbertson
Jo Manning on the repression of Catholics in England; Wendy Zollo interviews Sharon Penman; Rob Stepney on bringing John Cowper Powys' novel Owen Glendower back into print; Alan Fisk (et al) present more official rules for writing historical novels (cartoons by Henry Norman Hall); Jerome Weeks on new historical fiction and where historians and authors part; Sarah Nesbeitt reports on historical fiction in America; a fragment from the Wars of the Roses; Stephanie Haxton on women writing the past; Shannon Donnelly describes the allure of Regency England; Jasmina Svenne researches historical dance; Sarah Cuthbertson reports on the first annual HNS conference; Jeanne Fielder writes an appreciation of the late Dorothy Dunnett.
Fiction by Kate Nivison

Solander Eight, Autumn 2000 - Edited by Sarah Cuthbertson
Sandra Garside-Neville assesses Rosemary Sutcliff; Dean Miller looks at history, fiction, and the Great War; Lucienne Boyce on medieval forensics; Sarah Cuthbertson interviews Simon Scarrow; Helen Hollick celebrates Harold, the last English king; Marina Oliver and Teresa Eckford have a transatlantic conversation on historical romance; Sarah Cuthbertson interviews David Wishart; Jane Jakeman looks at the Black Death from the Muslim perspective; Joanna Hines on inspirations for her 17th century Cornish novels; Blake Morrison talks to Sebastian Faulks and Philippa Gregory.
Fiction by Towse Harrison

Solander Seven, Spring 2000 - Edited by Richard Lee
Marina Oliver on the Internet for Writers; Susan Price on 'suitability' when writing for children; Richard Lee on judging the CWA Ellis Peters Historical Dagger 1999/2000; Lucienne Boyce asks a variety of authors how they balance history with fiction; Richard Lee interviews Steven Pressfield; Belinda Copson assesses the work of DK Broster; Ken Cosgrove assesses the work of Nigel Tranter; Richard Lee interviews Gillian Bradshaw; Bryan Podmore interviews Barry Unsworth.
Fiction by Elizabeth Chadwick

Solander Six, Autumn 1999 - Edited by Richard Lee
Geoff Sadler looks at fictional Robin Hoods through the centuries; Anne Maloney on Georg Lukacs' The Historical Novel; Lucienne Boyce assesses the historical ficion 'How to' books; Towse Harrison remembers Kirby Hall, August 1999; Mark Evans gives an introduction to the world of historical re-enactment; Methvens Booksellers in the UK begin a Classic Historical Novel series with reprints of Alfred Duggan; Janet Mary Tomson reassesses the work of Norah Lofts; Richard Lee interviews Bernard Cornwell; Dean Miller compares the sea stories of C.S. Forester and Patrick O'Brian.
Fiction by Celia Ellis. (Winner of the PC Doherty Prize)

Solander Five, Spring 1999 - Edited by Richard Lee
Stephanie Cowell on the films Shakespeare in Love and Elizabeth; Richard Lee gives the society's Guide to Literary Agents; Tom Holland on form in historical fiction; Ian Morrison wonders if history begins at twenty; Neville Firman makes a case for the radicals in the English Civil War; Anne Maloney discusses Walter Scott's Ivanhow; Linda Proud assesses Mary Renault; Richard Lee interviews Barbara Erskine; Belinda Copson looks at the work of Geoffrey Trease.
Fiction by Jan Macintosh (Winner of the Marshal Wade Prize)

Solander Four, Autumn 1998 - Edited by Richard Lee 
Richard Lee on the findings of market research into historical fiction; Hilary Green on the HNS writing course with Louis de Bernieres; Listings of historical fiction about Ancient Greece; James Hawking looks at the various guides to historical fiction, including on-line resources; Elizabeth Hawksley looks at Eighteenth century London; Anne Maloney on Geoffrey of Monmouth; Anne Perry on the filming of Cater Street; Richard Lee interviews Beryl Bainbridge; Sarah Cuthbertson interviews Steven Saylor.
Fiction by Diana Simpson (Winner of the Explore Prize) and Michel Faber

Solander Three, Spring 1998 - Edited by Richard Lee
Dean Miller on what makes good or bad historical fiction; Anna Jacobs on being on-line; Sally Zigmond on recent historical fiction prize-winners; Joanna Hines on Gadzookery, and the problems of language in historical fiction; Bernard Cornwell gives his guide to the mechanics of writing a best-seller; Duncan Noble on quasi-historical novels; Pamela Belle on her Wintercombe novels; Pamela Oldfield on the writing of Sally Lunn; Pamela Hill on Timeslip novels; Helen Hollick, interviewed by Towse Harrison; Elizabeth Chadwick, interviewed by Towse Harrison; Hugh Pruen remembers the fiction of WHG Kingston. Fiction by Hilary Green (Winner of the Kythira Prize)

Solander Two, Autumn 1997 - Edited by Richard Lee
Elizabeth Chadwick on Re-enactment and novel writing; Geoff Sadler on One Hundred and Fifty Years of Westerns; Gail Mallin on Mills and Boon; Graham Hamblin on Children's historical novels; Richard Lee gives The Society's Guide to UK Literary Agents and Publishers; Derek Wilson compares the merits of writing history and fiction; Michael Decker assesses the historical fiction of the ancients; Alexander Kent and Matthew Kneale talk about their own writing lives; Jesse Knight surveys Rafael Sabatini's work; Hugh Prune remembers GA Henty; William Orford interviews Richard Woodman.
Fiction by Ruth Downie

Solander One, Spring 1997 - Edited by Richard Lee
Joanna Trollope In defence of the Historical Novel; Richard Woodman on The English tradition of Writers at Sea; James Hawking on Roman History through One Hundred Novels; Dominique Nightingale compares historical fiction with heroic fantasy; Sheila Hardy discusses self-publishing in the UK; Melvyn Bragg on his book Credo, and powerful women throughout history; E.V. Thompson and Gloria Cook on the lure of Cornwall; Paula Marshall on Mills and Boon; Eleanor Thomson on writing prequels; Matthew Kneale on JG Farrell; Mark Valentine on Peter Vansittart.
Fiction by Faye Robertson.