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📗📖📘 A warm welcome to our feed to historical fiction readers, writers and publishers across the world.
Member benefits: 4 Historical Novels Review magazines a year, event discounts and access to member-only Facebook groups: historicalnovelsociety.org/m…
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'Sumptuously full of 14th century historical detail. Military fiction at its finest.'
Editor's Choice: The Captain of Venice by Christian Cameron, reviewer Susie Helme
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'A 17th-Century portrait of Saint Agnes looted from Naples in 2004 had apparently been painted over to appear less recognisable...' Discover how AI is helping the fight against art theft:
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What beats reading a book in your favourite chair? Reading your favourite #HistFic magazine, that's what!
Join us as a member to receive a paper copy of Historical Novels Review four times a year. Check out past issues here: historicalnovelsociety.org/m…
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What a novel within a novel reveals in The Library of Leaving set in the first three decades of the 1900s: historicalnovelsociety.org/m…
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'Combines the world of Shakespeare with the dangerous intrigues of Elizabethan England. Tantalizing, with much to savor.'
Editors' Choice: Such As We Are Made Of by Clarissa Pattern, review by Patricia Furstenberg
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Forthcoming Historical Novels for 2027 featuring Marion of Sherwood, Shakespeare, Canada's first prime minister, Sherlock Holmes' mother and others: historicalnovelsociety.org/f…
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Congratulations to our members on their new #HistoricalFiction releases! They span many eras, including medieval times, the Gilded Age and WWI: historicalnovelsociety.org/n…
Cryptic padlock from a 400-year-old shipwreck finally opened. Courtesy of Live Science:
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'Follows the violent trail of Peasant's Revolt of 1381 led by Wat Tyler. History as poetic breaking news.'
Editors' Choice: Doom Painting by A. K. Blakemore, reviewer Carolyn Morgan
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How Elizabeth Letts binds a Moroccan boy, an English veterinarian and a French nurse together in her historical novel: historicalnovelsociety.org/m…
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Ashton Lattimore’s rollicking ride through the Prohibition era Black communities of Martha’s Vineyard and Boston: historicalnovelsociety.org/w…
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How Elizabeth Lim’s first adult historical novel takes its inspiration from the ancient Chinese version of Cinderella; historicalnovelsociety.org/f…
'Set in a monastery in 16th-century Dorset, England. Poignant. Unique. Extraordinary.'
Editor's Choice: Beyond Where Words Can Go: A Novel in 200 Sonnets by Richard Smith, reviewer Keira Morgan
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Kate Atkinson on her latest novel set in post-WWII England: historicalnovelsociety.org/b…
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Rose Tremain on reinterpreting du Maurier’s iconic novel Rebecca: historicalnovelsociety.org/a…
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Congratulations to our members on their new #HistoricalFiction releases! Choose from tales about Elizabeth I, novelist Kate Chopin, painter Emily Carr and others: historicalnovelsociety.org/n…
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'Explores the violence against the Osage and Cherokee upon which the wealth of prominent families in Oklahoma was based. Gripping and immersive.'
Editors' Choice: Death in the Tallgrass by Andrea L. Rogers, reviewer Lyn Miller-Lachmann
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'In 1920s Oklahoma, a bigamous bootlegger lives with four wives. Fast-paced, immersive, lyrical."
Editors' Choice: The Four Wives and Five Deaths of Richard Milford by Nafissa Thompson-Spires, reviewer Catherine Mathis
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An incredible new study has determined that the majority of the artisans who created the Terra-Cotta Army were women and juveniles @SmithsonianMag . smithsonianmag.com/smart-new…
Georgette Heyer’s Regency novels and their authorised sequel Henrietta: historicalnovelsociety.org/l…
