
A newsletter reviewing historical novels which I can highly recommend, with settings ranging from prehistory to the immediate aftermath of WWII in 1945.
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Victory is the eleventh novel in the Kydd Sea Adventures, and it’s hard to imagine that any devotee of the series will not guess by its title what the climax of this novel will be. But before the fleets come together off Cape Trafalgar, whe...
The title of Invasion, tenth in the Kydd series, refers to the looming assault by Napoleon against the shores of Britain. After Thomas Paine Kydd wins another ingenious but minor victory against the French who are amassing landing craft for...
An index of reviews in this Substack series
This index and the full archive of over 700 reviews of historical novels, set in the Celtic world and many other times and places, is available for paid subscribers. Help me devote more time to c...
The Coin of Carthage is the perfect complement to a novel such as Durham’s Pride of Carthage, which treats Hannibal’s war against Rome from the viewpoint of central players in that great drama. Bryher’s novel focuses instead on a handful of...
Holland’s title The Belt of Gold has two meanings. On the one hand, there is the golden belt of office worn by a highly ranked minister of the Byzantine emperor; on the other, there is the belt awarded to the grand champion of the chariot r...
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Margaret Tomlinson is a reader, writer and enthusiastic gardener. She is in the process of transferring her reviews of historical novels to Substack from the HistoricalNovels.info website, which will be discontinued later this year.
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