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Historical Novels

Margaret Tomlinson

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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Salammbo by Gustave Flaubert

Salammbo offers a romantic story of doomed love set between the first two Punic Wars, during a revolt of mercenaries whose riot at a feast spirals into exile, betrayal and civil war. While the rebellious troops struggle for survival in a ha...

6 days ago
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The Renaissance and Tudor England

An index of reviews in this Substack series

This index of over 70 reviews and the full archive of over 700 reviews of historical novels is available for paid subscribers. Help me devote more time to creating indexes. It’s easy to subscribe...

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Mother of Kings by Poul Anderson

Mother of Kings magnificently re-imagines the life of the famous tenth-century queen Gunnhild, wife of Norway’s king Eirik Blood-Ax, and mother of some nine children, including quite a few who claimed the title of king. Among the most remar...

9 days ago

Caribbee by Julian Stockwin

Caribbee, number fourteen in Julian Stockwin’s series of “Kydd Sea Adventures,” offers its fans one more reason to envy the life these novels have won for the author. In previous afterwords he has described his pattern of spending six month...

10 days ago

Trust by Hernan Diaz

Trust opens in the form of a short, tragic novel by a fictional author about a man born to a wealthy family who becomes even more wealthy—massively wealthy—by trading in bonds during the economic downturns in the first half of the twentieth...

11 days ago

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  • Margaret Tomlinson

    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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