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Best Novel Lists and Reviewer Profiles

Best Historical Novels 2009 and 2008 by Margaret Donsbach
Historical Fiction Picks From 2009 by Annis
Reviewer Profile: Annis
Reviewer Profile: Sue Gillmor


Articles

Boudica: Celtic War Queen Who Challenged Rome by Margaret Donsbach at HistoryNet.com (this article originally appeared in the April 2004 issue of Military History magazine; for a bibliography of sources, click here)

The Children of Franco's Orphanages by C.J. Sansom, author of Winter in Madrid

Following van Gogh in Auvers-sur-Oise by Sheramy Bundrick, author of Sunflowers

Gifts for Historical Fiction Fans

Green World/Stone World: The Two Worlds of Joan of Arc by Margaret Donsbach (this article originally appeared in the Spring 2008 issue of Black Night)

Historical Novels about Artists: Part I (prehistoric times through the 17th century) by Margaret Donsbach

Historical Novels about Artists: Part II (the 18th and 19th centuries) by Margaret Donsbach

Imagining the Past in Paris by Thad Carhart, author of Across the Endless River

The Historical Novels of Lion Feuchtwanger by Margaret Donsbach

Historical Novels Set in Medieval Sicily by Margaret Donsbach

Mary Renault by Linda Proud, author of A Tabernacle for the Sun

The Old "Loller" Woman: Violence and Death in Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall by Erwin Biener

Rosemary Sutcliff by Annis

Sacagawea: The Seduction of Mythology, the Paucity of Facts by Thad Carhart, author of Across the Endless River

The Scholar's Supernova by Margaret Donsbach at the Saudi Aramco World magazine's website (this article about Ali Ibn Ridwan and the supernova of 1006 originally appeared in the July/August 2006 issue)

Tales of Niagara Falls by Cathy Marie Buchanan, author of The Day the Falls Stood Still


Author Interviews

Annamaria Alfieri (Patricia King), author of City of Silver, July 31, 2009
Susanne Alleyn, author of The Cavalier of the Apocalypse, Aug. 10, 2009
Debra Austin, author of Daughter of Kura, September 14, 2009
Madison Smartt Bell, author of Devils Dream, November 4, 2009
Katharine Beutner, author of Alcestis, March 24, 2010
David Blixt, author of The Master of Verona, March 9, 2009
Cathy Marie Buchanan, author of The Day the Falls Stood Still, 8/25/09

Thad Carhart, author of Across the Endless River, October 14, 2009
Elizabeth Chadwick, author of The Greatest Knight, September 25, 2009
Elizabeth Chadwick, author of The Scarlet Lion, March 1, 2010
Barbara Chase-Riboud, author of Sally Hemings, February 17, 2010
Clare Clark, author of Savage Lands, March 10, 2010
Stephanie Cowell, author of Claude and Camille, April 20, 2010
Libby Cone, author of War on the Margins, July 4, 2009
Donna Woolfolk Cross, author of Pope Joan, July 9, 2009

Lindsey Davis, author of Rebels and Traitors, January 27, 2010
Catherine Delors, author of For the King, July 9, 2010
Ruth Downie, author of Persona Non Grata, July 2, 2009
Carola Dunn, author of Sheer Folly, September 17, 2009
India Edghill, author of Delilah, December 8, 2009
Erica Eisdorfer, author of The Wet Nurse's Tale, August 7, 2009
Anna Elliott, author of Twilight of Avalon, May 4, 2009
Eva Etzioni-Halevy, author of The Triumph of Deborah, November 5, 2009

Mary Fahnestock-Thomas, editor of Georgette Heyer: A Critical Retrospective, February 20, 2010
Marina Fiorato, author of The Botticelli Secret, March 31, 2010
Irene Fleming, author of The Edge of Ruin, May 17, 2010
Alan Gordon, author of The Parisian Prodigal, February 1, 2010
C.W. Gortner, author of The Confessions of Catherine de Medici,
May 26, 2010
C.W. Gortner, author of The Last Queen, May 5, 2009
Philippa Gregory, author of The White Queen, August 18, 2009
Sandra Gulland, author of Mistress of the Sun, April 20, 2009

Steven F. Havill, author of Race for the Dying, October 3, 2009
Susan Higginbotham, author of The Traitor's Wife, April 8, 2009
Susan Higginbotham, author of Hugh and Bess, August 3, 2009
Helen Hollick, author of The Kingmaking, February 23, 2009
June Hutton, author of Underground, April 22, 2010
J. Sydney Jones, author of Requiem in Vienna, February 3, 2010
Jeanne Kalogridis, author of The Scarlet Contessa, July 16, 2010

M.L. Malcolm, author of Heart of Lies, June 9, 2010
Jude Morgan, author of Charlotte and Emily, April 28, 2010
Carla Nayland, author of Paths of Exile, August 27, 2009
Howard Norman, author of What Is Left the Daughter, July 13, 2010
S.J. Parris, author of Heresy, March 19, 2010
Kamran Pasha, author of Mother of the Believers, April 14, 2009
Sara Poole, author of Poison, August 4, 2010
Barbara Corrado Pope, author of Cézanne's Quarry, November 13, 2009

Deanna Raybourn, author of Silent on the Moor, May 11, 2009
Edward Rutherfurd, author of New York, November 11, 2009
C.J. Sansom, author of Winter in Madrid, March 19, 2009
Steven Saylor, author of Empire, September 1, 2010
Susan Holloway Scott, author of The French Mistress, July 7, 2009
Mary Sharratt, author of Daughters of the Witching Hill, April 14, 2010
G.G. Vandagriff, author of The Last Waltz, June 29, 2009
Jeri Westerson, author of Serpent in the Thorns, October 5, 2009

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