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Historical Novel Society | Book Reviews

02.05.2025

Rapture - Historical Novel Society

Emily Maguire’s new novel, Rapture, takes as its inspiration the legend of Pope Joan, reworking key elements of the myth to create a brilliant work of great power and beauty. The story starts in 9th-century Mainz, Germany, where Agnes lives with her father, an English priest. Although his vows include celibacy, Agnes’s father has slept […]

Historical Novel Society | Book Reviews

02.05.2025

State of Emergency - Historical Novel Society

Singapore, 1963. What can you say about a young woman, Siew Li, who walked away, without warning, from her twin children and husband? Jeremy Tiang says a lot as he weaves an always gripping and mostly grim story of people caught up in the long conflict between the forces of the right and left. That […]

Historical Novel Society | Book Reviews

02.08.2025

Words Matter: The Story of Hans and Sophie Scholl, and the White Rose Resistance - Historical Novel Society

This fictionalized biography in verse for middle-grade readers narrates the story of siblings Hans and Sophie Scholl, members of the White Rose Resistance that circulated leaflets about the truth of Hitler’s genocidal war. Pazner sets the stage with Hitler’s takeover of a Germany struggling through the Great Depression, preaching hatred against traditional scapegoats—Jews, Romani, LGBTQ […]

Historical Novel Society | Book Reviews

02.08.2025

Serpent Visions - Historical Novel Society

While most can recall the Greek heroes Odysseus and Oedipus, most (including me) would not remember the name of the blinded seer who appears as a side character in both stories. Teiresias, that hobbling old man who is the deus ex machina in stories stuffed with “deus,” has an extraordinary story himself. In Bronze Age […]

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