HNR Issue 44 (May 2008)
The Serpent Garden
Riley’s exquisite tale begins in England in 1514 and follows the life of Susanna Dallet, daughter of a Flemish artist.…
The Galliard
Young Mary, Queen of Scots, returns to Scotland after years of exile and is immediately caught up in the religious…
Elizabeth and the Prince of Spain
1554: At the court of Mary Tudor of England, a man and woman are joined in a battle of words…
Michaelmas Tribute
Editors' choice
The Brehon Judge, Mara, returns in this second historical murder mystery set in the Burren in north-west Ireland. It is…
The Secret Bride
Another episode in today’s Tudormania. The story of Mary Tudor, Henry VIII’s younger sister, is relatively unknown to the reading…
The Sixth Wife
Set during the reign of England’s Edward VI, Suzannah Dunn’s fictionalized account of the final two years of the life…
The Apostate’s Tale
Margaret Frazer improves with each book. This is her seventeenth Dame Frevisse novel, and it has more depth then some…
Figures in Silk
Vanora Bennett’s debut was the fascinating Portrait of an Unknown Woman. In her second novel, she turns her attention to…
The Fire Waker
The second in what, judging by the last page, is intended to be a series, The Fire Waker should have…
Gladiatrix
Gladiatrix is set in the 2nd century, at the height of the Roman Empire, whose rulers were a discordant mix…
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