HNR Issue 46 (November 2008)
The Right Hand of the Sun
Editors' choice
What is the most dramatic and extraordinary adventure ever recorded? My vote must go to Cortes’s conquest of Mexico in…
The King’s Pleasure
Originally published in 1969, Norah Lofts’s novel about the life of Katherine of Aragon is being reissued again for the…
The Gods of War
The Roman Empire. The action takes place largely in Italy and the Iberian peninsula and builds up to the…
The Forgotten Legion
In the dying days of the Roman Republic, anarchy rules in the capital. Three men maintain an uneasy triumvirate:…
Caligula: The Tyranny of Rome
The third Roman emperor was the one they called Caligula, infamous in equal part for his cruelty and his…
King of Ithaca
Young Greek soldier, Eperitus, encounters a group of warriors whilst on his way to see the oracle at Delphi.…
The Excalibur Murders
Merlin the Magician and King Arthur are reunited again in Camelot. This time they work to solve the…
Buried Too Deep
Aurelia Marcella runs a mansio, or inn, outside of York. She also does some investigating in her spare time (it…
A Question of Guilt: A Novel of Mary Stuart and the Death of Henry Darnley
When Mary Stuart is executed for plotting the downfall of her cousin, Elizabeth I, Queen of England, many…
The Wise Woman
In another reissue of her previously published work (this novel was originally released following the bestselling success of her…
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