HNR Issue 46 (November 2008)
Warrior of Rome, Part One: Fire in the East
Editors' choice
Fire in the East is part one of Dr Harry Sidebottom’s Warrior of Rome series and his first novel.…
My Lady of Cleves
The story of Henry VIII’s fourth wife, Anne of Cleves, is eloquently told in this reissue from the late…
The House of Allerbrook
This entertaining if slightly overlong followup to The House of Lanyon, which like its predecessor is…
Vlad: The Last Confession
To undertake the tale of Vlad Dracul, known as the Impaler, a 15th-century Wallachian prince whose savage battle to…
Master of Surrender
11th CENTURY In a prison inIberiain 1059, the brotherhood of The Blood Sword was created out of the…
Veil of Lies
Editors' choice
Poor Crispin Guest! In Jeri Westerson’s debut novel, set in 14th-century London and described as “a medieval noir,” Crispin…
Devil’s Brood
With her customary skill in depicting the personalities of medieval England’s most famously dysfunctional family, Penman delineates the…
The Death Maze/The Serpent’s Tale
Fair Rosamund Clifford was Henry II’s mistress, and she was buried in Goldstow Priory, near Oxford. These are established…
Dancing with Demons
In this 16th installment of Tremayne’s Fidelma of Cashel series, the High King of Ireland is killed at…
The Heretic Queen
THE HERETIC QUEEN As the sole survivor of the line of Nefertiti, a family denounced as heretics and erased from…
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