HNR Issue 50 (November 2009)
Guardian of the Flame
Sophia passes her days shut up in the lighthouse of Alexandria, blaming herself for a tragedy of twenty years past.…
The Silver Eagle
Editors' choice
The Silver Eagle, the second in a trilogy, picks up from where the earlier book, The Forgotten Legion, left off.…
Cleopatra’s Daughter
In 30 BC, after the defeat and suicide of Antony and Cleopatra, their twin children, Alexander Helios and Cleopatra Selene,…
Delilah
As a young girl, Delilah is brought to the Temple of Atargatis in Ascalon, one of the Five Cities of…
Girl Mary
Romanian-born bestseller Petru Popescu imagines the girlhood of Jesus’s mother in this European-flavored literary work. We first see the tall…
Claudius
Editors' choice
Emperor Claudius needs to secure his tenuous position in Rome and sets his sights on victory in Britain as a…
The Gladiator
The Gladiator is Simon Scarrow’s ninth book in his Roman series featuring Macro and Cato. This time the intrepid duo…
Empire: Wounds of Honour
Marcus Valerius is a young Roman aristocrat whose family is judicially murdered on a trumped-up treason charge. Keeping just ahead…
King of Kings
Harry Sidebottom continues his Warrior of Rome series where part one – Fire in the East – ended. Marcus Clodius…
A Land Beyond Ravens
At the very end of this novel, the fourth and final book of Guler’s Macsen’s Treasure series, Claerwen tells her…
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