HNR Issue 50 (November 2009)
The Kingdom of Light
1240, Florence. In this, the second of the Dante mysteries, the poet finds a galley beached by the river Arno;…
Flint
Editors' choice
Young Will and his brother Ned are called away from their home in East Anglia to King Edward’s Welsh wars…
Chambers of Death
It is 1284, and no one at the Earl of Lincoln’s castle is having a happy sex life. Those who…
Hodd
One of Britain’s most critically acclaimed authors, Adam Thorpe, has written another brilliant and original novel. The device is not…
The King’s Mistress
The story is based on the theory that Alice Perrers’ first husband, Janyn Perrers, was embroiled in some dark secret…
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