HNR Issue 52 (May 2010)
One Candle’s Light
At twelve years old, William Brewster meets a party of courtiers traveling through Scrooby and is instantly drawn to William…
Savage Lands
Louisiana in the early years of the 18th century; this is a novel about the French settlers who attempted to…
The Heretic’s Wife
Kate Gough and her brother maintain a London bookshop during the reign of Henry VIII. Their “inventory” contains contraband Lutheran…
No Will but His
Of all Henry VIII’s wives, perhaps none is so equally dismissed and pitied as Katherine Howard, the child bride executed…
Till the Day Go Down
The border country between England and Scotland is a lawless and dangerous place in the mid-16th century, so when Harry…
Knight of Pleasure
Noblewomen of the early 1400s are accustomed to being political pawns in dynastic struggles. Isobel’s father wed her as a…
By Fire, By Water
In 1492, three events would change Iberia and change the world: Isabella and Ferdinand’s reconquest of Muslim Granada, the expulsion…
Secrets of the Tudor Court
This is another Tudor novel, this time seen from the perspective of Mary Howard, cousin and lady-in-waiting to Anne Boleyn,…
The Sonnets
In 1592, young playwright William Shakespeare was forced on hiatus out of London due to threats of the plague. Returning…
The Bones of Avalon
Editors' choice
England 1560, and the young Queen Elizabeth is still settling into her new throne. Whilst trying to usher in a…
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