HNR Issue 52 (May 2010)
The Templar Knight
Editors' choice
The story begins in 1177. Exiled to the Holy Land ten years earlier, Arn Magnusson is now serving as Master…
The Queen’s Pawn
Eleanor of Aquitaine is a personal hero of mine, so I was very intrigued to read Christy English’s take on…
Within the Hollow Crown
One benefit of a strong market for fact-based historical fiction is the republication of the works of the finest authors…
Eleanor the Queen
First published in the 1950s and set in 12th-century France and England, Eleanor the Queen follows Eleanor of Aquitaine from…
Strange Images of Death
Commander Joe Sandilands of Scotland Yard is faced with a curious problem as he motors through France in 1926. Joe,…
The Dead Travel Fast
In 1858 Edinburgh, Theodora Lestrange finds herself an anchorless young spinster. She has just lost her grandfather, a kindly professor…
The Queen’s Pawn
Eleanor of Aquitaine is a personal hero of mine, so I was very intrigued to read Christy English’s take on…
Swords from the West
As a young writer and history buff, I loved Harold Lamb, and this reprinting of the seventeen so-called “Crusader stories”…
The King’s Daughter
Editors' choice
The King’s Daughter begins in 877 AD while King Alfred the Great of Wessex is fighting Norse invaders. He is…
The Burning Land
In The Burning Land, the fifth book of Bernard Cornwell’s Saxon Tales saga, our hero Uhtred of Bebbanburg is back…
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