HNR Issue 54 (November 2010)
In the Grip of the Minotaur
The story is set in the Bronze Age Mediterranean, where King Minos rules the sea with his fleet and terrorizes…
Valeria’s Cross
Emperor Diocletian (r.284-305 A.D.) is a brilliant leader whose innovative reforms reinvigorate the Roman Empire, but when his power starts…
Theodora: Actress, Empress, Whore
What a great subject! There can be few figures as controversial as Theodora, saint to some, sinner to others, whore…
Child of the Northern Spring
The story of Arthur and Guinevere has been told and retold numerous times, but this first volume of Woolley’s Guinevere…
The Winter Sea
Historical subjects come to life for a modern novelist in Kearsley’s fascinating The Winter Sea. To explain how and why…
Lady of Hay
In 1970, when Jo Clifford is a university student in Edinburgh, she is hypnotized as part of a study on…
My Name is Memory
My Name Is Memory is the story of Daniel, a soul who has lived many lives for over a thousand…
The Lady’s Slipper
The Civil War and its aftermath have finished and the King is back on his throne, but the memories of…
The Countess and the King
Scott’s latest foray into the realm of royal mistresses features an unlikely candidate: Katherine Sedley, blessed with little beauty but…
The Princeling
This is book 3 of the Morland Dynasty series, in which Cynthia Harrod-Eagles traces 500 years of British history from…
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