HNR Issue 55 (February 2011)
The Second Duchess
Editors' choice
Have you ever read a book that you wish you had written? Have you ever read a book that you…
The Golden Mean: A novel of Alexander the Great
Lyon’s debut historical novel is actually more about Aristotle than Alexander, although their lives were intimately entwined for a considerable…
The Queen’s Captive
The third installment of the Thornleigh Saga depicts the many conflicts of Mary Tudor’s reign, illustrated by family ambition as…
The Irish Princess
She says she is sometimes mistaken for the English princess, Anne Boleyn’s daughter Elizabeth, with whom she shares a given…
The Rage of Achilles
From its opening pages in which a young servant girl (who may or may not be Achilles’s mother) in the…
The Tudor Secret
Editors' choice
During the last days of King Edward VI, in the year 1553, Squire Brendan Prescott finds himself immersed in the…
Lily of the Nile
After unwittingly helping her mother commit suicide, Cleopatra Selene, daughter of Egypt’s Queen Cleopatra and Mark Antony, is taken from…
Den of Wolves
The modern historical novel tends to stay within the bounds of known facts, confining its invention to the areas where…
The Double Crown
Following coincidentally upon the recent republication of Pauline Gedge’s Child of the Morning (see HNR, Aug. 2010, p.19), this is…
By Royal Decree
By Royal Decree, the third novel in Kate Emerson’s Secrets of the Tudor Court series (The Pleasure Palace, Between Two…
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