HNR Issue 55 (February 2011)
Pale Rose of England
Sandra Worth’s Pale Rose of England focuses on one of British history’s more obscure heroines: Lady Catherine Gordon, the highborn…
Queen of Cities
The year is 1453, and the army of Turkish Sultan Mehmed is camped outside the walls of Constantinople while the…
The Queen of Last Hopes: The Story of Margaret of Anjou
In her latest novel, Susan Higginbotham takes on the task of redeeming yet another maligned historical figure: Margaret of Anjou,…
The Oath
In 1326, King Edward II of England was faced with civil war. His wife, Queen Isabella, had returned from France…
Valley of Dry Bones
In 1274, in the aftermath of the Barons’ War, a group of travelers arrives at Tyndal Priory, where the quick-witted…
Falconer and the Death of Kings
William Falconer, cleric and regent master at Oxford University, is called to Paris to learn about the Church’s condemnations of…
Khan: Empire of Silver
Blind obedience to the Khan is no longer taken for granted in this fourth novel of the Mongol empire saga.…
The Valcourt Heiress
England, 1278: Marianna de Luce de Mornay is running away from her mother — a real witch — and an…
A Dead Man’s Secret
In Simon Beaufort’s sixth foray into 12th-century England, the king we know as Henry I orders Sir Geoffrey Mappestone to…
Queen Hereafter: A Novel of Margaret of Scotland
Margaret is a young Saxon princess shipwrecked on the shores of Scotland. The only way that she, her mother, sister…
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