HNR Issue 61 (August 2012)
The Potter’s Hand
In his capacious new novel, Wilson brings his combined skills as novelist and biographer to the life of the great…
The Dark Monk
In the dead of winter in a 17th-century Bavarian village, a priest discovers he’s been poisoned. The village executioner, his…
The Ruins of Lace
If you’ve ever admired handmade lace and wondered how it was made, you’ll be intrigued by this book. In 17th-century…
The Philosopher Prince
Waters’ sequel to Cast Not the Day is set between 355 and 361 A.D., and finds the characters of Drusus…
The Deathly Portent
The second “Lady Fan Mystery” finds the intrepid Ottilia “Tillie” Fanshawe and her husband Sir Francis with their carriage broken…
The Ghosts of Athens
Athens of 612 AD is a decadent and vulnerable city, threatened by starving barbarian tribes. Richard Blake’s protagonist, Aelric, a…
The Mountain of Gold
Young British naval captain Matthew Quinton is on his third mission, hunting down Barbary pirates in the Mediterranean when his…
The Queen’s Lover
Count Axel von Fersen is nineteen when he meets an effervescent girl his own age at the Paris Opera in…
The Sadness of the Samurai
Editors' choice
From time to time a book comes along that is staggeringly good, one that illuminates and informs readers on multiple…
The Divining
Barbara Wood’s newest historical, about a woman’s spiritual journey through the 1st-century Roman world, is a mixed effort. The segmented…
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