2009
The Golden Cockerel: A New Odyssey
Kenneth Allen’s subtitle could also read A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Quest. Tongue-in-cheek, The Golden Cockerel…
Newton and the Counterfeiter
Isaac Newton is celebrated for his part in the English scientific revolution, but it his part in the contemporary financial…
Pop Goes the Weasel
Albert Jack only reluctantly took to studying the history of nursery rhymes, but then found it to be his most…
The Path of the Gods
The Path of the Gods is a story of 5th-century BC classical Athens as told by Amyntas in his old…
Gentleman Captain
Fictional accounts of the Royal Navy in the Age of Sail, while exciting, tend to follow a predictable storyline of…
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 Double Crown
Following coincidentally upon the recent republication of Pauline Gedge’s Child of the Morning (see HNR, Aug. 2010, p.19), this is…
Dancing with Mr. Darcy
Collected in Dancing with Mr. Darcy are the winner of the Jane Austen Short Story Award and nineteen other selections.…
Landwaster
This is the story of Harald Hardraada, half-brother to the King of Norway, who leads his Viking mercenaries on a…
Made in Hungary: A Life Forged by History
“ . . . to all who wander the world in search of belonging.” Maria Krenz’s memoir of her early…
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