Steve Donoghue
This Wonderful Year
Mark Benno’s cheerful, delightful throwback of a novel is subtitled The Adventures of Mister Edward Pamprill, and that is exactly…
The Devil’s Den
There are two parallel stories moving forward in Timothy Ashby’s tightly controlled and extremely satisfying novel Devil’s Den: the main…
The Bow of Heaven: Book 1: The Other Alexander
Editors' choice
Levkoff’s beautifully written and thrillingly good Roman historical novel opens with a crotchety 85-year-old man looking back on his eventful…
1066: Knight Haralde
In Wright’s previous volume, 1066: The Healer, readers were introduced to young Riennes de Montford, the physician, and his brother…
The Flowers of Evil
Readers of Simon Acland’s previous book (The Waste Land), in which the adventures of 12th-century crusader Hugh de Verdon are…
Defender of the Realm; Defender of the North
In Holst’s enthusiastic and winning two-volume tale, likable, unassuming cobbler James Hoade falls in love, stumbles into warfare, gets knighted…
Beloved Pilgrim
Set against the vividly realized backdrop of the disastrous crusade of 1101, Hawthorne’s latest medieval historical novel consistently broadens and…
Montfort: The Early Years; The Viceroy; The Revolutionary; The Angel with the Sword
When reading through the ample “historical context” notes that follow each volume of Katherine Ashe’s utterly remarkable tetralogy of novels…
The Marlowe Conspiracy
Historical novelists would be lost without the dashing, mysterious figure of Christopher Marlowe, and they’d be equally lost if there…
The Tapestry of Bronze Series: The Children of Tantalus; The Road to Thebes; The Arrows of Artemis
The long and complicated story Grossack and Underwood unfold in their thrilling and absorbing trio of books, The Children of…
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