HNR Issue 55 (February 2011)
Livia: Empress of Rome
Livia, wife of Augustus Caesar, is one of the most vilified figures in ancient history. Writers from Tacitus to Robert…
Eclipse
This is the story of perhaps the greatest racehorse of all time, unbeaten throughout his career and so feared by…
Late for Tea at the Deer Palace
In the early 1980s, I was teaching English in the south of England to Iraqi trainee helicopter pilots, who would…
The English Ghost: Spectres Through Time
The prolific Peter Ackroyd’s latest book is a collection of supposedly factual reports of supernatural occurrences in England, from the…
Daughter of Xanadu
Princess Emmajin, the granddaughter of the Great Khubilai Khan, wants to be a soldier, a dream unheard of for a…
Panorama
Editors' choice
Originally published in German in 1968, and now finally (and finely) translated into English, Panorama is Prague author H. G.…
Jane and the Madness of Lord Byron
Jane Austen is getting old. In Barron’s tenth mystery featuring the author of Pride and Prejudice as amateur sleuth, Miss…
Dangerous to Know
In her latest book, set in Normandy, France in the late 1800s, Tasha Alexander has placed her previously successful heroine,…
Killer of Crying Deer
In 1669, an abducted youth is shipwrecked in the Florida Keys. Readers entering Henry’s world will encounter an unrelentingly detailed…
The Leaves of Fate
Between 1610 and 1630, the Jamestown settlement in the English colonies began to take shape – the colonists left the…
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