HNR Issue 54 (November 2010)
The First Ladies of Rome
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Six hundred years of the Roman Empire from Augustus to its long-drawn-out end: this is the serious work of an author who does ...Read Review
Egyptian Dawn
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The author is well known for his television documentaries which challenge various widely accepted views on early Egyptian history. Here, he argues that ...Read Review
Quest For Honour
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3154 B.C. Mesopotamia. The rapacious King Shulgi of Sumeris is planning to extend his empire northwards and capture the small city-state of Akkad. ...Read Review
Theodora: Actress, Empress, Whore
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What a great subject! There can be few figures as controversial as Theodora, saint to some, sinner to others, whore to most. Stella ...Read Review
Rival to the Queen
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Not since Victoria Holt’s My Enemy the Queen (1978) have I encountered another novel about the complex rivalry between Queen Elizabeth I and ...Read Review
The Countess and the King
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Scott’s latest foray into the realm of royal mistresses features an unlikely candidate: Katherine Sedley, blessed with little beauty but with a ...Read Review
Impatient with Desire
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It is hard to visit the Sierra Nevada Mountains and not think of the historic Donner Party. As your car climbs those twisted ...Read Review
Dracula, My Love: The Secret Journals of Mina Harker
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James explores the story of Dracula, in 1890 England and Transylvania, from the viewpoint of Mina Harker, bringing an old story hauntingly back to ...Read Review
Desiree
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Fourteen-year-old Desiree, a merchant’s daughter living at the time of the French Revolution, meets a dashing young military officer, Napoleon Bonaparte. They ...Read Review
‘Nada
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1936 Mexico is the setting for this hard-boiled tale of greed and promises to keep. Vernon Culley, a bookish engineer from Kansas City, is ...Read Review