Holland's 18th novel (after The Bear Flag ) creates a vivid montage of San Francisco in its wild beginnings. The aptly named Frances Hardheart, an escaped slave with a quick wit, a sharp tongue and a ...

Local author Cecelia Holland’s 30th novel, “Heart of the World,” will soon be available online and via bookstores. The 259-page paperback (Ring of Fire Press, September 2020) “is about the Mongol ...

Raef Corbanson and his companions return to England in this Viking-era sequel to The High City. England is going through tumultuous times as power struggles first put Ethelred the Unready on the ...

RAKÓSSY by Cecelia Holland. 243 pages. Atheneum. $5.75. The old adage, “He who has a Hungarian for a friend does not need an enemy,” may well be a national slander, but it proves true enough in the ...

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At first glance, Cecelia Holland's new novel Dragon Heart is a straight-down-the-middle work of fantasy. (The dragon depicted on the cover might just be the dead giveaway.) But there's another genre ...