HNR Issue 36 (May 2006)
Arthur and George
I should perhaps point out that as Julian Barnes is one of my favourite contemporary prose writers, I approached his…
Blue Man Falling
Blue Man Falling is set during the Battle of France in 1939-40. It follows the fortunes of two RAF pilots,…
A Woman of Cairo
Set in Cairo in 1919-1953, this book paints a portrait of Egypt in the days when it was a British…
Strivers Row
Last of his “City of Fire” series, Kevin Baker’s conflagration this time is the Harlem riots of 1943. His double…
For Better, For Worse
This novel, by an author new to me, set in fictitious Yorkshire towns in World War Two and beyond is…
Knife Edge (The Royal Marines Saga #5)
Towards the end of the 20th century Lieutenant Ross Blackwood contemplates the bleak future of the Royal Marines as they…
Mark of the Lion
American Jade del Cameron served as an ambulance driver in France in the Great War and saw her love, pilot…
Blood Moon Over Britain
Cicely Winterbourne is working at Bletchley Park in 1942 when two men she works with seem to commit suicide. She…
Every Mother’s Son
Molly Keegan and Bernie O’Sullivan have been friends since their infancy. As girls they fled Ireland to find a new…
Massacre River
The 1937 program of ethnic cleansing of Haitians ordered by the Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo gets little mention in the…
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