HNR Issue 36 (May 2006)
Boudica: Dreaming the Serpent Spear
In this, the last of the Boudica quartet, the Boudica (“Bringer of Victory”) struggles to recover from a Roman flogging.…
The Hadassah Covenant
Set largely in the present day, this novel imagines how peace in the Middle East could come about. A raid…
Cobbers: Stories of Gallipoli 1915
Nationhood. Loyalty. Duty. These are not trivial things, even ninety years later. This book is a compendium of prose and…
The Lighthorseman
Beginning in the midst of the war-ravaged lives in battle of two Australian brothers, The Lighthorseman then shifts from WWI…
The Goodman of Paris: Treatise on Moral and Domestic Economy by a Citizen of Paris
This book of instruction by an older man for his young wife was written around 1393, and Eileen Power’s excellent…
White Blood
This novel reads like a memoir. Born in 1889, Charlie Doig had an English father and a Russian mother. He…
Boudica, Queen of the Iceni
Boudica, Queen of the Iceni, is first the daughter of a king, then the wife of a king and finally…
Out There In The Dark
Harley Hayden was a bit player in Hollywood in the early ´40s. When the U.S. went to war, many of…
Augusta Locke
Augusta Locke feels like a novel in two parts. Augusta (“Gussie”) is born to a Minnesota trapper in 1903, a…
Revolution, The Great Crisis of the British Monarchy, 1685-1720
When James II’s second wife gave birth to a son in 1688, he believed the succession was at last secure,…
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