HNR Issue 36 (May 2006)
Sparrowhawk Book Five: Revolution
This fifth book of six in the series picks up in June of 1765 and follows the debate and turmoil…
Rosetta
As a child, Rose Hall is fascinated with language and stories. When her father reveals that she was named for…
The Bells of Burracombe
The village of Burracombe on the edge of Dartmoor is the setting for the first in Lilian Harry’s Devon series.…
Surrender
Set in Albany, New York, in 1755, Clare begins her trilogy with this wonderful story. Blackmailed into serving the wily…
The Greener Shore
Briga, wife of the chief druid, Ainvar, becomes the first true Gael of Ainvar’s tribe. The first to leap upon…
The Nightingale’s Nest
Married and widowed by the Great War in less than a week, Pamela Griffe evolves into a composed and controlled…
War & Pieces
The author joined the Royal New Zealand Navy, aged eighteen, in 1941, and I suspect that this novel is based…
Hearing By Jael
In 1860, fifteen-year-old Frances Boullet received a forty-volume diary set. Over the years, she recorded the history of her family…
Madman
A Greek academy in Palestine is missing. Callimachus of Athens, the school’s patron, sends his servant, Tallis, to investigate. The…
Penumbra
In the 1950s in Drexel, Mississippi, it is difficult, if not nigh onto impossible, for a woman like Jade Dupree…
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