HNR Issue 36 (May 2006)
Penelope and Prince Charming
One fine day, Penelope Trask is walking to the village with her friend when a mad horseman gallops up to…
Stolen Waters
Set in the declining days of the Regency, the tainted hint of decadent decline is startlingly evident in this most…
Death du Jour
What a great idea, a mystery series during the French Revolution when restaurants began, chefs to the aristocrats finding themselves…
The Widow’s War
Editors' choice
As a whaler’s wife living on Cape Cod in 1761, Lyddie Berry always knew the dangers. One windy January afternoon,…
Household Words
Rhoda Taber is a pregnant, suburban, Jewish housewife in New Jersey in 1940. She doesn’t always feel like she fits…
Rebels, Turn Out Your Dead
Salt, a Yankee hemp farmer, lives in New York with his wife, a teenage son and his Tory father-in-law. The…
Winter In Madrid
Having no previous knowledge of Sansom’s prior success, both critically and commercially, with crime novels set in Tudor times, it…
The Lost Art Of Keeping Secrets
Rice, daughter of lyricist Tim Rice, has created a brilliant portrait of post-World War II London and of a specific…
Mohr
Using the innovative format of speculative fiction based on a newly-discovered cache of fifty 1920s and ´30s vintage family photographs…
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