HNR Issue 36 (May 2006)
The Masque of the Black Tulip
Willig’s breezy second offering in her series of Napoleonic-era spy romances features the intrepid and amusing Henrietta Uppington, closely guarding…
The Vanishing Point
The vanishing point: where a ship disappears over the horizon. Trained as a physician by her father, Hannah Powers must…
Purity of Blood
Editors' choice
Diego Alatriste survives in the Spain of 1623 by taking commissions as a sword for hire while maintaining a firm…
The Last Witchfinder
Jennet Stearne’s childhood wasn’t typical, but it was happy, or at least it began that way. Her home life morally…
Cloth Girl
Editors' choice
In the mid-1930s, naïve bride Audrey Turton travels to Ghana to join her colonial officer husband. At the same time,…
A Game Of Soldiers
1914 is a great attraction for alternative historians. Whereas other conflicts, notably the Second World War, loomed over the horizon…
Van Rijn
The subject of Sarah Miano’s second novel is Rembrandt van Rijn. This is by no means a conventional fictional biography…
The Parliament House
Christopher Redmayne is feeling pleased with himself; his latest architectural project is finished and its merchant owner, Francis Polegate, is…
Virgin Earth
Charles I is on the verge of plunging England into civil war, and John Tradescant, royal gardener, flees the grief…
1610: A Sundial in a Grave
“It’s about sex, cruelty, and forgiveness.” Thus does Mary Gentle commence her marvelously inventive novel of espionage, assassination, and precognitive…
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