HNR Issue 37 (August 2006)
A Map of Glass
Set in Ontario, Jane Urquhart’s latest novel is both contemporary and historical, though the rather disturbing prologue doesn’t make…
Blue Nude
Rosner’s quiet, subtle second novel (after The Speed of Light, 2001) once again shows the effect of history on…
The Other Eden
In 1924 Eleanor Rose turns 21 and inherits her family estate in Louisiana, ‘Eden’s Meadow’. Left an orphan as…
A Broken Mirror
As the biographical note explains, Rodoreda is a Catalan writer now being rediscovered as literary force more than 20…
The Rebels of Ireland
Editors' choice
Rutherfurd’s latest bestseller concludes his sweeping look at Irish history first begun in The Princes of Ireland (Dublin in…
A Sound Like Thunder
The novel is set in Fairhope, Alabama, a small Gulf Coast town during the early years of World War…
Samsara Moon
Samsara Moon is the debut novel from HNS member S.H. Post. The story follows the life of British military…
Voices from a Time
With Voices from a Time, winner of the Zerilli-Marimo Prize in Italy, Silvia Bonucci weaves a spellbinding psychological tale…
Summer of the Midnight Sun
Peterson begins her Alaskan Quest series with this volume, set in 1915. Leah Barringer lives with her brother, Jacob,…
Walk Proud, Stand Tall
In 1913, legendary lawman Lin Garrett arrives in Flagstaff, Arizona, where he was the sheriff back in the 1880s. Seventy…
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