HNR Issue 38 (November 2006)
The Woman In The Picture
James Wilson’s third novel is set in the late 1920s and 1930s with current day interpolations which become increasingly important…
Whispers Of The Night
For all fans of the old Gothic novel, this is an author to consider: Lydia Joyce creates a brooding atmosphere…
Jack Absolute
“Rollicking” is not a word I usually use, but it perfectly describes C.C. Humphreys’ new novel, Jack Absolute. The title…
Dark Angels
Through a Glass Darkly was a book that lingered in the memory: a lush historical setting, carefully created characters, riveting…
Triangle
Almost 150 people died in the Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire in 1911. Triangle opens with a vivid account of the…
House of Angels
The second book of a series, this recently discovered diary of Martha Morgan, mistress of an estate in Pembrokeshire, covers…
A Play Of Knaves
A Play of Knaves, the third in the Joliffe Mysteries series (a spin-off of Frazer’s well-known Sister Frevisse mysteries) finds…
Secretly Inside
The first 26 pages of this novella consist of an introduction by Jolanda Vanderwal Taylor that sets the story in…
Bedlam
Snatched off to London’s notorious madhouse Bethlem hospital in 1797, James Matthews is denied access to his family or any…
The Begotten: A Novel of the Gifted
The seed of the story is sown in Constantinople in the Year of Our Lord 731. A monk is burned…
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