HNR Issue 39 (February 2007)
Memoirs of a Highland Lady
“On looking back I find little essential to regret and much, Oh so much, to be thankful for”. This is…
A Day of Small Beginnings
In early 20th century Poland, Itzik, a young Jewish boy, kills a Polish Catholic and runs to the graveyard for…
The Taste of Innocence
In 1833, Charles Morwellan, 8th Earl of Meredith, returns home resigned to marry; it is time and it will please…
The Officer’s Daughter
Editors' choice
Sixteen-year-old Marta always wanted to be a soldier like her father, an officer in the Polish army. Instead she has…
Measuring the World
With its lively translation, Daniel Kehlmann’s Measuring the World tells the parallel stories of two scientists who were child prodigies,…
The Tyrants
This large-format hardback is an anthology of fifty of the most autocratic leaders the world has known. All the usual…
Grant and Sherman: The Friendship that Won the Civil War
Ulysses S. Grant and William T. Sherman are universally recognized as the most distinguished Union officers of the American Civil…
Confessions of a Viscount
If you are a regular reader of historical romance novels, you’ve probably encountered this plot before. Karr’s storyline is not…
The Savage Garden
In 1958, Cambridge art history student, Adam Strickland, goes to Tuscany to work on the Mannerist garden of the Villa…
The School for Heiresses
A delightful collection of four passionate Regency-era short stories by different authors is tied together through the heroines, all pupils…
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