HNR Issue 40 (May 2007)
Resurrectionist
The setting is Regency London. Robbing fresh graves to supply the city’s anatomy schools and hospitals is a profitable business;…
Never Too Late
Josepha Black is a young slave, living in Louisiana, who decides to protect herself from the pain of loss by…
Woman of Ill Fame
Nora Simms, a prostitute, sails to San Francisco in 1849, hoping to do well for herself during the gold rush.…
Canaan
The American Civil War has ended, and the nation begins to heal itself from four torturous years. Canaan is about…
The Mesalliance
St Osyth Priory, 1811: Lady Allegra Humphrey is devastated when her father, the Earl of Witherton, shoots himself. 1812: terrible…
Angelica
Nothing is as it seems in internationally bestselling author Phillips’ third novel. Set in Victorian England, this tale of the…
Afternoons with Emily
This novel, which echoes of the style of some novels of the 19th century, immediately enveloped me, and it has…
Imposture
Dr Polidori was the youngest ever graduate in medicine, an unfortunate achievement as, through sheer incompetence, all his patients died.…
The Nature of Monsters
This is Clare Clark’s second novel and, like her first, The Great Stink, it is immersed in the filth, chaos…
Attila: The Gathering of the Storm
This is William Napier’s second part of his Attila trilogy. The novel is set in the 5th century, with the…
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