HNR Issue 42 (November 2007)
Outlaw Hearts
Outlaw Hearts suffers from what I’d like to term the Coincidence Plot (akin to movie critic Roger Ebert’s Idiot Plot,…
Death and the Devil
Set against the backdrop of the building of one of the world’s largest cathedrals and the power struggles between the…
Remembered
Véronique Girard’s mother has recently died, and it transpires that Lord Marchand, both her and her mother’s employer, has arranged…
Justice for the Damned
In the spring of 1272, Eleanor, the 22-year-old prioress of Tyndal Abbey, travels to Amesbury Priory to recover from a…
The Generals
The Generals is the second in Simon Scarrow’s quartet of novels focusing on Wellington and Napoleon. The book opens in…
Rivals for the Crown
In 1290 London, childhood friends Isabel de Burke and Rachel of Anjou are abruptly parted when King Edward I expels…
Daughter of the Sun
In pre-Columbian New Mexico, Hoshi’tiwa, a 17-year-old young woman, is a gifted potter of rain jars. The daughter of a…
Vivaldi’s Virgins
Editors' choice
Anna Maria dal Violin, abandoned as a baby, now lives as an orphan in the foundling home and cloisters of…
White Rose Rebel
Scotland, 1745. Bonnie Prince Charles lands to attempt to regain the throne and establish, once again, Scotland’s independence from the…
Master and Commander
What can a reviewer say about Patrick O’Brian? He is a classic, or at least his Aubrey & Maturin series…
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