HNR Issue 42 (November 2007)
Dead Man In Paradise
This book is the winner of the 2006 Charles Taylor Prize, Canada’s award for the best literary non-fiction. It’s a…
Lieutenant Fury
1793. In France, the Royalists are clinging to power in Toulon, but the Republicans are gaining ground. Lieutenant Fury, returning…
The Traitors’ Gate
Charles Dickens is alive and well. Well, sort of; at least his spirit lives on in bestselling author Avi’s latest…
The Theory Of Clouds
Editors' choice
“All children become sad in the late afternoon, for they begin to comprehend the passage of time. The light starts…
Every Past Thing
When Pamela Thompson saw Edwin Romanzo Elmer’s painting, Mourning Picture, she saw “worlds that want telling.” This book is her…
Sink The Shigure
Fictional renditions of the peril faced by World War II submariners play a central role in historical novels of naval…
Sandhills Boy
Rather than being an historical novel, this is a book by and about an historical novelist. Moreover, this memoir deals…
Tokyo Year Zero
Tokyo, August 1946: one year after Japan’s surrender and the extensive bombings of its capital. The murdered bodies of two…
Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Ravens Of Avalon
Boudica, a Briton princess, arrives on the Isle of Mona to study the old ways with other children of chieftains…
The Admiral’s Daughter
It is 1803, and Commander Thomas Kydd’s mission is to patrol home waters in order to suppress the smuggling trade.…
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