HNR Issue 42 (November 2007)
Conqueror
This second book in Stephen Baxter’s Time Tapestry series, an alternative history epic, spans the history of England from 453…
A Pigeon And A Boy
Editors' choice
It is always a pleasure to read a good translation of well-regarded book by one of another country’s premier writers.…
The Reincarnationist
While visiting Rome sixteen months ago, Josh Ryder barely survived a minor terrorist incident. Ever since, he’s had traumatic flashbacks…
Random Acts Of Heroic Love
Editors' choice
In 1992, Leo Deakin awakens in a hospital in South America to the shocking news of the death of his…
Kiss Me Goodbye: Finding Love Among the Ashes of the Civil War
In 1861, the author’s great-grandfather, James McCormick, is an Irish Catholic immigrant who lives in Potsdam, New York. He is…
The Spanish Bow
Can art save us from ourselves? In her elegant debut, Ms. Romano-Lax ponders this timeless question through the ambitious tale…
Confessions Of A Jane Austen Addict
Contemporary single Courtney Stone has an unfaithful fiancé and hides her despair by reading Jane Austen novels. One morning she…
My Dirty Little Book Of Stolen Time
Charlotte is a whore in Copenhagen. It is 1897, and business is bad, so she and Fru Schleswig, an older…
Crusade
Editors' choice
Crusade is an epic tale of war, political intrigue, religious fervor, greed, and passion set in Acre of 1274. It…
Diamond in the Sky
Thadeus McElwain came to Leadville, Colorado, shortly after the Silver Panic of 1893. All he wanted was to leave behind…
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