HNR Issue 44 (May 2008)
The House at Riverton
In the halcyon days before the First World War, Grace Bradley goes to work as a maid at Riverton…
A Dark Enchantment
1869. Young Englishman Godwin Tudor visits Athens intending to photograph antiquities, but soon discovers that modern Greece is far…
It’s One of Ours
This is a story that begins on the day of the first air raids in London, 1939 and weaves…
City of the Absent
If you ever craved the simpler life that was prevalent, say, before the turn of the century, reading this…
Virgin River
Based upon actual events that occurred in Utah in 1857, Virgin River is the destination for a small wagon…
Wave of Terror
Like much of what went on in the Soviet Union during the Stalinist years, Wave of Terror is a…
Before Green Gables
In 1908 Lucy Maud Montgomery first published Anne of Green Gables, the story of the irrepressible redhead who brings…
The Last Station
This ambitious book sets out to give an account of Tolstoy’s final year (1910) that blurs the boundaries between…
Killing Rommel
Editors' choice
North Africa, 1942. The British Eighth Army is in trouble. The brilliant and daring tactician, Field-Marshal Rommel, and his…
The Absent Wife
In 1811, Roslyn Meredith is new to London and its Season after a quiet country upbringing in Monmouthshire. At…
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