HNR Issue 44 (May 2008)
Commonwealth of Thieves : The Improbable Birth of Australia
Novelist and historian Keneally (Schindler’s List) takes on the inauspicious early years of white settlers in his homeland in…
Private Arrangements
In 1893 London, a perfect marriage among the aristocratic elite was hard to find, with one notable exception: that…
Sun Going Down
This Western saga begins in 1863 when Eb Paint, sick of war, sells his Mississippi River supply boat and…
Georgette Heyer’s Regency World
I would not call myself a Heyer fan as such, but a book on Regency life made an enjoyable prospect…
Annette Vallon
Although I’m not a fan of novels written by men from a woman’s point of view, Annette Vallon disposed of…
I Want to Live
This is the diary of a girl in her teens, writing during the mid-1930s under Stalin’s Soviet Union. Nina’s…
The Blackstone Key
Editors' choice
Mary Finch receives an invitation from a rich, estranged uncle to meet him at White Ladies, his estate on the…
The Great Wall
Man doesn’t mince words. This is another author anxious to show that well- established ideas are more historical myth…
Soldier of Fortune
Edward Marston is famous as a writer of whodunits, which are published under at least three names. For the first…
Angel of Vengeance : The ‘Girl Assassin’, the Governor of St Petersburg, and Russia’s Revolutionary World
This volume focuses on the life of a woman revolutionary in Tsarist Russia, Vera Zasulich, who in 1878 shot…
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