HNR Issue 49 (August 2009)
Loving a Lost Lord
What happens to aristocratic boys who rebel against the strict mores of the English nobility? In this charming debut to…
The Perfect Poison
Lucinda Bromley is a botanist living in Victorian London. She has an apparently paranormal knack for detecting poisons which makes…
Blood & Ice
Photo-journalist Michael Wilde, tormented by guilt and grief, takes on an assignment in the Antarctic, a chance to abandon the…
The Chapel at the Edge of the World
In 1942, Italian prisoners of war were taken to the Orkneys and employed to build the defences around Scapa Flow…
American Adulterer
This novel is unputdownable. Much of what makes it compulsive reading, however, is its voyeuristic quality. Although written in prose…
Under this Unbroken Sky
Editors' choice
Lured by promises of prosperity and fertile land for farming, Theo Mykolayenko and his family immigrated to Canada to escape…
Murder in the Dark
Phryne Fisher receives an invitation from the eccentric twins Gerald and Isabella Templar to the Last Best Party of 1928,…
Murder on a Midsummer Night
Greenwood’s latest entry in the Phryne Fisher series, her 16th, has the unflappable Melbourne detective facing a multitude of problems:…
Winter in June
Third in Haines’s Rosie Winter mystery series, this outing finds the World War II-era actress on a steamer to the…
The Finest Type of English Womanhood
Two girls who have never met escape from the drab restrictions of post World War 2 Britain, their destination South…
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