HNR Issue 52 (May 2010)
Black Hills
The story begins in 1876 when General George Armstrong Custer is killed at the Battle of Little Big Horn. Paha…
COVENTRY
I must confess, I am a great fan of Helen Humphreys’ novels. Coventry, an extremely vivid and moving book, just…
Descent into Dust
Scarlett O’Hara becomes Buffy the Vampire Slayer. This story is told in flashback. Emma Andrews is a beautiful, well-to-do, young…
Under Heaven
Editors' choice
Under Heaven is a “variation upon themes of the Tang,” a sweeping look at China during the 8th century, seen…
Don’t Forget to Write
This is a charming and intelligent account of one woman’s memories of being “relocated” as a child in Great Britain…
Moonshine
Zephyr Hollis is a thoroughly modern New York woman of the 1920s. She spends her days attending a variety of…
Coventry
I must confess, I am a great fan of Helen Humphreys’ novels. Coventry, an extremely vivid and moving book, just…
The Burning Land
In The Burning Land, the fifth book of Bernard Cornwell’s Saxon Tales saga, our hero Uhtred of Bebbanburg is back…
Becoming Jane Eyre
In 1846, the educated but unworldly daughter of a Yorkshire clergyman begins writing a novel. It is not her first…
The Fallen Kings
January 1918, and volume 32 of the Morland Saga. No conscientious objectors here; all the adult Morlands are doing their…
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