HNR Issue 54 (November 2010)
The Masuda Affair
Sugawara Akitada, a Senior Secretary in the Ministry of Justice in 11th-century Japan, is very depressed as he had lost…
Sloane Hall
Sternberg’s dubious decision to set the plot of Jane Eyre in the US in the 1920s, with a gender switch,…
The Forever Queen
Editors' choice
The Forever Queen follows the career of Norman lady Emma from the time she is married at thirteen to Anglo-Saxon…
Music of the Distant Stars
Alys Clare’s Aelf Fen novels are set in East Anglia during the reign of William II (1087-1100). It’s a land…
The Cailiffs of Baghdad, Georgia
The inhabitants of Threestep, Georgia didn’t just gain a schoolteacher when Miss Grace Spivey arrives in town in August 1938.…
Landwaster
This is the story of Harald Hardraada, half-brother to the King of Norway, who leads his Viking mercenaries on a…
A Christmas Odyssey
Anne Perry’s Christmas novellas have quickly become a tradition for her legion of fans. A Christmas Odyssey is her eighth…
The Passages of H.M.
Editors' choice
Even readers unacquainted with much of Early American literature recognize the name of literary giant Herman Melville and connect him…
The Dove of Death
It’s AD 670, and a pirate ship comes upon an Irish merchant vessel carrying Fidelma of Cashel and her husband…
Devoured
This debut novel by Denise Meredith is an entertaining read. It reminded me of Masterpiece Mystery with the many characters…
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