HNR Issue 56 (May 2011)
Off the Record
Editors' choice
Recording tape and gramophones probably don’t sound like promising grounds for a novel, but in Off the Record the technology…
The Land of Painted Caves
Having read the previous five books of this series, I looked forward to this sixth volume, expected to be the…
The Vigilante’s Bride
Emily McCarthy goes to Montana with great misgivings about marrying a wealthy stranger, who advertised for a wife. On Christmas…
Pop Goes the Weasel
Albert Jack only reluctantly took to studying the history of nursery rhymes, but then found it to be his most…
Serendipity
It’s 1893 in Carver’s Hollow, Arkansas and healer Maggie Rose is doted on by a gaggle of older men for…
Mr. Chartwell
Editors' choice
Esther Hammerhans, a young librarian with the House of Commons, is disturbed when she finds a prospective new lodger at…
From Splendor to Revolution: The Romanov Women 1847-1928
Independent historian Gelardi follows the privileged, tumultuous lives of Tsarina Marie Feodorovna (1847-1928) and three of her sisters-in-law in this…
Rodin’s Debutante
The first short section presents Tommy Odgen, an early 20th century Illinoisan whose inherited railroad money allows him to indulge…
Any Survivors?
The narrator is a refugee in London in 1939. Turfed out of his lodgings and finding himself homeless with five…
Wartime Notebooks
This is a difficult book to categorise as Duras’s notebooks, like those of most writers, are an amalgam of different…
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