HNR Issue 59 (February 2012)
The Confession
Inspector Ian Rutledge, veteran of the Great War and Scotland Yard inspector, returns in his 13th outing, faced with an…
The Swerve: How the Renaissance Began
There was something serendipitous about reading this book in a week that modern scientists took a step closer to the…
The Bungalow
The Bungalow by Sarah Jio is another wonderful tale from the South Pacific. In 1942, 21-year-old Anne, born into an…
Memoirs of a Breton Peasant
In the 1970s, a handwritten manuscript of some 4,000 pages (of which only a small portion was previously known) came…
A Dublin Student Doctor: An Irish Country Novel
Taylor has a loyal fan base, and it’s easy to see why with this lovely, easygoing story about a medical…
All the Flowers in Shanghai
One of this book’s discussion questions asks if it’s surprising it was written by a man, given its first-person female…
The Queen’s Agent
In the time of Elizabeth I, 16th-century England was in turmoil – Protestants against Catholics, wars with Spain, and a…
Rose Cottage
A couple of years after World War II has ended, Kate Herrick is living in London, alone, her husband having…
The Frozen Rabbi
Starting with the humorous title, this literary, quasi-historical novel comes with its own background “chuckle track” – you won’t be…
Deep Trails in the Old West: A Frontier Memoir
Born in 1860, John Menham Wightman came to Cimarron, New Mexico, at the age of eleven. Seventy years – and…
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