HNR Issue 60 (May 2012)
The House of Rumour
At first sight this is a conspiracy thriller, although more ‘literary’ than most, as one would expect from Sceptre. It…
Berlin Crossing
In Brandenburg, Germany, in 1993, Michael Ritter loses everything, and everyone, he ever cared about. His wife tosses him out;…
The Horror of Love: Nancy Mitford and Gaston Palewski in Paris and London
As for a lot of people, the name ‘Mitford’ acts upon me like a magic charm – evoking visions of…
The Piccadilly Plot
This Thomas Chaloner mystery takes place in London in the spring of 1664. Chaloner has been summoned from Tangier back…
Seahawk Burning
During the latter stages of the American Civil War, from 1863 to 1865, Captain Ralph Semmes of the C.S.S. Alabama…
The Secret Children
1925. When James MacDonald, a lonely Scots tea planter in Assam, took a beautiful Indian girl as a concubine, he…
Her Highness, The Traitor
This is not the story of the nine-day Queen, Lady Jane Grey, but of her family, her husband Guildford Dudley’s…
Colorado Dawn
In 1868, Maddie Wallace is trapped in a loveless marriage with a Scotsman who has abandoned her for the military.…
Love Blooms in Winter
In 1892, Mae Wilkey is so worried about the welfare of her elderly neighbor, Pauline, that she leaps to the…
May the Road Rise Up to Meet You
Ethan McOwen has lived through the period of Irish history known as “the Hunger” in 1847 County Fermanagh. He and…
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