HNR Issue 61 (August 2012)
The Midwife of Hope River
Patience Murphy is a “thirty-six year old widow, wanted by the law in two states,” so when she takes up…
Moonlit Desire
New York Colony, June 1759: The height of the French and Indian War. Recently wed Catherine Bradshaw and husband Jeremy…
Illuminations
I admit to knowing next to nothing about Hildegard von Bingen before I picked up Mary Sharratt’s novel, Illuminations; by…
Fate
Editors' choice
In 1717, on his 17th birthday, Lord Francis Damory discovers a book linking him to his great-great grandfather, Tobias, an…
Outcasts of River Falls
When her father dies, Kathryn Tourond must leave Our Lady of Mercy Academy in Toronto to go live in Alberta…
Edge of Dark Water
May Lynn dreamed about being a movie star, and when she gets murdered, her three teenaged friends decide to take…
Crusoe: Daniel Defoe, Robert Knox, and the Creation of a Myth
The long title of Katherine Frank’s book harkens back to a 17th-century fashion. The book’s subject is rooted in that…
The Candle Man
Few events in recent history hold such a fascination or resonance as the Whitechapel murders in 1888 and the sinking…
The Trip to Jerusalem
In Elizabethan London, theatre is booming. But then come rumours of plague, and Lord Westfield’s Men theatre company must seek…
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