HNR Issue 62 (November 2012)
The Greatcoat
With rationing and housing shortages continuing in 1952 England, Dr. Philip Carey and his new wife, Isabel, make do with…
Black Flower
A ship leaves Korea in 1905, bearing immigrants who hold multi-year contracts to harvest henequen in the Yucatan region of…
Stigmata
1205: The knight Philip of Vercy has survived a year of savage warfare in the Holy Land and sails back…
Cervantes Street
This novel takes the biography of the creator of Don Quixote as the starting point for a tale of love…
The Last Newspaperman
In 1999, a feature writer with the Shore Record in New Jersey arrives at The Oceanview, a new assisted living…
The Warrior
Loosely based on the bloody rivalry between the MacLeods of Dunvegan and the MacDonalds of Sleat, Margaret Mallory has woven…
The Gifted
Set in 1849, this novel provides another addition to Ann Gabhart’s Shaker series. This narrative continues to follow the lives…
Selkie Dreams
Máire lives in comfort with her father and their servants in Belfast in 1889. Her loving cook has always maintained…
Beggar’s Feast
“Beggar at the feast! Master of the dance!” The chorus from the musical Les Misérables will ring in your ears…
The Midnight Man
This is the seventh in a series by Doherty that uses the clever structure of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales on which…
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