HNR Issue 62 (November 2012)
Eleven Eleven
November 11th, 1918, the last day of World War I. It is still night, and three young soldiers are on…
The Newgate Jig
Set in the same era and very much in the same style as her earlier novel, Walking in Pimlico, which…
The Orphan King
Orphaned at 10 and raised by monks, Thomas is 18 when he realizes the time has come for him to…
Clash of Empires: The Red Sea
This is a sequel to Clash of Empires: The Great Siege, which I have not read and the HNR did…
The Neruda Case
Cayetano Brule is unemployed with a marriage in crisis but still determined to live his own life, no longer being…
Isabel’s Skin
Book valuer David Morris is summoned to Belmont Hall to value the collection of the late Lord Buff-Orpington, a specialist…
Escape from Texas
In 1829 Samuel Bingham brings his slave James Robinson to the Mexican state of Coahuila y Tejas, where he intends…
Marie Curie and Her Daughters: The Private Lives of Science’s First Family
Marie Curie is famous for her discovery of the scientific element, radium, which changed the world and for which she,…
Between Love and Honor
The book’s prologue is written much like the opening scene of a movie. A bleak flat landscape, divided by a…
Sugar Fork
North Carolina’s Smoky Mountains are a tough place to make a living in the 1920s, and life becomes even harder…
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