HNR Issue 63 (February 2013)
The Forgotten Queen
The Tudors were a fiery, memorable family. Headstrong, passionate, often foolhardy, restless… this describes the forgotten Tudor, Queen Margaret of…
Betrayal
Editors' choice
‘The repossession of Buenos Aires has been stained with such deliberate acts of treachery and perfidy as are not to…
Portraits of an Artist
Portraits of an Artist is a novel about portraitist John Singer Sargent. Spanning 1882-1885, it follows Sargent’s intimate circle of…
Parlor Games
Mae West once quipped that “good girls go to heaven, but bad girls go everywhere,” and this other May (Dugas)…
Be Still My Soul
When a stolen kiss leads to a shotgun wedding, 17-year-old Lonnie Sawyer trades an abusive father for an angry husband.…
The Heretics
This is the fifth novel in Clements’ John Shakespeare series. For the uninitiated, John Shakespeare is Will Shakespeare’s fictional elder…
Fairfield Folk
The history of travelling families has been handed down through the traditional method of a ‘Say.’ Every important, amusing or…
The Little Shadows
Editors' choice
Canadian writer Marina Endicott’s novel is set in Canada around the time of the First World War. It tells the…
Royalist Rebel
Elizabeth Murray, an actual historic person, was the eldest daughter of a fiercely Royalist Scottish family. Her father was a…
To Love and Cherish
Melinda Colson has marriage on the brain. Evan Tarlow does not. When a devastating hurricane hits Bridal Veil Island —…
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