HNR Issue 63 (February 2013)
The Stockholm Octavo
The Stockholm Octavo is set in 18th-century Stockholm against the background of the last years of Sweden’s Golden Age and…
How a Lady Weds a Rogue: A Falcon Club Novel
In 1820, 19-year-old Diantha Lucas is travelling in a mail coach bound for Bristol to catch a boat for Calais.…
Charles Dickens in Love
Garnett’s aim is to put the women Charles Dickens loved—Maria Beadnell, two Hogarth sisters (neither of them his wife), and…
Cursive
In 1933, young Ralph Talbot leaves England for East Africa as a way to prove himself to his prospective father-in-law…
Over the Edge
The horrors of the Civil War and a Confederate prison camp reawaken Seth Kincaid’s emotional scars from a childhood fire.…
Saturn
This novel is a fictionalised version of the personal life of the great Spanish painter Francisco Goya. It is told…
Checkmate, My Lord
In 1804, after the death of her husband, Catherine Ashcroft tries to lead a quiet English life in the country…
The Wicked Wedding of Miss Ellie Vyne
This Regency romance opens in masquerade: James Hartley, dressed as a notorious highwayman, doesn’t realize the “Marie Antoinette” he kisses…
Fires of London
Francis Bacon is a flamer, for sure, in more ways than one. Because of severe asthma, he can’t serve on…
My Own Revolution
Communism in Eastern Europe ended only a few decades ago. I grew up hearing about the social injustices behind the…
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