HNR Issue 56 (May 2011)

This issue contains:

• Cover Story, 30 Years Gone: Jean Auel’s last Earth’s Children novel  |  by Ken Kreckel
• New Voices, a column focusing on debut novelists Christina Courtenay, Joan Fallon, Lynn Sheene, and Stewart Binns  |  by Myfanwy Cook
• History & Film, Real Person Fiction: an examination of the historical film Impromptu  |  by Hannah Sternberg
• Interviews with novelists Hilary Green (by Myfanwy Cook), William C. Hammond, and John Sayles (by Ken Kreckel)
• Features on the Louis XIV (by Karleen Koen), historical fiction for young adults (by Julie Parker), and passenger ships as historical setting (Myfanwy Cook)
• Reviews of almost 300 of the latest and greatest books in historical fiction and nonfiction, including Editors’ Choice titles