HNR Issue 59 (February 2012)
Wings of a Dream
This impressive debut novel is an inspiring and descriptive story with a heroine who manages to captivate from the start.…
Embracing the Divine: Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East
Hindiyya al-‘Ujaimi was a Maronite visionary woman and nun who changed the face of Middle-Eastern Christianity in the 18th century.…
Guinevere, the Legend in Autumn: Book Three of the Guinevere Trilogy
Persia Woolley’s final book of the Guinevere Trilogy, The Legend in Autumn, first appeared in 1993 and is being reprinted.…
A Bespoke Murder
Edward Marston is best known for his popular railway detective series, and here he is branching out into a new…
Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History
While readers interested in the history of the American West may be more familiar with tales of the Sioux or…
Death on the Rive Nord
This is the second in Magson’s Lucas Rocco series, set in Picardie in the early 1960s. Rocco, a tough Parisian…
Thief
Caden O’Byrne is grievously wounded while fighting Saxon invaders at King Arthur’s side and is healed by a Lothian widow.…
Time of Death
Other than being set in 1952, there really isn’t anything historical about Gary Madden’s debut novel, Time of Death. In…
The Women of the Cousins’ War
This collection of essays is a gift to those who love historical fiction. It not only functions as a history…
The Lost Book of Mala R.
MacDowell’s novel tells the story of three California women in the present, each affected in different ways by the journal…
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