HNR Issue 14 (November 2000)
A Famine Of Horses
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In 1592, Sir Robert Carey, weary of court life, left London to take up his new post as Deputy Warden of the West March ...Read Review
More Than a Mistress
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Mary Balogh has a reputation as being one of the very best Regency-era writers. Until now, I’d read only one of her ...Read Review
Iceweaver
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A sequel of sorts to the historical mystery series starring midwife Hannah Trevor, this work of “straight” fiction brings her deaf daughter Jennet, ...Read Review
Blind Assassin 1ST Edition Us
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Any review of Margaret Atwood’s The Blind Assassin as a historical novel must confront Atwood’s received status as a major ‘mainstream’ ...Read Review
Bottoms
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This novel of Depression-era East Texas is reminiscent of Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. Rich in description and period detail, it ...Read Review
Louisa
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At the end of WWII, Nora Graz, a refugee in the newly formed State of Israel, reflects on her life in Budapest before ...Read Review
A Season Of Knives
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Sir Robert Carey, a courtier to Queen Elizabeth I who has been historically documented, is brought to vivid fictional life in P. F. ...Read Review
Jane and the Stillroom Maid: Being the Fifth Jane Austen Mystery
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A stillroom, in early nineteenth century England, was the place where medicines were distilled, stored and dispensed. The maidservant whose often-atrocious remedies begin ...Read Review
The Heir
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Johanna Lindsey takes her 36th novel to the ballrooms and estates of Regency England. While she has visited the era before, this is ...Read Review
Kitty and Virgil
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Kitty & Virgil is a novel of great love, deep tragedy, conflicting emotions, and witty humor. Kitty, a mild tempered, open-minded book editor, ...Read Review
