HNR Issue 36 (May 2006)
Gates of Paradise
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In 1800 the poet, William Blake, and his wife, Catherine, move from London to the tiny rural community of Felpham, in Sussex. There they ...Read Review
Rifling Paradise
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Charles Redbourne, middle-aged dilettante, leaves his English country estate in disgrace after his callous treatment of a discarded male love interest drives the ...Read Review
The Diamond Frontier
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The year is 1880. Simon Fonthill and his sidekick, “352” Jenkins, are preparing to leave India and return to England when they receive a plea ...Read Review
Taking Care of Cleo
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Eighteen-year-old Rebecca Bearwald comes from the only Jewish family in a northern Michigan resort town during the Prohibition era. Her father owns a ...Read Review
West Bound: Stories of Providence
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Robert Gish writes a compelling and delightful collection of short stories that will make you frown, smile, and laugh out loud. These stories ...Read Review
Cloth Girl
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In the mid-1930s, naïve bride Audrey Turton travels to Ghana to join her colonial officer husband. At the same time, fourteen-year-old ...Read Review
Winter In Madrid
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Having no previous knowledge of Sansom’s prior success, both critically and commercially, with crime novels set in Tudor times, it was with ...Read Review
The World To Come
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The World to Come is, quite simply, one of the best novels I have read in a long time. At the heart of ...Read Review
Ursula’s Maiden Army
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This novel for young adults is based upon the legend of St. Ursula and the 11,000 virgin martyrs of Cologne, and, despite attempts to ...Read Review
A Night at the Majestic: Proust and the Great Modernist Dinner Party of 1922
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18 May 1922, five of the greatest artists of the twentieth century met for supper at the Hotel Majestic in Paris. It was the first ...Read Review
