HNR Issue 37 (August 2006)
An Iliad
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The Iliad is one of the oldest works of western literature. Composed during the 8th century BC, it still maintains a powerful hold ...Read Review
Beyond the Abbey Gates
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In this 14th century historical romance, a traveling troubadour named Jack breaks his leg near Greyleigh Abbey. The nuns take him in and ...Read Review
The King’s Lizard: A Tale of Murder and Deception in Old Santa Fe in 1782
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Nando Anguilar is the young son of a Spanish don and a Ute slave. Captured and taken as a slave himself, he ...Read Review
The Law of Dreams
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Life burns hot in The Law of Dreams, an exceptional novel about a young man’s struggle for survival during the Irish potato ...Read Review
The Observations
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In Scotland in 1863, 15-year-old runaway Bessy Buckley finds work as a maid for the beautiful Arabella Reid and her penny-pinching husband at their ...Read Review
Louisa and the Crystal Gazer
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It has become quite fashionable and profitable in the American writing world for an author to take a well-known person and turn him ...Read Review
Young Bloods
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This is the first in a quartet of novels about Wellington and Napoleon, covering the years 1769-1795. Arthur Wesley is a sickly ...Read Review
The Amalgamation Polka
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Liberty Fish is born in 1844 to an uncommon set of parents. His father is a Northern abolitionist; his mother was born and ...Read Review
The Tailor’s Wife
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In 1930s Salford, Suzannah Clark is forced to raise her two siblings after her mother, the tailor’s wife of the title, ...Read Review
Icebergs
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Johns’ prizewinning first novel is a literary story of how one coincidence can have repercussions in the lives of whole families and ...Read Review
