HNR Issue 39 (February 2007)

Haweswater

By Sarah Hall - Published 2003Published 2006

Genres:

Literary

In 1936, the Cumbrian village of Mardale is selected as the site for the Haweswater reservoir. The people of Manchester are running short on ...Read Review

Crimson Portrait

By Jody Shields - Published 2006 (US)Published 2007 (UK)

Genres:

LiteraryRomance

In 1915, Catherine, an Englishwoman grieving for her husband who has died on a WWI battlefield, turns over their country mansion to the army ...Read Review

Ysabel

By Guy Gavriel Kay - Published 2007

Genres:

Historical FantasyLiterary

Guy Gavriel Kay has mesmerized readers with his realistic, historically-steeped novels set in alternate versions of actual eras and places. He has won ...Read Review

Peter Pan in Scarlet

By Geraldine McCaughrean - Published 2006

Genres:

Children/Young AdultHistorical Fantasy

Whether or not you’ve read the original Peter Pan, you are no doubt familiar with at least the high points of the ...Read Review

The Girl from Hockley: Growing Up in Working-Class Birmingham

By Joanna Goldsworthy (ed.) - By Kathleen Dayus - Published 2006

Genres:

Nonfiction

Kathleen Dayus was born in 1903, and this new edition combines several of her works into a volume telling the story of her life ...Read Review

The Concord Quartet

By Samuel A. Schreiner - Published 2006

Genres:

Nonfiction

In the 1830s Concord, Massachusetts, was only a small farming town, but it managed to attract the most extraordinary minds of the age, ...Read Review

The Assassins of Isis

By P. C. Doherty - Published 2006

Genres:

Biographical FictionMystery/Crime

This is the fifth Egyptian murder mystery starring Lord Amerotke, the Pharaoh’s chief judge. It is a quick- paced adventure with plenty ...Read Review

The Waxman Murders

By Paul Doherty - Published 2006

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

In 1272 Henry III died with the new king, Edward I, in the Holy Land. Back in England there was a breakdown of law ...Read Review

The Three Musketeers

By Alexandre Dumas - By Richard Pevear (trans.) - Published 2006

Genres:

Adventure

Originally published in 1844, the many incarnations of The Three Musketeers have embedded into our collective unconscious the image of three men in plumed ...Read Review

The Longing Season

By Christine Schaub - Published 2006

Genres:

Biographical FictionInspirational

This is the most compelling novel about slavery that I have ever read, not because of horrific details, but because it reveals how ...Read Review