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HNR Issue 39 (February 2007)

Queen of Swords

By Sara Donati - Published 2006 (US)Published 2007 (UK)

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Sara Donati revives the sweeping, no-holds-barred historical sagas of the 1970s and 1980s in Queen of Swords, the fifth book in her Bonner ...Read Review

The Railway Detective

By Edward Marston - Published 2006

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

The first novel in the Detective Inspector Colbeck Mysteries has a handsome new cover in honour of its reprint. 1851: the Great Exhibition is ...Read Review

Eunice

By William James Rivers - Published 2006

Genres:

Literary

Novelist and poet William James Rivers (1822-1909) was also one of South Carolina’s first professional historians. Published for the first time, his ...Read Review

Openwork

By Adria Bernardi - Published 2007

Genres:

Saga

Using the image of close needlework – where patterns are formed by holes in the cloth – Bernardi tells a cross-generational story of Italian families ...Read Review

Loving Enemies

By Jeannie Johnson - Published 2006

Genres:

Saga

This is a gritty saga set in Bristol at the start of WW2. It immediately draws the reader in as sons leave to ...Read Review

Black Water Born

By Fara Spence - Published 2006

Genres:

Adventure Inspirational Romance

Black Water Born integrates the elements of many different genres: At the beginning, it’s strongly inspirational; at the end, it’s pure ...Read Review

Roman Dusk

By Chelsea Quinn Yarbro - Published 2006

Genres:

Historical Fantasy

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro continues her popular vampire series into the decadent reign of the boy-Emperor Heliogabalus as Rome totters on the edge of ...Read Review

The Moneylender’s Daughter

By V.A. Richardson - Published 2006

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

(1) 1637. In this second book in the Windjammer series, the Draco, carrying sixteen-year-old Adam Windjammer, is sailing up the American coast towards Cape Fear. ...Read Review

Pathfinders

By Felipe Ferńandez-Armesto - Published 2006

Genres:

Nonfiction

Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, the author of several books on global history, now has written a comprehensive study of human exploration in Pathfinders. After a ...Read Review