HNR Issue 40 (May 2007)
Edward VI: The Lost King of England
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The ‘tagline’ of this work is ‘the struggle for the soul of England after the death of Henry VIII’. This is important because ...Read Review
Attila: The Gathering of the Storm
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This is William Napier’s second part of his Attila trilogy. The novel is set in the 5th century, with the Western Roman ...Read Review
The Solitude of Thomas Cave
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Set in the first half of the 17th century, this is a poetic and highly literate novel that has as its themes the ...Read Review
Heyday
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For those who enjoyed Kurt Andersen’s Turn of the Century, with its picture of New York City around the year 2000, his historical ...Read Review
An Impossible Confession
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Helen Fairmead first meets Lord Drummond in slightly risqué circumstances and finds it impossible to confess her true identity to him. Soon afterwards ...Read Review
Landsman
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In 1861, an orphaned Jewish son of an indentured servant joins the Third Louisiana Infantry. Elias Abrams is on the run after participating in ...Read Review
Kept: A Victorian Mystery
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A young landowner is thrown from his horse and killed. His widow, already unbalanced from the loss of their child, is whisked out ...Read Review
The Communist’s Daughter
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Canadian writer Bock’s first novel, The Ash Garden, stunned the literary world, and his second only enhances his reputation. Here he writes ...Read Review
The Second Objective
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Mid-December 1944 was not a good time for the American forces fighting the Germans on the Franco-German borders. The seemingly defeated Germans unleashed a ...Read Review
Lipstick and Lies
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Pucci Lewis, a young Women’s Airforce Service Pilot doing home front service during World War II, needs Amelia Earhart’s saddle shoes ...Read Review
