HNR Issue 41 (August 2007)
Farewell Britannia
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In this collection of linked short stories, Simon Young revisits the territory he occupied so beguilingly in A.D. 500, not only literally revisiting ...Read Review
Daughters of the Doge: A novel of Renaissance Venice
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This is the second in the Richard Stocker series, quickly following on from the first novel published in 2006, In the Shadow of Lady ...Read Review
Measuring the World
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AdventureBiographical FictionLiterary
On a prosaic level—and this novel is anything but prosaic—this is the story of two contrasting figures of the German Enlightenment. ...Read Review
The Cockney Sparrow
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1889. Struggling to make a living in the slums of Cheapside, London, Clemency Skinner supports her crippled brother Jack and alcoholic mother Edith by ...Read Review
Dark Hearts of Chicago
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Dark indeed. This 1893 version of Chicago is a thoroughly unpleasant place, violent, racist, sexist and corrupt, both politically and morally. Helen Rappaport and ...Read Review
Hell’s Gate
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Hell’s Gate is set in British East Africa in 1898. The plot is quite straightforward, and would not be out of place in ...Read Review
Dragon Wind Rising
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It is Peking in 1900. Lea Stafford, a fledgling correspondent for the Sydney Morning Herald, is in China at the time of the Boxer ...Read Review
The Incomplete Husband
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This is a study of loss and exile. Elena marries against the wishes of her family, and she and Ricardo dream of a ...Read Review
Wives of the East Wind
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Wives of the East Wind covers four decades of China’s recent history, beginning in the 1960s. It features newly trained doctor Wenya ...Read Review
Dying Day
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In 1944 SOE agent Diana McGill is flown into occupied France. Shortly afterwards she disappears—apparently into the “Night and Fog” of the Nazi ...Read Review