HNR Issue 41 (August 2007)

Farewell Britannia

By Simon Young - Published 2007

Genres:

MilitarySagaShort Stories

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

By Edward Charles - Published 2007

Genres:

Mystery/CrimeRomance

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

By Carol Brown Janeway (trans.) - By Daniel Kehlmann - Published 2007

Genres:

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

By Dilly Court - Published 2007

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

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

By Helen Rappaport - By William Horwood - Published 2007

Genres:

Thriller

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

By Michael Parker - Published 2007

Genres:

MilitaryRomance

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

By Frances Burke - Published 2007

Genres:

MilitaryRomance

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

By Ben Faccini - Published 2007

Genres:

Romance

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

By Liu Hong - Published 2007

Genres:

Inspirational

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

By Robert Ryan - Published 2007

Genres:

MilitaryThriller

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

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