HNR Issue 41 (August 2007)

1945

By Robert Conroy - Published 2007

Genres:

Alternate HistoryMilitary

Robert Conroy turns history on its head by asking what would have happened if Japan had not surrendered after the atomic bombings of ...Read Review

Troublesome Angels and the Red Island Pirates

By Hazel Marshall - Published 2006

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Bianca and Eva are making their way to Venice when they are marooned by pirates on an island en route. They find shelter ...Read Review

Literary London

By Ed Glinert - Published 2007

Genres:

Nonfiction

From central London this guide directs the reader, street by street, on a literary voyage of discovery. Characters both real and fictional are ...Read Review

Speaking in the Past Tense: Canadian Novelists on Writing Historical Fiction

By Herb Wyile - Published 2006

Genres:

Nonfiction

Wyile conducted interviews with eleven writers of Canadian historical fiction to create a wide-ranging conversation about the challenges and significance of historical writing. ...Read Review

Belisarius, Book 1: The First Shall Be Last

By Paolo A. Belzoni - Published 2007

Genres:

Biographical FictionEpicMilitary

Belisarius was the great general whose leadership of the Byzantine armies of the Emperor Justinian during the 6th century led to the reconquest ...Read Review

My Lady Judge

By Cora Harrison - Published 2007

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

On the eve ofthe first of May, 1509, people from all over the Burren, on the western seaboard ofIreland, climb themountainofMullaghmoreto celebrate the festival ...Read Review

Cruel Choices

By Charles O’Brien - Published 2007

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Paris in spring 1788 sees intrepid Anne Cartier and her husband Paul back home after their sojourn in Nice. The crops are failing, and ...Read Review

Ever My Love

By Gretchen Craig - Published 2007

Genres:

RomanceSaga

It is 1860 in southern Louisiana, and Abraham Lincoln’s election is on the horizon. After a year at finishing school in New York, ...Read Review

Beware a Scot’s Revenge

By Sabrina Jeffries - Published 2007

Genres:

AdventureRomance

In 1822, Sir Lachlan Ross is widely feared in his guise as The Scottish Scourge, but Lady Venetia Campbell remembers her former neighbor as ...Read Review

A Particular Circumstance

By Shirley Smith - Published 2007

Genres:

Mystery/CrimeRomance

Widowed Jane Grayson has decided to move from Westbury Hall, which she has rented from wealthy Sir Benjamin Westbury. Jane has decided to ...Read Review