HNR Issue 41 (August 2007)
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
Blood of Father Time: Book One, The New Cut
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Time travel stories are a mix of fantasy and historical settings, and this collaborative effort by three authors manages to mix in elements ...Read Review
The Charioteer of Delphi
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Children/Young AdultMystery/Crime
A.D. 80. In this twelfth Roman Mystery, Flavia, Jonathan, Nubia and Lupus are in Rome for the races in honour of Jupiter at ...Read Review
The Dragon and the Foreign Devils, China and the World, 1100 BC to the Present
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No one would doubt the timeliness of this history at a moment when China is once again a dominant international player whose explosive ...Read Review
Decency and Disorder: The Age of Cant 1789-1837
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The generation that grew up during the Napoleonic Wars was notorious for its boisterous character, plain-speaking, hard drinking, cherishing of freedom, the right ...Read Review
The Fall of Rome
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Attila is dead. The Western Roman Empire is tottering. As every source of order crumbles, life, already brutish and short, is becoming more ...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