HNR Issue 45 (August 2008)
Children of Freedom
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This novel, based on true stories of the French Resistance, is an excellent read and will appeal to those like myself who have ...Read Review
The Woman Who Wouldn’t
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Jeremy Spencer Webb, a concert violinist who takes leave of his senses during a performance, finds himself at a spa somewhere in Bavaria ...Read Review
Don’t Talk to Me About the War
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It is 1940. Thirteen-year-old Tommy would like to enjoy just being a kid. He is more interested in listening to Brooklyn Dodgers games on ...Read Review
On Rough Seas
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It’s 1940, and Alex Curtis is fourteen. He works at his parents’ hotel in Dover, England, but his heart already belongs to the ...Read Review
La Petite Four
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Lady Emily Southwell, Miss Priscilla Tate and the Misses Ariadne and Daphne Cordebas have been inseparable friends at the Barnsley School for Young ...Read Review
Fatal Avenue: A Traveller’s Guide to the Battlefields of Northern France and Flanders 1346-1945
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This is the latest paperback edition of a book originally published in 1992, and which neatly combines both guidebook and military history. Professor Holmes ...Read Review
The Sun’s Bride
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The Eastern Mediterranean, 246 BC. The Rhodian warship Atalanta and her naked crew (that got your attention) come across and destroy a pirate ship. ...Read Review
The Paths of the Air
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Sir Josse d’Acquin is sitting by his fireside wondering where his life is going when a mysterious stranger comes to the door ...Read Review
The Heretic’s Daughter
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With The Heretic’s Daughter, debut author Kathleen Kent has taken the tragic story of Martha Carrier, a victim of the witch trials ...Read Review
The Fields of Fortune
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On the brink of being coerced into an unwanted marriage to an old, albeit rich, neighbour, young Nicola Templeton flees to Georgian Edinburgh ...Read Review
