HNR Issue 45 (August 2008)
Revelation
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Palm Sunday, 1543: Henry VIII, having only recently beheaded his fifth wife, is wooing a very reluctant Catherine Parr. Sergeant Matthew Shardlake, now a ...Read Review
The Iron Tongue of Midnight
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This fourth volume in the series featuring castrato opera singer Tito Amato is the author’s tribute to the country house mystery. In ...Read Review
Killstraight
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Renamed Daniel Killstraight at the Carlisle Industrial School in the late 1800s, a young Comanche man returns to his tribe, who live on ...Read Review
The Seance
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This is an excellent Gothic tale set in the second half of 19th-century England. Narrated by a number of different characters, in language ...Read Review
Awaken My Heart
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The colony of Texas of 1803 is the setting for the star-crossed love story between a gently-bred Virginia planter’s daughter and the mestizo ...Read Review
Pelican Road
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Howard Bahr has made a name for himself in American literary circles with his three novels about the American Civil War. In Pelican ...Read Review
The Broken Word
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This short but startlingly effective verse narrative is set in the 1950s in the British expatriate community in Kenya at the time of ...Read Review
Mudbound
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In 1946, Henry McAllen moves his city-bred wife Laura, their two girls and his crotchety father Pappy to the farm he purchased on the ...Read Review
Bone China
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This novel, which starts during the Second World War, is one of love, violence and change for the ex-tea-planting de Silvia family. It ...Read Review
The Sarsen Witch
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After having witnessed her entire family slaughtered by the invading horse-lords, young Naeri survives on her own for several years before being captured ...Read Review
