HNR Issue 45 (August 2008)
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
Raven Queen
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Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult
Lady Jane Grey lived a tragic life of manipulation and cruelty, and is marked down in history as the young woman who was ...Read Review
Willows for Weeping
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Children/Young AdultMystery/Crime
There is always a problem being an adult reviewer of a children’s novel; one is pickier than the young readers the novel ...Read Review
Faberge’s Eggs
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Between 1885 and 1916, Carl Faberge made fifty jewelled eggs. These were given as Easter presents from Russia’s last two tsars to their wives. ...Read Review
Magic in His Kiss
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This is the final in a romance trilogy featuring the de Leon sisters, 12th-century descendants of King Arthur, and all possessing supernatural gifts. ...Read Review
A Death in Gascony
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Sarah D’Almeida’s fourth installment in her mystery series with Alexander Dumas’ famous 17th century Musketeers as sleuths gets off with a ...Read Review
