HNR Issue 45 (August 2008)
To This Day
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In this, Agnon’s final novel, the eminent Hebrew author overlays the comical story of a young Galician writer who has been living ...Read Review
So Brave, Young and Handsome
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Monte Becket has lost his sense of purpose. It is 1915, and he has become a bestselling author with his first published book. Living ...Read Review
Bones in the Belfry
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Irony and wit abound in Molehill, Surrey, where Francis Oughterard serves as vicar to a parish full of oddball characters and as owner-by-default ...Read Review
The Steel Wave
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This second novel in Shaara’s World War II trilogy starts in January 1944 (after a fast-paced introduction covering the war to that date), ...Read Review
Seekers of the Chalice
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In ancient Ireland, in a time when gods and men walked the earth along with demons, the Chalice of Fire, the symbol of ...Read Review
Rogues’ Gold
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AdventureChildren/Young AdultMystery/Crime
1590s. Twelve-year-old Ben Button, an apprentice actor, is with the acting company Lord Bonner’s Men on their summer tour. Their first stop ...Read Review
Lancaster Against York: The Wars of the Roses and the Foundation of Modern Britain
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Lancaster Against York has a somewhat misleading subtitle: this is a study of the Wars of the Roses, certainly, but not an assessment ...Read Review
Royal Affairs
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In the foreword to Royal Affairs, Leslie Carroll (who writes biographical historical fiction under the pen name Amanda Elyot) describes our ongoing fascination ...Read Review
Seven for a Secret
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In 6th-century Byzantium, John Lord Chamberlain to Emperor Justinian discovers that name-dropping can be fatal. John confides his evening thoughts to a young ...Read Review
The Other Queen
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The “other queen” in Gregory’s new Tudor novel is Mary of Scotland, the bane of Elizabeth’s existence and the thorn in ...Read Review
