HNR Issue 45 (August 2008)
The Triumph of Caesar
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The Roman Civil War has ended with Julius Caesar returning to Rome a hero, around 46 BC. Caesar’s wife, Calpurnia, asks Gordianus the ...Read Review
The Devil’s Disciples
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It is ten years since the Black Death reaped its harvest at Cambridge. Now, in the stifling summer of 1357, an even more sinister ...Read Review
Touching Distance
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Based on a true story, this is an account of how Dr Alec Gordon struggles to understand how a mysterious disease, puerperal fever, ...Read Review
The Aviary Gate
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Oxford researcher Elizabeth Staveley is intrigued to discover an ancient fragment stuck in a book. The fragment tells of a young Englishwoman in ...Read Review
The Lethal Legend
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Fourth and quite sadly last in the Diana Spaulding series, this adventure finds Diana and her fiancé, Dr. Ben Northcote, preparing for their ...Read Review
A Line in the Sand
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These first two volumes in the Kane Legacy series follow youngest son Alan Kane as he emigrates from 1834 Boston to Texas, with the ...Read Review
My Heart Remembers
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An orphan train carries three Irish children from their tenement life in New York City to Missouri in 1886. Before they are parted toward ...Read Review
Relief
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Katie is a young widow in Boston, 1912, struggling with lingering trauma from her husband’s death. She is also a painter who always ...Read Review
Death Before Wicket
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In 1928, on holiday in Sydney, Phryne Fisher has her vacation all planned out: cricket matches, dinner with the in-crowd, and lots of dancing. ...Read Review
Sand Against the Wind
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This novel is the story of the Morgan family in Wales during the Second World War. Colliery owner Harry Morgan has plenty to ...Read Review
