HNR Issue 45 (August 2008)

The Devil Who Tamed Her

By Johanna Lindsey - Published 2007 (US)Published 2008 (UK)

Genres:

Romance

Ophelia Reid was the most beautiful and desirable debutante of her generation, and she was also the most hated woman in England. Having ...Read Review

Workhouse Lass

By Una Thorne - Published 2008

Genres:

Lottie arrived in the workhouse when she was three years old and, at thirteen, found a place with a miner’s family to ...Read Review

The Cairo Diary

By Maxim Chattam - By Susan Dyson (trans.) - Published 2007 (US)Published 2008 (UK)

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

The Cairo Diary is two mysteries for the price of one, a historical detective story embedded in a contemporary psychological thriller. When Marion ...Read Review

The Winter of Her Discontent

By Kathryn Miller Haines - Published 2008

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Actress Rosie Winter returns in Haines’s second in the series set in World War II-era New York City. With the war, times ...Read Review

The Gargoyle

By Andrew Davidson - Published 2008 (UK)Published 2008 (US)

Genres:

Literary

If the first scene of this debut novel doesn’t grab you by the throat, then no opening scene ever will. In The ...Read Review

The Warrior’s Princess

By Barbara Erskine - Published 2008

Genres:

Time-slip

At an end-of-term party, Jess, a teacher in London, is drugged and raped by someone she knows well. She suspects several men although ...Read Review

Magic Tree House: Valley of the Dinosaurs

By Mary Pope Osborne - Published 1992 (US)Published 2008 (UK)

Genres:

AdventureChildren/Young AdultTime-slip

This read alone book, aimed at 5-7 year olds, with its cheerful black and white drawings and easy-to-read typeface, is the first in ...Read Review

The Penguin Book of Ghosts

By Jacqueline Simpson - By Jennifer Westwood - Published 2008

Genres:

Nonfiction

The study of history and its less serious but much prettier sister, the creation of historical fiction, is on one level always a ...Read Review

The Fears of Henry IV

By Ian Mortimer - Published 2008

Genres:

Nonfiction

England 1399: Henry of Lancaster has lost all that he was born to, exiled for life by the increasingly tyrannical and capricious King Richard. ...Read Review

Nox Dormienda: A Long Night for Sleeping

By Kelli Stanley - Published 2008

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Londinium, 84 AD. The dregs of Saturnalia are slumped over in the clinic, begging for relief as Arcturus, 33-year-old physician to the Governor of ...Read Review