HNR Issue 45 (August 2008)
Alexander and Alestria
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Alexander the Great was crowned King of Macedonia in 336 BC and soon after began asserting his authority through his formidable army, squashing resistance ...Read Review
Cathedral of the Sea
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Set in 14th-century Catalonia, this novel has become a huge bestseller in Spain with translations sold in 32 countries to date. The story of ...Read Review
Buccaneer
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Tim Severin is the author of those splendid non-fiction accounts of classical voyages which have entertained us over the years. His first steps ...Read Review
The Book of Air and Shadows
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Gruber takes readers on a wild ride in this satisfying tale of double-crossings, murders, and intrigue. The lives of two very different men ...Read Review
The Wild Card
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London 1810. Kitty Towers has been sent to London to stay with an elderly aunt with the aim of mixing with the capital’s ...Read Review
Lady of Milkweed Manor
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In Regency England, Charlotte Lamb, a proper vicar’s daughter, has committed the ultimate social disgrace by becoming pregnant out of wedlock. Turned ...Read Review
Wizard’s Country
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Zululand, in the 1870s, is about to change forever. This tale is told by Benge, a Tshanini tribesman whose clan farms, raises cattle, ...Read Review
Windstorm
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It is wartime Cairo in 1916. Lea Attwood, an intrepid war correspondent, is in Egypt seeking news of her husband, Michael Attwood, who is ...Read Review
Past Caring
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Martin Radford is a floundering, unemployed historian with a dim future who jumps at the chance to research the memoirs of Edwin Strafford, ...Read Review
The Lady of the Manor
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Chris Marr is described as a voracious reader of the Edwardian period with a passion for crime fiction, and his first book is, ...Read Review
