HNR Issue 45 (August 2008)
Faust in Copenhagen
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1932 is known by physicists as the “miracle year”, when scientists were undertaking groundbreaking work in quantum theory. The Copenhagen Institute hosted a conference ...Read Review
Other People’s Daughters: The Life and Times of the Governess
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The governess has played a more important role in literature than she was ever afforded in real life. Most did not have the ...Read Review
Murder’s Immortal Mask
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Rome, 314 AD. Constantine is now the emperor, having defeated Maxentius at the battle of Milvian Bridge in the year 312 and brought to an ...Read Review
The Queen’s Sorrow
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This novel tells the story of Rafael Prado, who is brought to England by Prince Philip of Spain to create a sundial for ...Read Review
To Taste Temptation
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The unknown situation surrounding her brother’s death during the Battle of Spinner’s Falls in the American colonies haunts Lady Emeline Gordon, ...Read Review
Forbidden Frontier
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Charlotte Badger is a heroine of a type I’ve not encountered before. A strapping, self-reliant, and clever woman, Charlotte’s not above ...Read Review
Forevermore
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Hope Ladley makes her living in 1890s Texas driving from farm to ranch, looking for families who need temporary domestic help, moving on ...Read Review
Rapscallion
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The further adventures of Matthew Hawkwood, soldier, spy, Bow Street Runner. At the height of the wars with Napoleon thousands of French prisoners ...Read Review
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
