HNR Issue 47 (February 2009)
The Queen’s Lady
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The Queen’s Lady—a reprint of Barbara Kyle’s 1994 novel, A Dangerous Temptation—strides boldly into Philippa Gregory territory, as it chronicles ...Read Review
The High City
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This novel continues Holland’s Viking series. Raef Corbansson is grieving the loss of his cousin Conn, who lies dead back in Kiev. ...Read Review
Crown in Candlelight
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Originally published in 1978, Crown in Candlelight covers a tumultuous period of English and French history between 1405 and 1461. This is the story of Katherine ...Read Review
The Courtier’s Secret
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In 1682, the Court of Versailles is in its heyday. The reign of the Sun King, Louis XIV, is at its zenith. Secrecy, intrigue ...Read Review
The Scandalous Life Of The Lawless Sisters: Criminally Illustrated With What Was To Hand
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Using cartoon illustrations from Punch, January-December 1880, Philip Ardagh has concocted a rollicking tale involving a group of Victorian ladies he calls, the Lawless ...Read Review
River’s Reach
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In 1887 Rose Adams, a schoolmistress in a village school, longs for a better life. She has exciting ideas for reform but the new ...Read Review
Wobble to Death
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It is a cold November morning in 1879 and a dozen ‘pedestrians’ in silk drawers and white tights gather at the Agricultural Hall in ...Read Review
Unbridled Dreams
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In 1886, thanks to a successful banking business, the Friedrichs are social leaders in South Platte, Nebraska. Eighteen-year-old Irma is determined to ride in ...Read Review
In Zodiac Light
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This novel is bound to invite comparison with Pat Barker’s Regeneration: set in an asylum for shell-shocked soldiers, its ostensible raison d’...Read Review
The Given Day
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Set against the waning years of World War I, the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic and the increasingly turbulent social changes sweeping through Boston, The ...Read Review