HNR Issue 47 (February 2009)

The Lost Quilter

By Jennifer Chiaverini - Published 2009

Genres:

Epic

More than one story must be repeatedly told so that we remember! In a northern American town, Sylvia Bergstrom discovers a packet of ...Read Review

The Lady Grace Mysteries: Intrigue

By Grace Cavendish - Published 2008

Genres:

AdventureChildren/Young Adult

London, 1570. Lady Grace Cavendish, one of Queen Elizabeth I’s maids of honour, embarks on her 9th adventure. The queen and her court ...Read Review

The Letter Writer

By Ann Rinaldi - Published 2008

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Popular YA historical novelist Rinaldi has a go at imagining what it was like to be in the middle of Nat Turner’s ...Read Review

The Grand Inquisitor’s Manual: A History of Terror in the Name of God

By Jonathan Kirsch - Published 2008

Genres:

Nonfiction

Jonathan Kirsch does not mince words or cater to delicate sensibilities in this well-documented history of the Inquisition’s 600 year reign of terror. ...Read Review

Becoming Queen

By Kate Williams - Published 2008

Genres:

Nonfiction

Despite the picture on the cover of a young Queen Victoria, this book is actually about both her and Princess Charlotte, George IV’...Read Review

The Whispering Bell

By Brian Sellars - Published 2009

Genres:

Literary

In Anglo-Saxon Mercia at the time of King Penda’s wars, the orphan Wynflaed is taken in and raised by a kindly thegn ...Read Review

People of the Thunder

By Kathleen O'Neal Gear - By W. Michael Gear - Published 2009

Genres:

Adventure

It’s about 1300 CE in what today is Mississippi and Alabama. The dominant Sky Hand people have quickly risen to power under the ...Read Review

Luther’s Ambassadors

By Jay Margrave - Published 2008

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

In the second of Margrave’s “mystorical” novels Tom Priedeux jumps from 1399, where we left him in The Gawain Quest, to the reign ...Read Review

Fire At Midnight

By Lisa Marie Wilkinson - Published 2009

Genres:

AdventureRomance

Rachael Penrose has been confined to Bedlam by her wicked uncle Victor, who frames her in order to steal her inheritance. Unfortunately for ...Read Review

Agincourt

By Bernard Cornwell - Published 2008 (UK)Published 2009 (US)

Genres:

AdventureMilitary

Agincourt is a stunning ride through the battle best known from Shakespeare’s Henry V. Through the eyes of archer Nicholas Hook, I ...Read Review