HNR Issue 49 (August 2009)
Roman Diary
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The subtitle of this illustrated children’s book is “The Journal of Iliona of Mytilini, Who Was Captured and Sold as a Slave ...Read Review
Constable in Love, Love, Landscape, Money and the Making of a Great Painter
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When John Constable, a struggling young painter, fell in love with Maria Bicknell, daughter of a prominent London lawyer, it was not only ...Read Review
The Honored Dead
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In 1883, President Arthur orders Lt. Commander Peter Wake on a secret mission into French Indochina. As an intelligence officer, Wake travels the Mekong ...Read Review
House of Shadows: A Historical Mystery by the Medieval Murderers
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This compendium of short stories by five well-known and talented authors of medieval mysteries, each a star in his or her own right, ...Read Review
The Fire of Ares
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Ancient Sparta. Lysander is a helot – a slave – in Sparta, one of the most ruthless states in the Classical world. All Spartan males ...Read Review
Hannah Pritchard, Pirate of the Revolution
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Hannah Pritchard, a young teenaged New York farm girl, returns to her home after a carefree day of berry gathering to discover her ...Read Review
We Two: Victoria and Albert: Rulers, Partners, Rivals
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Gill, biographer of Florence Nightingale, turns her attention to one of the most famous marriages of 19th-century England, that of Victoria and her ...Read Review
Apocalypse 2012
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Gary Jennings, author of many historical thrillers including Aztec, died in 1999, leaving behind notes of ideas for further stories. Editor Robert Gleason and ...Read Review
Dido
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When Aeneas and his soldiers, battle-weary and almost shipwrecked, arrive on the shores of Carthage seeking refuge they are welcomed with open arms ...Read Review
Sovay
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1794. England. The government is in the grip of paranoia about the effects of the French Revolution on Britain’s political stability. Any Republican ...Read Review