HNR Issue 49 (August 2009)

Roman Diary

By David Parkins - By Richard Platt - Published 2009

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

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

By Martin Gayford - Published 2009

Genres:

Nonfiction

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

By Robert N. Macomber - Published 2009

Genres:

AdventureNautical

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

By Bernard Knight - By Ian Morson - By MICHAEL JECKS - By Philip Gooden - By Susanna Gregory - Published 2007Published 2009

Genres:

Mystery/CrimeShort Stories

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

By Michael Ford - Published 2008

Genres:

AdventureChildren/Young Adult

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

By Bonnie Pryor - Published 2008

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

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

By Gillian Gill - Published 2009

Genres:

Nonfiction

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

By Gary Jennings - By Junius Podrug - By Robert Gleason - Published 2009

Genres:

Thriller

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

By Adele Geras - Published 2009

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

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

By Celia Rees - Published 2008

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

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