HNR Issue 50 (November 2009)
A Boardwalk Story
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Fifteen-year-old Jack Laurel comes of age in his home town – Atlantic City, still the “Playground of the World” even in 1939, the tenth year ...Read Review
King Arthur’s Bones
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This is an anthology of mystery novellas by the writing team of Michael Jecks, Susanna Gregory, Bernard Knight, Ian Morson, and Philip Gooden, ...Read Review
Pirate Hunter
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This story interweaves between the 18th century in the West Indies and Key West of the 21st century. Captain Henry Thatch, a notorious ...Read Review
New York: The Novel
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Edward Rutherfurd says that “New York’s magnificent gift to the storyteller is a four-century history as exciting as that of any place ...Read Review
The Book of the Alchemist
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Imagine the Arabian Nights transposed to the Spanish Civil War, or rather the narrator transposed to Andalusia in 1938, for like Scheherazade the narrator ...Read Review
House of Angels
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This is the first book by Freda Lightfoot I have read and, despite the fact that I am not a lover of sagas, ...Read Review
An Irish Country Village
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Ulster in the 1960s. In the village of Ballybucklebo, 24-year-old Dr Barry Laverty gladly accepts a year as full-time assistant in Dr Fingal ...Read Review
The Private Papers of Eastern Jewel
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“In 1914, at the age of eight years, I was caught spying on my father Prince Su as he made love to a fourteen-year-old ...Read Review
Angel with Two Faces
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This is the second novel featuring crime writer, Josephine Tey as a sleuth. She is invited to visit the Cornish home of Inspector ...Read Review
The Kindly Ones
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This is an immense novel; both in terms of its size, for it was a physical challenge to take this on the daily ...Read Review