HNR Issue 50 (November 2009)
Twilight of a Queen
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The titular queen in the fifth novel in Carroll’s 16th-century saga is Catherine de Medici, dowager queen of France, whose influence and ...Read Review
The Silver Eagle
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The Silver Eagle, the second in a trilogy, picks up from where the earlier book, The Forgotten Legion, left off. Ten thousand legionaries ...Read Review
The Fruit of Her Hands
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Shira’s upbringing is different than other Jewish girls’ childhoods in 1224. Her widowed father, the esteemed Rabbi Shmuel ben Solomon and great Talmudic ...Read Review
Rebels and Traitors
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Like many an adolescent, Gideon Jukes is a young man rebelling against family constrictions and looking for his own path in life. He ...Read Review
Scaramouche
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1788, France. When André-Louis Moreau, illegitimate son of no-one knows who, witnesses the murder of his best friend by the arrogant Marquis de ...Read Review
Cleopatra’s Daughter
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In 30 BC, after the defeat and suicide of Antony and Cleopatra, their twin children, Alexander Helios and Cleopatra Selene, were taken to Rome ...Read Review
Outlaw
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Retellings of the Robin Hood legend are always interesting. This novel tells the tale from the point of view of the band’s ...Read Review
Transgressions
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The author of Transgressions (the playfully pen-named Erastes) has set her novel in the England of the 1640s, a time of enormous political ...Read Review
The Gathering Storm
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Set in 1791 at the height of British naval supremacy, this is a roller coaster of a nautical yarn liberally peppered with naval terminology ...Read Review
A Spell for the Revolution
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This second book in the Traitor to the Crown series finds Proctor Brown and Deborah Walcott continuing their battle against the Covenant, a ...Read Review
