HNR Issue 50 (November 2009)
A Vein of Deceit
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This is the 15th chronicle in the series featuring Matthew Bartholomew, a Fellow of Michaelhouse College. Living in 14th-century Cambridge, Bartholomew has an ...Read Review
Love Not Poison
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Georgiana Grey moonlights as the Crimson Cavalier, highwayman extraordinary. Out on the roads one night she sees a fire at the home of ...Read Review
The Promise
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This story is set in Newcastle in 1885 and centres around a newspaper investigation into child prostitution within the city. Henry Brookfield is a ...Read Review
A Land Beyond Ravens
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At the very end of this novel, the fourth and final book of Guler’s Macsen’s Treasure series, Claerwen tells her husband ...Read Review
Staff Publication: Hugh and Bess
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Susan Higginbotham’s debut novel The Traitor’s Wife told the story of Eleanor, wife of Hugh le Despenser, intimate of King Edward ...Read Review
The Good Doctor Guillotin
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Biographical FictionLiteraryNonfiction
The lives of five men converge in on one epochal event – the first use of the guillotine as a method of capital punishment ...Read Review
Across the Endless River
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AdventureBiographical FictionWestern
The youngest member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, Jean-Baptiste Charbonneau became a ward of William Clark, then a trapper and a guide ...Read Review
Pendragon’s Banner
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Pendragon’s Banner, the second book in Helen Hollick’s take on the Arthurian legend, follows closely behind The Kingmaking. Arthur has won ...Read Review
Serpent in the Thorns: A Medieval Noir
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This is the second entry in a series featuring medieval private detective Crispin Guest, the Tracker. Seven years before, Crispin had been entangled ...Read Review
The Fraud
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The time is the 18th century. The Marshalls are a faded gentry family living in Bristol. After both parents and various siblings die ...Read Review
