HNR Issue 50 (November 2009)
The Ballad of Trenchmouth Taggart
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Trenchmouth Taggart lives three different lives over his 108 years, spanning the years from 1903 to 2010. Dumped into a river during a strange version of ...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
The Seven Fires of Mademoiselle
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Young Carlota is the daughter of an Argentinian diplomat in the US during the Kennedy years. Her governess – the eponymous Mademoiselle – is a ...Read Review
Roses
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Howbutker, a small town in east Texas, is home to three dynasties: the DuMonts, the Warwicks, and the Tolivers. The history of the ...Read Review
A Short History of Women
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“‘What can be done?’ asks Man.‘What cannot be done?’ answers Woman.” This apt quote signifies the thrust of five generations of women ...Read Review
Invasion
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Commander Thomas Kydd, RN, is determined to once again sally forth to protect England from the threat of Napoleonic France. In this tenth ...Read Review
