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HNR Issue 50 (November 2009)

The Unbelievers

By Alastair Sim - Published 2009

Genres:

In Victorian Edinburgh in an age when the Highlands were being cleared of the local peasants in order for the wealthy landlords to ...Read Review

The Tehran Conviction

By Tom Gabbay - Published 2009

Genres:

Thriller

The third novel to feature Gabbay’s CIA sleuth, Jack Teller, pivots between Teller’s 1953 assignment in Iran and his return in 1979. In 1953 ...Read Review

Invasion

By Julian Stockwin - Published 2009

Genres:

Adventure Nautical

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

The Jade Cat

By Anne Born (trans.) - By Suzanne Brøgger - Published 2004 Published 2009

Genres:

Literary

The Løvin family has survived world-changing events, including two world wars and the persecution of Jews by the Nazis, but the dramas ...Read Review

The Missing

By Tim Gautreaux - Published 2009

Genres:

Literary

Sam Simoneaux arrived in France for the Great War just in time to clean up after the Germans. Not a pleasant job, and ...Read Review

The Coral Thief

By Rebecca Stott - Published 2009 Published 2010

Genres:

Literary Thriller

Young Daniel Connor travels on a career-expanding venture to the post-Napoleonic Paris of 1815. A medical student from Scotland, Daniel carries a letter of ...Read Review

The Other Eden

By Sarah Bryant - Published 2006 Published 2009

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Sarah Bryant is unquestionably a talented writer who deserves a wide readership. Her historical novel set during the time of the Crusades, Sand ...Read Review

Unfinished Desires

By Gail Godwin - Published 2009

Genres:

Literary

As this novel opens, Mother Suzanne Ravenel, in her eighties in the year 2001 and the former headmistress of a Catholic girls’ school, is ...Read Review

A Glimpse at Happiness

By Jean Fullerton - Published 2009

Genres:

Saga

Josie O’Casey returns to East End London overjoyed to discover her childhood sweetheart, Patrick Nolan, is alive and well. Her happiness is ...Read Review