HNR Issue 53 (August 2010)
Child of the Morning
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Child of the Morning, set in ancient Egypt, follows Queen-Pharaoh Hatshepsut from her early childhood as the favorite daughter of Thothmes the First ...Read Review
The Sixth Surrender
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Young Sister Eustace (née Juliana de Charnais), learned but naïve, longs to experience the world outside the convent – the world of ...Read Review
His Last Duchess
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This debut novel is a fictionalised account of the real life Lucrezia de’Medici, probably best known for being the eponymous heroine in ‘...Read Review
The Rebellion of Jane Clarke
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It’s 1769, and Jane Clarke of Satucket, Cape Cod, has been banished from the family home as punishment by her domineering father after ...Read Review
A Lady Like Sarah
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In 1879 Missouri, the Reverend Justin Wells journeys west to begin his new post in Rocky Creek, Texas. He meets an injured U.S. ...Read Review
31 Bond Street
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Ellen Horan makes an impressive debut with 31 Bond Street, a novelized depiction of a sensational murder investigation in mid-19th century New York ...Read Review
Tom Wasp and the Newgate Knocker
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The dawn of the year 1863 sees London chimney sweep Tom Wasp visiting his friend Eliza in prison just before her execution. She’s ...Read Review
Johnny Montana
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Gold lures men to the Redhawk mining district of Montana in the late 1880s. Unfortunately, leaving the district with your gold is difficult ...Read Review
The Outside Boy
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Young Christy Hurley is a traveller, a Pavee gypsy, who migrates with his father and extended family around Ireland in the late 1950s. ...Read Review
Days of Grace
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Nora Lynch is sent to the countryside at the start of World War II. She is selected by Grace Rivers and her family ...Read Review
