HNR Issue 53 (August 2010)
Attila: The Gathering of the Storm
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In the second volume of William Napier’s Attila trilogy, the prince returns from exile to reclaim his place as king from his ...Read Review
People of the Longhouse
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This 17th installment of the Gears’ North America’s Forgotten Past series chronicles hostilities between several Iroquois tribes. In the story, eleven-year-old Odion ...Read Review
The Secret Confessions of Anne Shakespeare
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NB: This is a novel. This is among the great things historical novels can do. A year or so after her famous and ...Read Review
The Mistaken Wife
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1797 and in the aftermath of the French Revolution, General Bonaparte’s armies are sweeping across Europe. The British government is deeply concerned about ...Read Review
Barely a Lady
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Olivia Grace is aghast when she finds her ex-husband, Jack Wyndham, Earl of Gracechurch, wounded on the battlefield after Waterloo, dressed in the ...Read Review
King, Ship, and Sword
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In the fifteen previous well-received novels in the series, the Royal Navy’s Alan Lewrie has bedeviled the King’s enemies on land ...Read Review
A Family Affair
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Liberty Lane, the heroine of Peacock’s A Foreign Affair (UK title Death at Dawn) and A Dangerous Affair (Death of a Dancer) ...Read Review
The Orientalist and the Ghost
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A more apt title for Barker’s second novel (after the award-winning Sayonara Bar) would be The Orientalist and the Ghosts, as it ...Read Review
The Dead Republic
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This book is the last of a trilogy spanning Ireland’s political history in the 20th century, about a fictional character called Henry ...Read Review
Tomorrow River
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This is a gripping and engaging story of a young girl’s search for her mother who went missing in 1968. Set in a ...Read Review
