HNR Issue 53 (August 2010)
Great Maria
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Maria, the fourteen-year-old daughter of a robber baron in 11th century Italy, is given in marriage to Richard, an ambitious young knight. “I ...Read Review
Honour and the Sword
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1636 – the height of the Thirty Years War. As the story opens, Spanish armies invade King Louis XIII’s France. The sleepy border village ...Read Review
The Italian Potion
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Set in Restoration London, in 1663, this is Bewley’s first novel. As a journalist he is well able to string words together, and ...Read Review
The Pursuit
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Set in the spring of 1792, the title captures the main thrust of the 36-gun frigate HMS Expedient’s crew mission in this, the ...Read Review
Roy & Lillie: A Love Story
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The admiration the infamous Judge Roy Bean had for Lillie Langtry, the “Professional Beauty” of late Victorian society, has been the stuff of ...Read Review
My Lady Domino
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This frothily entertaining Regency romance features the beautiful Adele Russell, once rich and pampered, now penniless and forced to earn her own living ...Read Review
Silver and Gold
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In 1895, in the Yukon Territory, young Delin Wetherwax is a reclusive prospector known for his uncanny ability to find gold and silver. This ...Read Review
The House of Special Purpose
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In this so-called ‘novel of the Romanovs’, John Boyne does what he has done so successfully in his previous novels, The Boy in ...Read Review
Fall of Giants
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This ambitious novel, the first of a projected trilogy covering most of the 20th century, tells the story of five interrelated families—American, ...Read Review
Nights Beneath the Nation
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Told in the first person, this novel, part gay love story and part mystery, just misses being very good. It is beautifully, even ...Read Review
