HNR Issue 53 (August 2010)
The Tulip Virus
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This mystery neatly ties together events in Alkmaar, Holland in the 17th century with those in London in the present day. In 1636, a ...Read Review
Young Samurai: The Way of the Sword
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1612, Japan. This is Jack Fletcher’s second samurai adventure. Now thirteen, he has been adopted by the venerated samurai Matamoto and is now ...Read Review
The Story of Robin Hood
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This simple tale has the bare bones of the Robin Hood story: Robin Hood, Sherwood Forest, the outlaw band who rob the rich ...Read Review
The Lark and the Laurel
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1485. The Wars of the Roses are over and Henry Tudor is on the throne. The defeated Yorkist, Sir Thomas Jolland, on his way ...Read Review
The Great Silence, 1918-1920: Living in the Shadow of the Great War
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This is the story of the pause between the Armistice in November 1918 and the interment of the unknown soldier in Westminster Abbey exactly ...Read Review
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