HNR Issue 64 (May 2013)
Hattie Ever After
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Hattie Brooks, the intrepid heroine of the Newbery-honor winning Hattie Big Sky, has returned – in a sequel with a strikingly different setting, but ...Read Review
Belle Epoque
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Sixteen-year-old Maude Pichon, daughter of a Breton shopkeeper, has always dreamed of life outside her small village. In a desperate attempt to avoid ...Read Review
The Hour of Peril
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Abraham Lincoln’s train journey from Illinois to Washington becomes a dangerous rush towards safety in Daniel Stashower’s meticulous account of the ...Read Review
Oscar Wilde and the Murders at Reading Gaol
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This sixth Oscar Wilde mystery is set largely during Wilde’s infamous period of imprisonment between 1895-1897, after he was sentenced to hard ...Read Review
Dark Prairie
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Nesbitt’s laconic 1890s Western opens when a stranger rides into the small town of Winsome, Wyoming. Dunbar has a lot of curiosity ...Read Review
Requiem for a Lost Empire
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This novel spans three generations – from 1917, when the narrator’s grandfather fought for the Red Army, through World War II, when his father ...Read Review
Three Houses
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This is a richly nostalgic and evocative account of the writer’s childhood with her younger brother (who also went on to publish ...Read Review
Vespasian III: False God of Rome
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Vespasian III is the latest instalment of Robert Fabbri’s saga of Vespasian’s rise from obscurity to the purple. The story begins ...Read Review
The Chalice
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Bilyeau’s first book, The Crown, brought us the determined but naïve Joanna Stafford, Dominican nun and daughter of a disgraced aristocratic ...Read Review
The Wells
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The first of a series to be called the Hope Trilogy, The Wells is a long, well-written read, a lovely blend of fact ...Read Review