HNR Issue 65 (August 2013)
The Last King of Lydia
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Set in the Eastern Mediterranean in the 6th century BCE, this novel, as the name suggests, follows the life of Croesus (the last ...Read Review
The Ill-Made Knight
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Christian Cameron is a very successful historical novelist who has written a whole series of novels set in ancient Greece. Cameron has now ...Read Review
The Scorpion’s Nest
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This novel is the fourth in M.J. Trow’s Kit Marlowe series, which features Kit as a member of Sir Francis Walsingham’...Read Review
This House is Haunted
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Norfolk, 1867. Eliza Caine, aged 21, is alone in the world after the sudden death of her father. Still grieving, on a whim she moves ...Read Review
What the Duke Desires
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When Lisette Bonnaud’s father dies unexpectedly, she loses everything. Her parents never married, and her scheming half-brother George forces the Bonnauds from ...Read Review
The Collector of Lost Things
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In 1845, mankind’s wholesale, careless despoiling of the Arctic is underway. Collector Eliot Saxby has taken passage hoping to find survivors of the ...Read Review
The Family Mansion
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A complicated character study and darkly comedic look at early 19th-century plantation life, The Family Mansion tells the story of a young Englishman’...Read Review
Shorecliff
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Like most storied New England families, the Hatfields have their share of secrets. During the summer of 1928, the family gathers at Shorecliff, their ...Read Review
The Second-Last Woman in England
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Harriet Wallis, middle-class wife and mother in a respectable neighbourhood, has been accused of shooting her husband. But why would she want to ...Read Review
The Emperor of Paris
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That baker Octavio Notre-Dame will meet art restorer Isabeau Normande in C. S. Richardson’s second novel, The Emperor of Paris, is never ...Read Review
