HNR Issue 66 (November 2013)
The Curse of Babylon
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This is another adventure of Brother Aelric, a monk in England who was once the Lord Aelric, a senior official in the eastern (...Read Review
Love on a Midsummer Night
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Having loved Christy English’s eloquent novel on Eleanor of Aquitaine (To Be Queen), I couldn’t wait to read more by this ...Read Review
The Altarpiece
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The Altarpiece inaugurates a series by first-time novelist Sarah Kennedy. Set in Tudor England, this story essentially lifts up the layers of English ...Read Review
The King’s Exile
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In spring 1648, scholar, bookseller and once royal cryptographer Thomas Hill is back in his bookshop in Hampshire, well content to be done with ...Read Review
The Aftermath
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Post-World War II Hamburg is a shell of its formerly elegant self. A week-long firestorm of bombing by the U.S. and Britain ...Read Review
Lady Jenny’s Christmas Portrait
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Lady Jenny Windham longs to escape to Paris to further her education as a painter but is hindered by Regency society’s expectations ...Read Review
The Wild Girl
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Beautifully written and told is this story of Dortchen Wild, who fell in love with Wilhelm Grimm the first time she saw him ...Read Review
The Pursuit of Mary Bennet
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This Regency novel is a continuation of Pride and Prejudice. It takes place a few years later and focuses on Mary Bennet. Jane ...Read Review
Fire Across the Veldt
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This is another book in the Simon Fonthill series, but with one important difference. Fonthill usually prefers to work for the army as ...Read Review
A Commonplace Killing
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The war may be over, but London is definitely not at peace in this darkly suspenseful novel set in London at the close ...Read Review
