HNR Issue 66 (November 2013)
Hereward: End of Days
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This is the third outing for Hereward the Wake, England’s 11th-century forgotten hero. In 1071, England is under the grip of the conquering ...Read Review
Behind the Shattered Glass
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The English countryside is the setting of Tasha Alexander’s latest Lady Emily mystery, set in Victorian times. Lady Emily, the eccentric heroine ...Read Review
Surrender to the Earl
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In 1843, widowed Audrey Blake, blind since childhood, has been held a virtual prisoner by her family since her husband’s death. She needs ...Read Review
Lady of Passion: The Story of Mary Robinson
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She was once “a leader of fashion, the doyenne of Drury Lane… the adored mistress of a royal prince,” but when Mary Robinson ...Read Review
Longbourn
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Longbourn is the story of the servants who work for the Bennet family of Pride and Prejudice, including the housekeeper, Mrs. Hill; her ...Read Review
Fallen Women
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Beret Osmundsen arrives in a Denver police station in the spring of 1885, determined to discover who murdered her younger sister, Lillie. Beret is ...Read Review
A Bargain Struck
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In Wyoming in the late 1800s, Connor Maguire, a widower with an eight-year-old daughter, Bridget, advertises for a wife. Ellen O’Sullivan, a ...Read Review
David
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Born and sold in 1847, David is the biracial child of a slave and her master. When David’s mother is freed, she begs ...Read Review
Lucknow Ransom
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This is the second novel in Anglo-Indian author Glen Peters’ proposed series of Mrs D’Silva novels. The main protagonist, Joan D’Silva, ...Read Review
Jade Boy
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Children/Young AdultHistorical Fantasy
The blurb says this is a ‘thrilling story of sorcery and mystery laced with macabre horror and historical detail’ – I couldn’t have ...Read Review
