HNR Issue 66 (November 2013)
Teatime for the Firefly
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Teatime for the Firefly creates a vivid portrayal of the exotic world of the Assam tea plantations and Indian life during both WWII ...Read Review
Henry and Rachel
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In the second decade of the 20th century, Rachel, the author’s great-grandmother, uprooted herself and four of her children from their home ...Read Review
The Jacobite Murders
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According to the back cover blurb G M Best has received good reviews for his previous books, and it is true that the ...Read Review
The Pagan Lord
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I do not generally read series of books, but I do read the Uhtred books, and greet each one with pleasure. It inevitably ...Read Review
Strangled in Paris
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Courentin Jourdan rescues the young Sophie Clairsange from the tides along the Normandy Coast. He revives her and sends her to the nuns ...Read Review
It Happened at the Fair
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Gist does a fine job of capturing the splendor of the 1893 Columbian Exposition, partly through the use of photographs and contemporary drawings. Cullen, ...Read Review
Neville’s Quest
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The action takes place in 1754. Thomas Neville is in search of his lost love Emily, and to find her, he travels across the ...Read Review
Sweet Thunder
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Ivan Doig’s third historical novel featuring erudite con man Morrie Morgan finds our hero in 1921 Butte, Montana, back from his year-long honeymoon ...Read Review
Daughter of the God-King
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Daughter of the God-King takes places in the early 19th century, at the time of the Congress of Vienna and Napoleon’s exile ...Read Review
The Signature of All Things
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Brimming with verve, wit, and intellectual curiosity, Gilbert’s absorbing epic embodies the spirit of the transformative 19th century: an age of exploration, ...Read Review
