HNR Issue 66 (November 2013)

Guests on Earth

By Lee Smith - Published 2013

Genres:

Literary

The narrator of Lee Smith’s (Fair and Tender Ladies, The Last Girls) latest novel is thirteen in 1926, when she is admitted to ...Read Review

A Dangerous Deceit

By Marjorie Eccles - Published 2013

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Margaret Rees-Talbot is engaged to marry curate Simon Scroope, but her happiness is overshadowed by the recent death of her father, Boer War ...Read Review

The Sword and the Throne

By Henry Venmore-Rowland - Published 2013

Genres:

AdventureMilitary

The Sword and the Throne continues the memoir begun in The Last Caesar (HNR 61) of Aulus Caecina Severus, an ambitious senator caught up ...Read Review

Hild

By Nicola Griffith - Published 2013

Genres:

Biographical FictionInspirational

Hild is three years old when the book opens. Even at that point, Hild’s worldview – as the “light of the world” her ...Read Review

The Walls of Byzantium

By James Heneage - Published 2013

Genres:

AdventureEpic

By 1392, the Byzantine Empire has been reduced to the city of Constantinople and the Peloponnese. There is talk of a mysterious treasure, rescued ...Read Review

Machiavelli: A Renaissance life

By Joseph Markulin - Published 2013

Genres:

Biographical FictionLiterary

Styled a “nonfiction novel,” Machiavelli is a doorstop of a book about the famous (and infamous) Florentine civil servant and philosopher who managed ...Read Review

The Reluctant Bride

By Beverley Eikli - Published 2013

Genres:

AdventureRomance

Set in the period after the French Revolution, this novel tells the story of Emily, who has no option but to marry Angus, ...Read Review

The Unmarked Road

By George Cadwalader - Published 2012

Genres:

Sgt. John “K-Bar” Caleb is one tough Marine. But after suffering serious wounds in Vietnam, the highly decorated vet winds up in the ...Read Review

Mr Darwin’s Gardener

By Kristina Carlson (trans. Emily and Fleur Jeremiah) - Published 2013

Genres:

Literary

This is not so much the story of Thomas Davies, the gardener, as of the villagers of Downe and the way in which ...Read Review

Hardcastle’s Traitors

By Graham Ison - Published 2013

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

1915. With England in the midst of war, Detective Inspector Ernest Hardcastle gets pulled from the streets of London into an international investigation. A ...Read Review

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