HNR Issue 66 (November 2013)
Guests on Earth
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
