HNR Issue 68 (May 2014)
The Middle of Nowhere
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Comity Pinny’s mother dies of a snake bite in the remote Australian outback where her father runs the telegraph station in Kinkindele. ...Read Review
Edwardian Fashion
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Edwardian Fashion, a slim book that traverses the female and male fashions from roughly 1900-1915, provides a good deal of information despite its ...Read Review
For Love of Glory: The Emma Hamilton Story
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Leslie Fish takes on the inevitable task of completing Bradda Field’s Bride of Glory, which ended begging for a sequel that never ...Read Review
A Talent for Trouble
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This inspirational romance takes place in New York City in 1881. Felicia Murdock has spent the last four years suppressing her natural taste for ...Read Review
The Vicar’s Wife
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When New Yorker Jane Hatton’s British husband prompts their relocation to a small village on the Cumbrian coast of England, only her ...Read Review
Servants’ Hall: A Real-Life Upstairs, Downstairs Romance
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Servants’ Hall brings domestic service in 1920s England to life through the memoirs of Margaret Powell (1907-1984), author-narrator, and ‘below stairs’, kitchen maid ...Read Review
The Northmen’s Fury: A History of the Viking World
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The author has achieved the subtitle’s description in 340 pages (excluding the extensive notes, etc). ‘The situation became very complicated,’ he writes on ...Read Review
She Wrote on Clay
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She Wrote on Clay depicts daily life in the ancient Mesopotamian city of Sippar with great detail and scholarly research. I enjoyed Graetz’...Read Review
Imperial Fire
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In this sequel to Hawk Quest, Vallon, older, harder and perhaps even wiser, has become one of Byzantium’s great generals. Emperor Alexius ...Read Review
The Queen’s Man
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This is the sixth novel in Clements’ John Shakespeare series, although it is a prequel to his first book and is set in 1582. ...Read Review
