HNR Issue 74 (November 2015)
Game of Queens: A Novel of Vashti and Esther
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This is a sprawling tale that, despite the title, is as much about two men, Daniel and Hegai, as it is about queens. ...Read Review
Hereward: The Immortals: (Hereward 5)
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Hereward the Wake is one of a plethora of lesser-known British folk heroes, an adventurer who carried on a guerrilla war against the ...Read Review
Laurus
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Eugene Vodolazkin’s second novel, Laurus, is the winner of two major Russian literary awards. His first novel, Solovyov and Larionov, also garnered ...Read Review
The Stockholm Castle Mystery
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In 1649 Sweden, a Polish soldier and lute player, Johan Sokolewski, is seeking refuge from the horrors of the Thirty Years War. He is ...Read Review
Death at Hungerford Stairs
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London, November 1849. The novelist Charles Dickens and Superintendent Sam Jones of Bow Street are looking for a missing boy and his dog. A ...Read Review
The Prince and I
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Set in 19th-century Scotland during what appears to be the time of the Napoleonic Wars, The Prince and I is the second installment ...Read Review
The Further Adventures of Ebenezer Scrooge
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The Further Adventures of Ebenezer Scrooge is a delightful sequel to Dickens’ A Christmas Carol that is imaginatively woven together by the author ...Read Review
Waterloo: The Bravest Man
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With the Bicentenary of Waterloo this year, Swanston’s novel takes us into the thick of the campaign. We experience both the confusion ...Read Review
Murder on the Minneapolis
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Never before have I read about a transatlantic crossing with so many murders. In 1902, the Minneapolis, a small cargo and passenger ship passes ...Read Review
Endurance
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Photographer Frank Hurley needs little introduction to anyone fascinated with early 20th century Antarctic exploration, or who has ever been moved by his ...Read Review