HNR Issue 74 (November 2015)
The Wake
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Paul Kingsnorth’s challenging, heavily researched first novel, The Wake, is written in what he describes as a “shadow tongue” of Old English, ...Read Review
Rebellion
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Livi Michael returns to her Wars of the Roses saga, begun in Succession (HNR 71). It is the summer of 1462. Edward, Earl of March, ...Read Review
The Chosen Man
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In 1636, tulip bulbs in Holland are worth their weight in gold. The Vatican plans on forcing a financial scandal in the Low Countries ...Read Review
Thunder over the Superstitions
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The Superstition Mountains, located in the Arizona Territory, are the home to the Thunder God of the Chiricahuas Apache. The mountains also hold ...Read Review
What Became of the White Savage
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Narcisse Pelletier, an 18-year-old French sailor, returns from searching for water to find his ship gone. He is alone on the coast of ...Read Review
Forever Your Earl
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This is the first of The Wicked Quills of London, a Regency series about female writers in an era when such unladylike conduct ...Read Review
Tyger: A Kydd Sea Adventure
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In the early 1800s, with the Napoleonic Wars still raging, Captain Kydd brings his frigate, L’Aurore, into Plymouth Hoe. He is home ...Read Review
Wilberforce
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Wilberforce chronicles life for Morgan Wilberforce at St. Stephen’s boys’ academy in 1926, where boredom and hormones are often released with spats on ...Read Review
Secrets She Kept
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When Hannah Sterling’s mother dies, Hannah is left with a longing for a relationship she never had with her stern, domineering mother. ...Read Review
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?
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In the 1930s, America is clearly a county in transition. The economy is on a downward spiral, and the majority of citizens are ...Read Review
