HNR Issue 74 (November 2015)

Game of Queens: A Novel of Vashti and Esther

By India Edghill - Published 2015

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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)

By James Wilde - Published 2015Published 2015-08-13

Genres:

Military

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

By Eugene Vodolazkin - By Lisa Hayden (trans.) - Published 2015

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Literary

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

By Joyce Elson Moore - Published 2015

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Mystery/Crime

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

By J. C. Briggs - Published 2015

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Mystery/Crime

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

By Karen Hawkins - Published 2015

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Romance

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

By Charlie Lovett - Published 2015

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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

By Andrew Swanston - Published 2015

Genres:

MilitaryNautical

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

By Anita Davison - Published 2015

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

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

By Tim Griffiths - Published 2015

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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

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