HNR Issue 75 (February 2016)

At the Existentialist Cafe: Freedom, Being and Apricot Cocktails

By Sarah Bakewell - Published 2016

Genres:

Nonfiction

Sarah Bakewell’s latest non-fiction book, At the Existentialist Café, documents her passion for existentialism through linked biographies of the movements’ King and ...Read Review

Stolen Horses

By Bill Brooks - Published 2016

Genres:

Western

Ranger Ballard finds two charred bodies in a burned-out ramshackle house on the Texas Panhandle. The Foley brother and sister lived in that ...Read Review

A Reckless Desire: A Breconridge Brothers Novel

By Isabella Bradford - Published 2016

Genres:

Romance

Set in England in 1775, this is the third of a historical romance trilogy, in which the highly eligible sons of a duke fall ...Read Review

Rawhide Robinson Rides the Tabby Trail

By Rod Miller - Published 2015

Genres:

Western

This is Miller’s second western featuring Rawhide Robinson. A line in the first few pages sets the tone: “It was the late 1870...Read Review

Dandy Gilver & the Unpleasantness in the Ballroom

By Catriona McPherson - Published 2015

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

The Dandy Gilver novels are a 1930s pastiche, imitating and gently satirising the detective novels of the Golden Age (Dorothy Sayers, Agatha Christie, ...Read Review

The Man Who Spoke Snakish

By Andrus Kivirähk - By Christopher Mosley (trans.) - Published 2015

Genres:

Historical FantasyLiterary

In The Man Who Spoke Snakish, Estonian writer Andrus Kivirähk weaves a melancholy, often brutal, tale of the last gasp of an ...Read Review

Hidden Inheritance: Family Secrets, Memory, and Faith

By Heidi B. Neumark - Published 2015

Genres:

InspirationalNonfiction

With a simple click on a website, Heidi Neumark’s knowledge of herself, her belief system, and her heritage was irrevocably changed. In ...Read Review

Dictator

By Robert Harris - Published 2015Published 2016

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In 58 BC, Cicero is exiled. Once the staunch defender of the Republic, the canny orator didn’t reckon with the machinations of the ...Read Review

The Stolen Queen

By Lisa Hilton - Published 2015

Genres:

This novel, about Isabelle of Angoulême, King John’s second wife, is very well written, and Lisa Hilton has obviously done a ...Read Review

The Words in My Hand

By Guinevere Glasfurd - Published 2016

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

The Words in My Hand, the debut novel from Guinevere Glasfurd, tells the story of Helena Jans, a Dutch maid in the 17th ...Read Review

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