HNR Issue 75 (February 2016)
At the Existentialist Cafe: Freedom, Being and Apricot Cocktails
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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