HNR Issue 75 (February 2016)
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
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
The Flying Years
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Angus Munro and his parents, evicted from their lands, leave Scotland for Canada in the 1850s. Eventually Angus travels further west and secretly ...Read Review
Wheels of Terror
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The author, who died in 2012, was born in Denmark but served in the Wehrmacht during the Second World War. In his visceral and ...Read Review
The Lost Heiress: Lady of the Manor
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Brook Eden is raised in the palace of Monaco. In 1910, through the investigations of her closest friend, Justin, Brook discovers she is the ...Read Review
Yanks and Limeys: Alliance Warfare in the Second World War
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In spite of the title, this book only covers land warfare in the European theatre and says nothing about the cooperation of navies ...Read Review
The Ugly Renaissance: Sex, Greed, Violence and Depravity in an Age of Beauty
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In his well-detailed and thoroughly researched book, The Ugly Renaissance, Alexander Lee turns our attention to the unattractive underside of what we think ...Read Review
Saxon: The Pope’s Assassin
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In this third instalment of Tim Severin’s Saxon series set at the end of the 8th century, The Pope’s Assassin brings ...Read Review
The Vatican Princess: A Novel of Lucrezia Borgia
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Pity Lucrezia Borgia and the legacy of historical gossip permanently attached to her. Simply saying the name conjures up titillating visions of wealth, ...Read Review
Ascension
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Gregory Dowling’s fifth novel, his first foray into historical territory, is set in mid-18th century Venice and introduces a charming protagonist ...Read Review
