HNR Issue 79 (February 2017)
The Dark Days Pact
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Picking up the narrative in 1812, just a few weeks after the end of the preceding book, The Dark Days Pact jumps right back ...Read Review
Clover Moon
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Eleven-year-old Clover Moon lives in a back street slum in Victorian London with her six siblings and her put-upon father. Mildred, her unpleasant ...Read Review
Caliburn: Merlin’s Tale
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Over the years, the story of King Arthur and the Sword in the Stone has been reworked in every facet of media—books, ...Read Review
My Enemy, My Heart
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The war of 1812 has begun, unbeknownst to the American crew of the Maid of Alexandria. Part of the Baltimore clipper’s crew, Deirdre ...Read Review
Guide Me Home
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Rebekah’s story begins with her hearing and partially seeing a heartbreaking scene in which her father feebly attempts to comfort her mother. ...Read Review
Cloak of Ashes: The Women of Beowulf
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Seventh-century Scandinavia: Freawaru, the daughter of a king and the lover of the renowned warrior Beowulf, is a seer in her own right ...Read Review
The English Agent
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I’ve often found that when I inadvertently pick up a book that is later in a series, I have a difficult time ...Read Review
The Demon in the Embers
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Joe is an 11-year-old boy with a St Christopher medallion that enables him to travel back in time. Trouble is, he has little ...Read Review
A History of Britain in 21 Women: A Personal Selection
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Dame Jenni Murray, writer and doyenne of BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour, here offers brief but highly illuminating biographies of 21 determined, pioneering ...Read Review
Incendium
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Fire, fear, and rebellion—first in France, then in England, aimed at the deposition of Queen Elizabeth, and the restoration of Catholic Queen ...Read Review