HNR Issue 82 (November 2017)
Clytemnestra: The Mother’s Blade
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Set firmly in the Bronze Age, this novel once again gives us the eternally re-fought conflict that ensued, when the Greek city-states, led ...Read Review
Under the Approaching Dark
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Adam de Guirande deeply desires an end to the turbulence in his world. In the year 1327, Hugh Despenser and his lord, King Edward ...Read Review
The Queen’s Prophet
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Gazing out from Velasquez’s Las Meninas, the enigmatic Maribarbola challenges the viewer with her thoughtful expression and genial dignity. She was one ...Read Review
Christmas at Carnton
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As Christmas 1863 approaches, recently-widowed Aletta Prescott loses her job and home. With one child and another on the way, possible employment for an ...Read Review
Workhouse Orphans
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Workhouse Orphans, described as “an uplifting story of the struggles of two children left with nowhere else to go”, is not the sort ...Read Review
Beyond the Rice Fields
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This powerful novel follows the lives of Fara and Tsito, her father’s slave, from their childhood through their adult lives, the alternating ...Read Review
Under the Heartless Blue
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It’s 1884, and Vera Palmer, widowed at twenty-three, has left middle-class Connecticut for a bookkeeping job at a frontier Arizona boardinghouse. But the ...Read Review
The Last Ballad
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North Carolina, 1929. Twenty-eight-year-old Ella May has come down from the hills of Tennessee to the textile mills of North Carolina in search of ...Read Review
The Price of Silence
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Set during WWI, The Price of Silence has Doctor Anthony Brooke, a secret agent for the British government, trying to make sense of ...Read Review
Death at the Emerald
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In Edwardian-era London, Lady Frances Ffolkes’s reputation as an amateur detective precedes her when she is commissioned by a wealthy widower to ...Read Review
