HNR Issue 84 (May 2018)
Templar Silks
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1219, England. William Marshal, England’s greatest knight, is on his deathbed. He has sent a trusted servant to fetch the precious Templar silks ...Read Review
Doubting Thomas
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On 8 January 1697, a young student at Edinburgh University, 20-year-old Thomas Aikenhead, was executed for blasphemy. This was the last execution in Britain for ...Read Review
Someone to Care
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A lady and a gentleman meet by accident at a country inn, and both decide to run off together for a brief affair, ...Read Review
The Katie Dugan Case
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Widower detective David Drummond has returned to his home and job in Wilmington, Delaware in October 1892, following two months with his son and ...Read Review
My Once and Future Duke
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A match between a conventional duke and a young woman without connections, surviving by her skill at gambling, seems highly unlikely. Sophie Campbell ...Read Review
The Last Brontë
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No lover of English literature needs an introduction to the Brontë Parsonage and its remarkable inhabitants, which can be both a blessing and ...Read Review
A Promise Given
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A Promise Given is an entertaining romp through the social mores of 1930s Chicago and England, with the American upper crust proving themselves ...Read Review
The Vain Conversation
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The Vain Conversation is based on a lynching: in 1946 two African-American couples, including a pregnant woman, were brutally murdered in Walton County, Georgia ...Read Review
I Was Anastasia
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I’ll start by revealing that I’m a huge Romanov junkie, and so predisposed to like this novel. With a very few ...Read Review
Dear Mrs Bird
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London, 1942. Emmy Lakes is an eager young woman who aspires to be a journalist tackling the hard issues of the day. She shares ...Read Review
