HNR Issue 85 (August 2018)
The Passage to India
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1831, and the Reform Act extending the franchise, making its way through Parliament, is not universally popular. In the great city of Bristol, excitable ...Read Review
The Sunflower Girl
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Rosanna Chiofalo’s latest novel, The Sunflower Girl, sweeps the reader into the blossoming Tuscan countryside in a dual narrative: one part of ...Read Review
The Far River
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Workmen repairing earthquake damage to the outer wall of the Schaller winery in Largo Valley, California, expose a gaping hole in the solid ...Read Review
An Old, Cold Grave
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Independent and intelligent, Lane Winslow, although only in her twenties, has abandoned her wartime career as a secret agent, along with her native ...Read Review
The Siege and Fall of Troy
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A re-issue of Robert Graves’ retelling of the Homeric myths is always welcome, and the new introduction by Dan-El Padilla Peralta makes the ...Read Review
The Husband Hunters: American Heiresses Who Married Into the British Aristocracy
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This non-fiction book reads more vividly than many novels. The husband hunters might appear to be wealthy American young women hoping to marry ...Read Review
Knight of Sherwood
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Sherwood’s most famous resident is back for the second installment of N.B. Dixon’s Outlaw’s Legacy trilogy. Following Heir of ...Read Review
The Butcher’s Daughter
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Agnes Peppin, the butcher’s daughter of the title, has been caught in the age-old way of young women. Forced to leave behind ...Read Review
Mary B
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The Austen continuation genre has gained another literary take with this debut novel focused on the character of Mary Bennet. The story begins ...Read Review
The Hope of Azure Springs
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When an unknown young woman is found shot but barely alive, her appearance in Azure Springs sets off a chain of events Sheriff ...Read Review