HNR Issue 99 (February 2022)
When We Lost Our Heads
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In late 19th-century Montreal, girls and women are filled with rage in Heather O’Neill’s When We Lost Our Heads. The story ...Read Review
Walking the Divide: A Tale of a Journey Home
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In 1947, at the time of the Partition of India, Europe was still in the grip of the aftereffects of World War Two, preoccupied ...Read Review
Sigurd’s Swords: A Viking Age Novel (Olaf’s Saga Book 2)
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In 968 AD, two young Norse warriors, Torgil and Olaf, find themselves fighting for their lives within the Swedish Viking-controlled land of the Rus ...Read Review
Rotherwood: A Prequel to Ivanhoe
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England and the Holy Land are the settings of this 12th-century imagining of Wilfred of Ivanhoe’s life over the four years before ...Read Review
Heart of the Impaler
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Steeped in 15th-century blood, Delacroix has brought Transylvanian and Wallachian history vividly to life. The fact that one central character is a young ...Read Review
The Music Makers (Timeshift Victorian Mysteries)
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In her second Victorian time-shift novel, Walsh again uses the dual-timeline narrative motif, incorporating some characters from The Wind Chime. In 2020, Eleanor Wilder ...Read Review
The Whaler’s Daughter
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At the turn of the 20th century in Australia, twelve-year-old Savannah Dawson dreams of the day her father will invite her to participate ...Read Review
The Tudors in Love: The Courtly Code Behind the Last Medieval Dynasty
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How did fine amour, that social code of romantic behaviour born in 11th-century France, come to define the lives and fate of iconic ...Read Review
The Heart of the Run (The Moorheads)
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This is the fictionalized history of the Muirhead family (later Moorhead), in Scotland and Ireland from 1648 to 1764. The novel begins with Alexander Moorhead, ...Read Review
Carolina Built
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Carolina Built is the nearly forgotten story of entrepreneur Josephine Leary and her desire and perseverance to create a life of her own. ...Read Review
