HNR Issue 57 (August 2011)
The Salt Road
In The Salt Road, Jane Johnson creates twin narratives about women from very different cultures who both take the eponymous…
The Moment
Just as writer Thomas Nesbitt’s marriage fades to a close, a package arrives from Germany bearing the name, ‘Dussman’. It…
Next to Love
Editors' choice
Babe, Grace, and Millie are three lifelong friends, living in South Downs. They share more than their hopes and dreams;…
The Paperbark Shoe
Take an albino piano-playing prodigy who has been committed to a mental hospital by her evil stepfather, marry her to…
Remember Ben Clayton
What a thoughtful, psychologically penetrating novel this is. The action begins in a terrifying battle near the end of World…
Pattern of Shadows
Mary is a nursing sister at a Lancashire prison for the housing and treatment of German POWs; although her work…
A Game of Lies
In this third book in a series, journalist Hannah Vogel, wanted by the Nazis, returns to Berlin, ostensibly to cover…
Madame Bovary’s Daughter
Picking up in 1852, a year after the shattering end of Flaubert’s famous novel, young Berthe is burying her father.…
Daughter of Providence
Editors' choice
The Dodge family was among the first to settle in Rhode Island back when it was a colony, and now,…
Conquest
The Battle of Trafalgar has been won, but even before Nelson’s body has been interred, Captain Thomas Kydd finds himself…
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