Orion
How to Create the Perfect Wife
The feminist in me – not to mention the far from perfect wife – quailed at the title of this…
Call Nurse Millie
This novel, set in 1945, tells the story of Amelia (Millie) Sullivan, a Sister employed by St. George’s and St.…
Shakespeare’s Rebel
We first find John Lawley sleeping off a binge of epic proportions in a down-at-heel tavern in Southwark, London. Throughout…
Sun Catcher
The Bronze Age: a world of warring tribes, where each clan is protective of its own. Thirteen-year-old Maia is an…
The Chalice
Bilyeau’s first book, The Crown, brought us the determined but naïve Joanna Stafford, Dominican nun and daughter of a disgraced…
Back to Blackbrick
This beautifully-written time-slip novel explores memory loss, grief and family relationships. It’s narrated in a lively 21st-century voice by Cosmo,…
Maria and the Admiral
“We all have a story at our core that we may disown or admit. It is often about love.” In…
Clash of Empires: The Red Sea
This is a sequel to Clash of Empires: The Great Siege, which I have not read and the HNR did…
Elijah’s Mermaid
Editors' choice
There is always a fear that an author’s second novel will not live up to the first. I was very…
Ghost Knight
Eleven-year-old Jon Whitcroft is being sent to the Salisbury Cathedral Choir School where his late father once went. He’d convinced…
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