HNR Issue 55 (February 2011)
A Woman of Consequence
Impoverished spinster Dido Kent is back for a third case in this entertaining series. She has now had to give…
While We’re Far Apart
Austin has once again penned a delightful, heartwarming, yet wrenching story about World War II and the life-altering effects war…
Sad Stories of the Death of Kings
Gifford has strung together a set of vignettes and moments-in-time about Roy, a kid who lives in Chicago, at various…
The Last Brother
After a mudslide kills his two brothers, nine-year-old Raj and his parents leave the cane fields of Mauritius for the…
Amazir
Editors' choice
Harry Summerfield and Jim Wilding first meet by accident in Gibraltar in 1938, neither realising that this chance encounter will…
The Union Quilters
The Union Quilters, set in Water’s Ford, Pennsylvania in 1862 and continuing through the Civil War, is the latest in…
Hell’s Underground Series: Witch Breed
Editors' choice
Paul Rector is a well-behaved school boy who rarely breaks the rules. His only immediate family is his very protective…
The Wrong Miss Richmond
Henry Richmond is a crusty patriarch widower with two daughters by separate marriages. He has brought the family to Bath…
The Lover of Death
In the latest Erast Fandorin mystery, the resourceful orphan, Senka, a sort of Muscovite Artful Dodger, has his life changed…
The Jewel of St Petersburg
A dramatic and exciting opening in the forest sets the political scene for a pre-revolutionary Russia in upheaval as the…
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