HNR Issue 100 (May 2022)
This Fierce Blood
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Three generations of women are profiled in three different time periods, and three different places in the United States. They all have one ...Read Review
The Ship of Cloud and Stars
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This is a bright, visually attractive novel which blends information, adventure and fantasy, ably illustrated by George Ermos. Nico Cloud, undervalued at home ...Read Review
The Hemlock Cure
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The story is centred mostly in the Derbyshire village of Eyam, famous as the place where the residents agreed to quarantine themselves in 1666 ...Read Review
The Time Traveler’s Guide to Regency Britain: A Handbook for Visitors to 1789–1830
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If you love the Regency era like I do, then this is the book for you! Within the pages of The Time Traveler’...Read Review
The Porcelain Doll
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1991. Rosie is a young doctoral student at Oxford. Until the age of eleven, she was Raisa, and lived in Moscow with her Russian ...Read Review
Black Cake
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In 2018, after their mother Eleanor’s death, estranged siblings Byron and Benedetta “Benny” Bennett return to their California home for the memorial and ...Read Review
A Sin of Omission
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A heart-wrenching story elevated through luminous writing, Marguerite Poland’s fictional tribute to a historical Black South African missionary was shortlisted for the 2020 ...Read Review
The Plague Letters
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The plague is creeping through London, parish by parish. It is the summer of 1665, and those who can are escaping the city. Symon ...Read Review
The Vow: A Requiem for the Fifties
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The Vow is a complex and multi-layered novel about architect Kamil Modráček, who confronts the harsh reality of Gottwald’s Stalinist regime ...Read Review
The Finder of Forgotten Things
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Summer 1932. Handsome 28-year-old Sullivan “Sulley” Harris drifts from town to town in West Virginia, claiming expertise as a dowser. When his well locations ...Read Review