HNR Issue 102 (November 2022)
Bar Kokhba: The Jew Who Defied Hadrian and Challenged the Might of Rome
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Part travelogue yet still solid non-fiction history, this is a story about two fascinating personalities and the doomed attempt of one, Bar Kokhba, ...Read Review
A Quality Street Christmas
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Autumn 1938, and unease about a possible war is spreading among the workers of Mackintosh’s chocolate factory in Halifax, Yorkshire, especially as some ...Read Review
The Devil’s Blaze (Sherlock Holmes in WWII)
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Fans of Sherlock Holmes will welcome this latest addition to the great detective’s myth. Robert J. Harris sets this novel at the ...Read Review
Murder Through the English Post (A Beryl and Edwina Mystery)
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In 1920s England, someone in the sleepy little village of Walmsley Parva is determined to disrupt a lot of lives. As poisoned-pen letters ...Read Review
A Twist of Murder (A Dickens of a Crime)
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This is the fifth in a series featuring the youthful Charles Dickens as an amateur sleuth investigating a rot at a private school ...Read Review
To Love a Viking (Tavland Vikings)
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To Love a Viking is set primarily in fictional Tavland, an island near Norway, during the years 998-999 AD, when Christianity was spreading ...Read Review
Escape Route
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Growing up in New York City in the late 1960s, 13-year-old Zach’s life is defined by his Jewish roots and the war ...Read Review
Hardland: A Novel
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Countering the notion that a Western is usually a genre book for relaxed reading, Hardland portrays the reality of working women in Arizona ...Read Review
An Ocean Apart
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In 1954, sisters Connie and Ruby Haynes sail from Barbados to England to join a nurse training programme to aid the fledging National Health ...Read Review
The Call of the Cormorant
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Subtitled “An Unreliable Biography,” this indeed tells the story of a most unreliable and slippery artist, Karl Einarsson. Born in Iceland, he grows ...Read Review
