HNR Issue 102 (November 2022)
The Hidden Room
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The Hidden Room follows a Ukrainian family hiding from the Nazis during the last year of World War II. Jacob, his parents, sister ...Read Review
One Woman’s War: A Novel of the Real Miss Moneypenny
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England, WWII: and another take on Operation Mincemeat, the most famous espionage operation of any war you care to mention. (It involved tossing ...Read Review
Ancestry
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Recent years have seen the growing popularity of what is generally known as auto-fiction, in which the writer utilizes elements of his or ...Read Review
The Prisoner and the Writer
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Captain Alfred Dreyfus, wrongly accused of treason by the French government in 1894, was imprisoned on Devil’s Island, off the South American coast. ...Read Review
John Agard’s Windrush Child
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The arrival in Britain of people from the Caribbean on the ship the Empire Windrush has been the subject of several recent picture ...Read Review
A Mother’s Fight (The Lancashire Girls Book 2)
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1818 Bolton. This second book of The Lancashire Girls series follows Hannah’s struggles to feed her three children. The impoverished wife of a ...Read Review
A Truth to Lie For: An Elena Standish Novel
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It is 1934, and Britain’s MI6 recognizes that something unfathomable is evolving in Germany as they witness the rise of Adolf Hitler. In ...Read Review
The Garden of Angels
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Venice was occupied by the Germans in WW2 for only 20 months (September 1943 to April 1945), but the occupation lay heavily upon the city. The ...Read Review
The Horse Master’s Daughter (Nordun’s Way)
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Tibet, 1285. As a child, Nordun was left by her father at a monastery where her grandmother served as nun. She never knew of ...Read Review
At the Breakfast Table
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Defne Suman is the author of The Silence of Scheherazade, a powerful story about the last days of the Ottoman Empire and the ...Read Review
