HNR Issue 102 (November 2022)
The Orphan’s Mother
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In the last winter of World War II, Emma and her two children (a German family) are trapped in Poland. The Russian army ...Read Review
The Belle of Belgrave Square (Belles of London)
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In Victorian London, Julia Wychwood is an only child of two sickly parents, and in possession of a fortune. Modern readers will recognize ...Read Review
The Winter Orphans
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This stirring World War II novel of courage and sacrifice focuses on 100 Jewish orphans whose parents send them to France in 1942 for their ...Read Review
The Brighter the Light
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Told in dual timelines, one in 2022 and the other in 1950, The Brighter the Light tells the story of the women who run the ...Read Review
Murder in the Cathedral (A Reverend Mother Mystery, 9)
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Book 9 of the Reverend Mother series, set in Cork, Ireland in the 1920s, finds the Reverend Mother Aquinas shaken after the death of ...Read Review
The Piano Player
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The Piano Player is a thoroughly researched and impressive Irish novel from Poolbeg Press, which always publishes quality novels. It is cleverly plotted, ...Read Review
Bitter Draughts (The Paris Trilogy)
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Paris Police Detective Michael Devaux excels at solving crimes in 1898 Paris. A varied cast of characters befriend him and sometimes aid him, including ...Read Review
The Clockwork Queen
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18th-century St Petersburg, Russia. The autocratic Empress, Catherine the Great, has summoned the grandmaster of chess, Mr. Peshka, to teach her unstable son ...Read Review
The Girls in Navy Blue
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One of the pitfalls of the dual-timeline novel is that one story often overshadows the other. Happily, that is not the case for ...Read Review
A Jewish Girl in Paris
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It is 1940, and Judith lives with her mother in a small flat in Paris. She is a student at the Sorbonne and works ...Read Review
