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HNR Issue 104 (May 2023)

A Spoonful of Spying (Alice Éclair, Spy Extraordinaire!)

By Beatriz Castro (illus.) - By Sarah Todd Taylor - Published 2023

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This exuberant romp of a spy thriller is set against the backdrop of a fictionalised grand exhibition like the one which took place ...Read Review

Murder on the Salsette (Ocean Liner Mysteries, 6)

By Edward Marston - Published 2022

Genres:

Mystery/Crime Nautical

May 1909, and George Dillman and Genevieve Masefield embark upon their sixth ocean-going crime adventure in the series. Having been married at the end ...Read Review

A Disappearance in Fiji

By Nilima Rao - Published 2023

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Akal Singh is a Punjabi Sikh, demoted to work in Fiji, in 1914, for having made a fatal error in judgement in Hong Kong, ...Read Review

A New Path to Follow

By Elizabeth Jeffrey - Published 2022

Genres:

Saga

This family saga follows the four Barsham children, whose lives are thrown off course at the start of the First World War in 1914. ...Read Review

The Warlock Effect

By Andy Nyman - Published 2023

Genres:

Thriller

A young German Jew fleeing the Nazis, Ludvik plays card tricks to lure English boys away from tormenting him. Thus Louis Warlock the ...Read Review

The Long March Home

By Marcus Brotherton - By Tosca Lee - Published 2023

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Jimmy “Prop” Propfield, Hank Wright, and Billy Crockett are three teenage friends growing up around Mobile, Alabama at the end of the 1930s. ...Read Review

Blackbeard’s Treasure

By Elisa Paganelli (illus.) - By Iszi Lawrence - Published 2023

Genres:

Adventure Children/Young Adult Nautical

In 1718, eleven-year-old Abigail lives a cosseted, if rather lonely, life as a plantation owner’s daughter in the Caribbean. Secretly, her best friend ...Read Review

The Lodger

By Helen Scarlett - Published 2023

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London in the hot summer of 1919. Grace Armstrong is still struggling in the depths of bereavement following the death of her fiancé, Robert ...Read Review

The House of Whispers

By Anna Mazzola - Published 2023

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Rome 1938. From the first time she meets Dante Cavallera, piano teacher Eva Valenti is fascinated by the good-looking widower, father of her newest ...Read Review

The Hidden Life of Aster Kelly

By Katherine A. Sherbrooke - Published 2023

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Model and aspiring fashion designer Aster Kelly takes on an enviable job—being Lauren Bacall’s stand-in for designer-to-the-stars Fernando Tivoli. While learning ...Read Review