HNR Issue 104 (May 2023)
An Orphan’s Wish (Blessed St Hilda’s Orphanage)
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Set in the north east of England, the novel begins at Christmas 1900, with Flo and Joshua Butler preparing for their usual solitary festive ...Read Review
The Gentleman in the Ash Tree (Allen Abbey Romances Book 1)
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When Eloise Blackburn discovers a stranger hiding in an ash tree, she is unconvinced that he really is the nephew of the neighboring ...Read Review
A Keeper of Tales (Grandmothers’ Footsteps Book 2)
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Oxford, 1885: in this second novel of Pemberton’s Grandmother’s Footsteps series, following on from A Teller of Tales, vicar’s daughter Harriet ...Read Review
Code Name Elodie (Bletchley Park Girls)
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Blending fiction with historical figures, Code Name Elodie follows directly from its prequel The Bletchley Girls, documenting the latter half of the war, ...Read Review
Viviana Valentine Goes Up the River (A Girl Friday Mystery)
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1950, New York: Viviana Valentine, partner to Tommy Fortuna, New York’s top private investigator, heads north to Tarrytown when wealthy scientist Buster Beacon ...Read Review
Foxash
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1934. Worn down by poverty, Lettie Radley arrives in Foxash, Essex, to join her out-of-work miner husband, Tommy. Their new smallholding may well be ...Read Review
Heart of the Nile (A Barker & Llewelyn Novel, 15)
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When Elizabeth Addison braves the frigid cold of Christmas in 1893 to seek out the Barker & Llewelyn Private Enquiry Agency, she is beside ...Read Review
A Noble Cunning
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When Jacobite leaders Mar, Winton, and Derwentwater arrive at the Glentaggart home, Bethan knows immediately that her husband, Gavin, a staunch Catholic, will ...Read Review
Out of Ireland
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1935 St. Louis is the setting for a brief prologue in which family matriarch Eileen lies dying, but the story turns quickly to 1867 Cork, ...Read Review
Keeper of the Queen’s Jewels: A Novel of Jane Seymour
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Henry VIII of England married Jane Seymour nine days after beheading Anne Boleyn. Not much is known of Jane except that she bore ...Read Review