HNR Issue 104 (May 2023)
The Midnight News
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The author of the internationally best-selling Longbourn returns with a new novel that is so much more than the love and war story ...Read Review
Of White Ashes
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Inspired by true events in the authors’ family, Of White Ashes tells the story of Ruby, a 4th grader in Hawaii, and Koji, ...Read Review
Red Clay Ashes
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In 2005 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, young Bee’s mother, Hazel, dies. Hazel was a reporter in Vietnam during the war. Among Hazel’s books, Bee ...Read Review
Justice Delayed, Justice Denied (A Ming Dynasty Mystery)
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Late 14th-century Ming China is a rigidly stratified society where even the marginalised are organised and subsumed into the greater whole. Family loyalty, ...Read Review
In the Shadow of a Queen
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Biographical FictionInspirational Romance
From her thirteenth birthday in 1861 to her marriage in 1871, Moore’s biographical novel traces the coming of age of Princess Louise, sixth child ...Read Review
The Woman on the Bridge
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Dublin, Ireland, 1920: a stone crashes through the window of the shop where Winnie O’Leary works. Terror grips the poor girl as she ...Read Review
A Shadow in Moscow
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In late 1944 in Nazi-occupied Vienna, Ingrid loses her Austrian father and English mother to the occupiers when they determine the couple isn’t ...Read Review
The Witches of Vardo
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In 1662, Anna Rhodius, former mistress of the King of Denmark, is exiled to Vardøhus prison on Vardø island in northeastern Norway. Shortly ...Read Review
The Empress’ Gift
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In 1763, Catherine the Great of Russia invited peasants and tradesmen of Europe to settle the Volga Frontier, offering to pay for transport, food, ...Read Review
The Viscount Who Vexed Me (A Royal Match, 3)
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Hattie Woodchurch is nobody. In the eyes of polite society, that is. And her family is a disaster. Thus she is delighted to ...Read Review