HNR Issue 104 (May 2023)
After Sappho
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As suggested by the title, After Sappho is a thoughtful novel of feminism, art, and sexuality. Taking place largely in Italy and France ...Read Review
Yesterday’s Tides
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In May 1942, a wounded man washes ashore on Ocracoke, an island in the Outer Banks of North Carolina. Evie Farrow lets him recuperate ...Read Review
The Seeing Garden
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For a person born with the feel and “seeing” of art, the expectations of a determined, upwardly mobile family in 1910 crush the spirit. ...Read Review
Murder Under a Red Moon (Bangalore Detectives Club)
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Even with a devoted husband and a police captain ally, establishing yourself as an amateur detective in 1921 South India isn’t easy when ...Read Review
Memoirs of Spurius
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The author takes the considerable narrative skills he’s developed in his tales of the American West and shines them on the Roman ...Read Review
A Secret Garden Affair
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Suffolk, 1981: whilst the entire country seems gripped by Royal Wedding fever, Libby, the heroine of James’s 25th novel, wants to get as ...Read Review
So Close to Heaven
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This powerful novel tells the little-known story of Sister Magdalena, the cellarin of Sabiona Abbey, in the Austrian Tyrol. It is a place ...Read Review
Maddalena and the Dark
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In 1717 Venice, two girls, Maddalena and Luisa, secretly share a bed at the Ospedale della Pietà, home for foundlings and music school for ...Read Review
The Three Deaths of Giovanni Fumiani
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After an awkward start, this investigation of a 1706 “accidental” death develops into a true page-turner. Stefano Bigio, through no fault of his own, ...Read Review
Henry VIII: The Heart and the Crown (UK) / The King’s Pleasure: A Novel of Henry VIII (US)
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Alison Weir has already told this famous story from the viewpoint of each of the six wives of Henry VIII. Now here is ...Read Review
