HNR Issue 104 (May 2023)
Fifth Avenue Glamour Girl
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New York City and its fashionable department store Saks Fifth Avenue is the setting for Fifth Avenue Glamour Girl. A chance encounter at ...Read Review
Daughters of Victory
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Russia, 1917, and the USSR, 1940s: Svetlana Vasilyevna Petrova defies her aristocratic family and joins the Russian Revolution, becoming a member of the Socialist ...Read Review
Ana María and The Fox (The Luna Sisters)
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Mexican heiress Ana María and her two sisters, Isabel and Gabriela, flee the second French occupation of Mexico by sailing to London. ...Read Review
The Cuban Heiress
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In 1934 the luxurious ocean liner, the Morro Castle, begins a voyage from New York to Havana and back again. American heiress Catherine Donan ...Read Review
The Lost Year: A Survival Story of the Ukrainian Famine
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This dual-timeline narrative begins in 2020 with 12-year-old Matthew, homebound because of Covid lockdowns and separated from his journalist father posted to Europe. Because ...Read Review
The Agency for Scandal
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If you fancy a rip-roaring YA adventure, look no further than this novel which features feisty Victorian heroine Isobel Stanhope. She’s leading ...Read Review
After the Shadows (Secrets of Sweetwater Crossing)
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After the Shadows is a captivating historical romance set in 1882 in the Hill Country of Texas. Emily Leland, a widow, returns to her ...Read Review
The Castle Keepers
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The castle: Leedswick Castle in Northbridge, England, a fortress with crumbling stones and overgrown gardens in 1870, paint-chipped walls and dusty windows in 1917, and ...Read Review
Listen
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Atlas, Oklahoma, 1930s. During the Great Depression, with no other jobs in sight, Liam begins working for the Federal Writers’ Project. He will ...Read Review
Vita and the Birds
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Vita and the Birds shifts between 1938 and 1997 and follows two women – Lady Vita Goldsborough and Eve Blakeney – as they each attempt to cope ...Read Review