HNR Issue 104 (May 2023)

The Unassuming Curator

By Sian Ann Bessey - Published 2023

Genres:

Inspirational Romance

1790. This Georgian romance pairs Henry Buckland, a naturalist at the British Museum, with Emily Norton, sister of Lord Dunsbourne, who would rather commune ...Read Review

The Dark that Doesn’t Sleep

By Simon Mockler - Published 2023

Genres:

Thriller

The Dark That Doesn’t Sleep is a taut, psychological military and spy thriller set in 1967. Jack Miller, a psychoanalyst with a New ...Read Review

The London Séance Society

By Sarah Penner - Published 2023

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

In 1873, the London Séance Society is a gentlemen’s-only club whose president’s murder during an All Hallows Eve soiree has been ...Read Review

What Dreams May Come

By Dana LeCheminant - Published 2023

Genres:

Inspirational Romance

Lucy Hayes is a governess fleeing the unwanted attentions of her employer’s brother, Mr. Granger, when foul weather stops the coach at ...Read Review

The Queen of Hel

By Johanna Wittenberg - Published 2023

Genres:

EpicSaga

The Nordic saga The Queen of Hel (Book 5 of The Norsewomen) continues the mythological adventures of historical figures and legends from Norway and ...Read Review

The Last Lifeboat

By Hazel Gaynor - Published 2023

Genres:

Alice King wants to do something significant to support Great Britain during World War II. Something more than being a librarian, even though ...Read Review

Fragments of a Woman

By Emma Venables - Published 2023

Genres:

Keen to give a voice to human beings beyond history’s dates and events, and to go further than accepted tropes, author Emma ...Read Review

Swan Light

By Phoebe Rowe - Published 2023

Genres:

Silvestre Swan has been the keeper of the lighthouse at Norman Cliffs, Newfoundland, since it was erected in 1849. In 1913, at age 83, he is ...Read Review

A Different Kind of Freedom: A Romani Story (Voices #7)

By Richard O’Neill - Published 2023

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

The latest book in the Voices series, introducing diverse viewpoints into children’s publishing, tells the story of a Romani boy with a ...Read Review

April’s Breeze

By Gary Entwistle - Published 2022

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

In April 1775, a young doctor, Samuel Prescott from Concord, Massachusetts, finds himself unexpectedly drawn into an alarm being spread and becomes a key ...Read Review