HNR Issue 104 (May 2023)
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
The Tiffany Girls
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At the end of the 19th century, Emilie Pascal is desperate to escape Paris because she fears the police are after her. Her ...Read Review
The Reluctant Baronet
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1811, England. Russell Parkinson, chemist and newly created baronet, despises London, although both he and his good friend hope he can use his knowledge ...Read Review
The Night Travelers
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Berlin, 1931. A young German poet, Ally, falls in love with a Black German musician, Marcus. They have a daughter, Lilith. To avoid hateful ...Read Review
The Radcliffe Ladies’ Reading Club
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This novel is set in 1955 Cambridge. Alice Campbell, dislocated divorcée, has opened a small bookstore and initiated a reading club with four ...Read Review
Isabelle
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Isabelle Wareham’s difficult relationship with her sister is exacerbated by the death of their father. The elder, Cornelia, already planning refurbishments to ...Read Review
Good Night, Irene
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Women traipsing through war-torn Europe dispensing coffee and donuts out of repurposed buses? The reader is creatively immersed in a little-known aspect of ...Read Review