HNR Issue 105 (August 2023)
The Ghost Theatre
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In a fantastical yet mostly recognizable Elizabethan London, teenage Shay, a member of a bird-worshipping religion, joins up with a troupe of boy ...Read Review
Come See the Fair
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1893: Twelve-year-old Eva Root passes herself off as a medium under the watchful eye of Mrs. Blodgett, telling grieving relatives what she believes they ...Read Review
The Burning Land (The Overstreet Saga)
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Henry Overstreet and Katie Nash fall in love in the small town of Waldoboro, Maine, during the American Civil War. When Henry decides ...Read Review
Beneath the Darkening Clouds (The Irish Fortune Series Book 2)
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In 1845 Ireland, Quin and Alannah have dealt with loss and heartache and have overcome difficulties in order to be together, but then the ...Read Review
A History of Burning
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The history of Indians who lived in East Africa may be little known, but there are still many alive today who were sent ...Read Review
The Duke Gets Desperate (Sirens in Silk, 1)
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Yorkshire, 1886. As if it were not bad enough to inherit an impoverished estate, Anthony Carey, Duke of Strickland, is stunned to learn that ...Read Review
The World in a Sandbag
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Knowledge of the military history of the British army during the First World War and the part played in it by Irish battalions ...Read Review
The Beasts of Paris
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Stef Penney chose a setting that has not often been mined by authors of historical fiction: the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 and the Commune ...Read Review
Fair Rosaline
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Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet hints at Romeo’s involvement with Rosaline before Juliet. But were there others? This is addressed in Solomons’ ...Read Review
The Dissident
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On his wedding day in Moscow in January 1976, Viktor Moroz realizes no one at the ceremony actually knows how to perform the Jewish ...Read Review
