HNR Issue 105 (August 2023)
The Stolen Crown
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In 12th-century England, King Henry I has a problem. He has no male heir, just a daughter, Maud, and no one believes a ...Read Review
I, Julian: The Fictional Autobiography of Julian of Norwich
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This reimagining of the life of the anchoress and mystic Julian of Norwich is a triumph. Taking the few known facts, Gilbert creates ...Read Review
Our Hideous Progeny
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England and Scotland in the 1850s. Mary Elizabeth Sutherland is an ambitious and feisty natural history illustrator married to Henry, a rather combative ...Read Review
The Madwomen of Paris
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In this novel, set in a monolithic asylum in Paris in the late 1800s, protagonist Laure is both a former inmate and current ...Read Review
The Paris Deception
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During WW2, Paris was filled with German military forces. Some focused on more than warfare – they saw potential for personal profit from selling ...Read Review
Too Good to Hang (Bradecote & Catchpoll)
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This is the 11th in Hawkswood’s Bradecote & Catchpoll series, and there is something new in the mix. I have read several ...Read Review
The President’s Wife
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In 1915, Edith Galt, a wealthy widow living in Washington, DC, is introduced to Helen Bones, a cousin to President Woodrow Wilson, who is ...Read Review
Once Upon a Hillside
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A hill. A distinctive hill: a Down, with flower-spangled turf over white chalk, a stand of woods and a mound at its summit. ...Read Review
The Postcard
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After a postcard without a sender arrives at her mother’s house inscribed with the names of relatives who perished at Auschwitz, life ...Read Review
Toward the Corner of Mercy and Peace
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Widow Minerva Place is used to a quiet, orderly life, and she prefers it that way. She has little interest in idle chit-chat ...Read Review
