HNR Issue 106 (November 2023)
Columba’s Bones: Darkland Tales (UK) / The Book of I (US)
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Iona, 825 AD, and a gang of Vikings raids a Celtic monastery. In one brutal day, a multitude of characters is reduced to three ...Read Review
Rosie Raja: Mission to Cairo
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September 1941, and Rosie Raja and her father visit a WAAF training school in England. The drive there has been, she surmises, an excuse ...Read Review
The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary
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While browsing the Oxford University Press archives, academic Sarah Ogilvie came across the hitherto unknown black notebook of James Murray. Murray was the ...Read Review
Death and the Sisters (A Mary Shelley Mystery)
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Sixteen-year-old Mary, the daughter of famed authors Mary Wollstonecraft and William Godwin, is a natural storyteller with a vivid imagination but feels her ...Read Review
The Butterfly Collector
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1922 Sydney. Verity Binks wants to be a reporter like her father and grandfather, but with soldiers coming home from the Great War, she ...Read Review
The Voice Upstairs
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Children/Young AdultMystery/Crime
In 1920 England, Wilhelmina “Wil” Price’s deathsense—her ability to sense a person’s death hours to days before it happens—has made ...Read Review
A Writer’s Guide to Nineteenth-Century Murder by Arsenic (A Curiosity of Crime)
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Intended as a writers’ guide, this book explores the methods and implications of arsenic poisoning in the 19th century. Cathers sifts out the ...Read Review
Murder on the Celtic (Ocean Liner Mysteries, 8)
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1910. Here we are for the eighth episode for the ocean detectives George Porter Dillman and his wife Genevieve, known professionally by her original ...Read Review
The Baker’s Sister
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Leeds, 1898. After three years of hard work, Meg Fairfax has finally saved enough money to buy her beloved bakery. Her fiancé Frankie is ...Read Review
The Two-Tailed Snake (Fairlight Moderns, 17)
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The effect of war and civil, political and religious unrest on the experiences of children and adolescents continues as a never-ending source of ...Read Review
