HNR Issue 110 (November 2024)
The Venetian Daughter (Daughters of Italy)
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1943 Tuscany, Italy. Forty-three-year-old contessa Evelina is running her Villa Rosa farm estate singlehandedly. Her husband has died, and her two grown-up sons have ...Read Review
The Dictionary People
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A lexicographer moving on to a new post abroad revisits favourite locations in Oxford. Included in this was a visit to the archives ...Read Review
The Vow
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The Vow is a fictionalized autobiography of Angelica Kauffman, a Neoclassical artist who carved out a successful career as a portraitist and history ...Read Review
Menace At Pemberley (The Elizabeth Bennet Series)
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Elizabeth Bennet from Pride and Prejudice is now Mrs. Darcy in this well-imagined continuation of the classic novel. Elizabeth is just settling into ...Read Review
The Keys of Hell and Death
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Cordell’s sequel to God’s Vindictive Wrath, part of the Divided Kingdom series, is set during the English Civil War and explores ...Read Review
Eleanore of Avignon
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The Provençal city of Avignon in 1347-48 is rife with tension and drama, with the Catholic popes in residence, Queen Joanna of ...Read Review
Bridge Across the Sky
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In 1924, Tai Go, a teenaged boy from China, has reluctantly obeyed his father and boarded a ship to “Gold Mountain”—the United States. ...Read Review
Through the Mist
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In this carefully researched and convincing novel, Ashford seamlessly weaves fact and fiction into a satisfying gothic read. In the aftermath of WWII, ...Read Review
The Night in Venice
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More usually known as novelist Andrew Martin, the author has written an utterly beguiling story set in Edwardian England and Venice. It is 1911, ...Read Review
The Last Song of Penelope (The Songs of Penelope)
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In the third and final part of the Songs of Penelope series, Claire North takes us to the Greek island of Ithaca for ...Read Review
