HNR Issue 110 (November 2024)

The Suspension Bridge

By Anna Dowdall - Published 2024

Genres:

Literary

In 1962, twenty-nine-year-old nun, Sister Harriet, an upper-year science teacher, is transferred to the upscale Saint Reginald’s Academy in Bothonville, a Canadian river ...Read Review

Yoruba Boy Running

By Biyi Bándélé - Published 2024

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

Essentially, this is the story of Samuel Àjàyí Crowther, the first African Bishop in West Africa, but it doesn’t follow any ...Read Review

The Shadow of an Artist

By George Owen - Published 2024

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

The Shadow of an Artist portrays the life of French modernist painter Édouard Manet, told from the perspective of his friend, Julian Mercier. ...Read Review

Hemlock Bay (Rachel Savernake)

By Martin Edwards - Published 2024

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Martin Edwards writes ‘Golden Age’ detective novels set in the 1930s and as far as possible written as if we were still in ...Read Review

Ain’t No Grave

By Mary Glickman - Published 2024

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Based on an infamous episode from Georgia history as experienced by two childhood friends, Ain’t No Grave paints a unique picture of ...Read Review

The Memory Keeper

By Corin Burnside - Published 2024

Genres:

Saga

2014: Stupefaction supersedes triumph for archaeologist Jennifer Dawson as her team recovers a submerged WWII Spitfire from Romney Marsh: her trowel drags, ominously, on ...Read Review

Women’s Hotel

By Daniel M Lavery - Published 2024

Genres:

You might think as you begin reading that you have in your hands a Wodehousian comedy of manners, but you soon realize you ...Read Review

The Knight’s Redemption (The Swords of the White Rose series, 3)

By Ethan Bale - Published 2024

Genres:

Adventure

The concluding story of the fictional Sir John Hawker as he fights his way through 15th-century Europe. This final book in The Swords ...Read Review

Pride and Perjury

By Alice McVeigh - Published 2024

Genres:

It is a truth universally acknowledged that Jane Austen fans might secretly wish for undiscovered chapters in the lives and courtships of her ...Read Review

We Are the Beasts

By Gigi Griffis - Published 2024

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Mid-18th century France: sixteen-year-old Joséphine is the only survivor of her family after a fever swept through the village. Now she ...Read Review