HNR Issue 110 (November 2024)

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

Shy Creatures

By Clare Chambers - Published 2024

Genres:

LiteraryMystery/Crime

Set in a 1960s London psychiatric hospital, Shy Creatures is the story of Helen, a thirty-something unmarried art therapist who becomes involved in ...Read Review

The Paris Peacemakers

By Flora Johnston - Published 2024

Genres:

Saga

Europe in 1919 is trying to heal, and so are two sisters, Corran and Stella. What does Corran’s specialty, the Greek and Latin ...Read Review

The Paris Gown

By Christine Wells - Published 2024

Genres:

Australian author Wells takes the reader on a sojourn to 1950s Paris, from Saint-Germain to Maison Dior. Three young women, who first met ...Read Review

They Call Me Teach: Lessons in Freedom

By James E. Ransome (illus.) - By Lesa Cline-Ransome - Published 2024

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

From the very first page of James E. Ransome’s art, I was smitten with this story. Lesa Cline-Ransome has written a lyrical—...Read Review

Her Own War (Château de Verzat)

By Debra Borchert - Published 2024

Genres:

Saga

This is the third novel in Borchert’s Château de Verzat series, set in a beautiful château and vineyard in the ...Read Review

Murder of a Suffragette (London Ladies’ Murder Club Book 4)

By Marty Wingate - Published 2024

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

In Sussex, 1922, the inimitable Mabel Canning of the Useful Women Agency is employed as private secretary to Lady Emma Fellbridge, hostess to a ...Read Review

Dead Ground (Spoils of War, 9)

By Graham Hurley - Published 2024

Genres:

Thriller

Graham Hurley can be relied upon to write a good thriller.  Dead Ground is the ninth of his The Spoils of War novels ...Read Review

The Genizah

By Wayne Karlin - Published 2024

Genres:

Literary

In 1941, the extended family of Karlin’s mother were murdered by the Nazis in her hometown of Kolno, Poland. In modern day America, ...Read Review

Daughter of Strangers

By Maybelle Wallis - Published 2024

Genres:

Saga

Manhattan, 1854: Whilst most of the third volume of Wallis’s Doughty trilogy is set in New York, it opens five years earlier with ...Read Review