HNR Issue 110 (November 2024)
We Are the Beasts
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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
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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
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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