HNR Issue 110 (November 2024)
The Improvisers
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Set in 1931 during Prohibition, this third in the Murder and Magic series boasts a unique fantasy world where magically charmed curios are highly ...Read Review
Cleopatra & Julius
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Cleopatra is best-known for her relationship with Mark Antony because that love affair has taken centre-stage in representations such as Shakespeare’s play ...Read Review
Hill of Secrets
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This extremely absorbing story is set in Los Alamos, New Mexico, when the secret project to develop the atomic bomb was going forward. ...Read Review
The Donoghue Girl
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In a small mining town in Northern Ontario, it’s the late 1930s. The Donoghues, with their general store, are one of the ...Read Review
A Wolff in the Family
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Curious about the title of the work? I was as well. It’s aptly named; there is something devious plaguing the Wolff family. ...Read Review
The Map of Bones (The Joubert Family Chronicles)
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This is the final book in Kate Mosse’s four-book series The Joubert Family Chronicles, following the fate of a wealthy French Huguenot ...Read Review
The Children Left Behind (Liverpool Orphans Trilogy)
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In the second part of the Liverpool Orphans series set in 1950, Eliza Morton provides a gritty, true-to-life picture of post-war Liverpool where houses ...Read Review
Operation Tulip (WW2 Secret Agent Series)
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This is the final book in Swift’s trilogy (The Silk Code, The Shadow Network) detailing the wartime exploits of British agent Nancy ...Read Review
Comanche Is Not My Name
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Novels with animal narrators present numerous problems, not least of which is the need to use human language to convey the creature’s ...Read Review
Holmes and Moriarty
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December 1889. Sherlock Holmes and his friend Dr Watson are intrigued when fledgling actor George Reynolds approaches them with the strange story that his ...Read Review
