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HNR Issue 110 (November 2024)

The Café on Manor Lane

By Amelia Kyazze - Published 2024

Genres:

Kyazze’s touching novel tells an intergenerational story of multicultural Britain through the eyes of three women. In 1952 Bella is a French Jew ...Read Review

The Ballad of Falling Rock

By Jordan Dotson - Published 2024

Genres:

Literary

Saul Crabtree may have sold his soul to the devil for a voice that brings anyone who hears it to tears, or the ...Read Review

When We Flew Away: A Novel of Anne Frank Before the Diary

By Alice Hoffman - Published 2024

Genres:

Biographical Fiction Children/Young Adult

The Frank family were German, but after Kristallnacht they fled to Amsterdam to escape the growing persecution of Jews in Germany. They believed ...Read Review

The Woman Who Went Over Niagara Falls in a Barrel (UK) / Queen of the Mist (US/CAN)

By Caroline Cauchi - Published 2024

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

This novel retells the true story of Annie Edson Taylor who, as a sixty-three-year-old debut ’stunter’, went over Niagara Falls in a pickle ...Read Review

Let These Things Be Written

By Fiona Whyte - Published 2024

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AD 675, Lindisfarne, a monastery on an island on the north-east coast of Britain. A seven-year-old child, Wilfrid, is sent as an ‘oblate’: a ...Read Review

Not Quite a Scandal (Audacious Ladies of Audley)

By Bliss Bennet - Published 2024

Genres:

Romance

The Regency romance world is chock full of aristocrats. What sets Not Quite a Scandal apart is its exploration of aristocratic expectations clashing ...Read Review

Vu

By Kenneth Sinclair - Published 2025

Genres:

Historical Fantasy Literary

To go back in time and tell 1001 stories to Scheherazade? What storyteller wouldn’t want that on his CV/resumé? Gabriel is time-travelled, ...Read Review

Murder at King’s Crossing (A Wrexford & Sloane Mystery)

By Andrea Penrose - Published 2024

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

This Wrexford and Sloane Regency mystery, eighth in the series, entangles the exhilarating family of the Earl of Wrexford and his (secret editorial ...Read Review

The French Winemaker’s Daughter

By Loretta Ellsworth - Published 2024

Genres:

Saga

In 1942 at a small Jewish family winery in France, seven-year-old Martine hides from the Nazis. A note pinned to her gives an aunt’...Read Review

The Fabled Earth

By Kimberly Brock - Published 2024

Genres:

Saga

In 1959, Frances Flood arrives on Georgia’s Cumberland Island at the behest of her recently deceased mother, Joanna Burton. She has lived her ...Read Review