HNR Issue 111 (February 2025)
Historical Novels Review, Issue 111 (February 2025)
The Antidote
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Fans of Barbara Kingsolver’s Demon Copperhead will want to grab this gorgeous magical-realist novel set on the Nebraska prairie during the height ...Read Review
The Ballad of Mary Kearney
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Ireland, 1765. When young Mary Kearney is sent to work at Goward Hall, she joins her brother and sister in service and lightens the ...Read Review
Murder at Gulls Nest
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This is the best written historical murder mystery I have read this year. The first in the Nora Breen Investigates series, it is ...Read Review
The Players
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In June 1685, Charles II’s illegitimate son, the Duke of Monmouth, arrived on the south coast of England to lay claim to the ...Read Review
The New Internationals
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The turbulent economic and political maelstrom of Paris in 1947 serves as an apt setting for this character-driven novel of young people from different ...Read Review
Munichs
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Germany, February 6th, 1958. Having refuelled at Munich airport on its journey from Serbia to England, a British charter flight crashes on take-off in ...Read Review
An Orphan’s Hope (Battersea Tavern)
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This is the fourth book in the Battersea Tavern series, which up until now has been set during the Second World War in ...Read Review
The Dark King Swallows the World
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In this beautifully crafted fantasy thriller, twelve-year-old Nora returns from America to join the household where her mother has taken refuge from the ...Read Review
The Legend of Meneka (The Divine Dancers Duology, 1)
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Fans of the current enthusiasm over romantasy novels will be thrilled to find this rich and expansive epic set in the world of ...Read Review
Misery Hates Company
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In Boston in 1894, feisty twenty-one-year-old Marigold Manners’ parents have just died from influenza. She learns that due to her father’s debts, she ...Read Review
