HNR Issue 112 (May 2025)
The Moonlit Maze
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1924, Yorkshire, England. A young woman in a glittering ballgown walks in the grounds of a very stately home: Kearsley Castle. She enters the ...Read Review
Hidden Treasure
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London, 1918. This is, mostly, the story of Bo Delafort, aged 12 and a mudlark on the south side of the Thames foreshore. She comes ...Read Review
The Darkening Globe
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In 1597 Lady Beatrice Radclyffe awaits eagerly the return of her sea captain husband, Sir Hugh, who has been off on another adventure discovering ...Read Review
The Mandeville Curse (A Mandeville Mystery, Book 4)
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The fourth book in Callie Langridge’s series of mysteries is set in the late 1930s as Europe is dealing with increasing unrest. ...Read Review
Upon the Corner of the Moon: A Tale of the Macbeths
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In 11th-century Alba (Scotland), young Gruach, the future Lady Macbeth, is sent away from her family to apprentice with a Pict healer. Five-year-old ...Read Review
The Queen’s Spade
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This potboiler of a tale of a kidnapped Yoruban princess turned vengeful assassin is, according to the author’s afterword, “very loosely” based ...Read Review
Blitz: One Family’s War
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Another beautifully illustrated picture book by Martin Impey (he illustrated Hilary Robinson’s Where the Poppies Now Grow), who is here also as ...Read Review
The Angel Player (Tales From The Middle Ages)
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In 1349, when the Black Death is rife, Will Hunter is the youngest member of a touring group of theatre players. When they save ...Read Review
Fifteen Wild Decembers
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The six Brontë children – Maria, Elizabeth, Charlotte, Branwell, Emily, Anne – all died young, leaving their father alone in his final years; their mother ...Read Review
A Death on Corfu (A Minnie Harper Mystery)
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Widow Minnie Harper, an Englishwoman, is raising her two children on Corfu following the death of her husband many years before. Money is ...Read Review
