HNR Issue 116 (May 2026)
The Walls Are Closing In On Us
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George is a young half-Choctaw man trapped within walls he doesn’t even know exist. He cannot escape them any more than he ...Read Review
The Magnificent Lies of Madeleine Béjart
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Madeleine Béjart is a magnificent character, at once larger than life and beset by the problems of everywoman: love, loss, and the ...Read Review
A Fortune of Sand
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One expects some level of eccentricity from the ultra-wealthy, yet Marjorie Lennox’s family sits in a class by itself. In 1927, at their ...Read Review
A Perfect Hand
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Alice Lockey prides herself as a lady’s maid to Lady Jemima. Lady Jemima is frivolous and vain, indolent and quarrelsome, and very ...Read Review
Land
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It is 1865, and Ireland has come through the Great Famine. The land still manifests the trauma and scars – cottages in ruins, millions dead ...Read Review
In The Fields of Fatherless Children
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Appalachia, 1960s. June is pregnant and sixteen, and that is just the beginning of her problems. The young man she loves, Ellis, is ...Read Review
Inferno (The Nero Trilogy)
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The final chapter of Iggulden’s Nero trilogy provides a fittingly poignant conclusion to the story of one of Rome’s most hated ...Read Review
Mrs Pearcey
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In 1890, a double killing of a woman and her baby in Hampstead, north London, was so brutal it was initially suspected to be ...Read Review
Last Days in Moav
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Milcah and Gidon possess a supernatural gift for healing, though some people in their tribe whisper that the twins use magic or the ...Read Review
The Harbour Master’s Secret
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Jacques Dumont has lived an eventful life. After a youth spent in the Belgian Congo, where he both finds and loses love, Jacques ...Read Review
