HNR Issue 66 (November 2013)

Cross my Heart

By Carmen Reid - Published 2013

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

A tragic adventure story set in WW2 Belgium, Cross my Heart follows Nicole, who at fifteen joins the Resistance. In a time of ...Read Review

Miss Anne in Harlem: The White Women of the Black Renaissance

By Carla Kaplan - Published 2013

Genres:

Nonfiction

The “passing” of white women into the artistic, musical, literary, sexual and social world of Harlem during the Black Renaissance of the 1920s ...Read Review

Morning Glory

By Sarah Jio - Published 2013

Genres:

Mystery/CrimeRomance

After her divorce, Ada Santorini needs a big change in her life, so she impulsively moves across the country to live in a ...Read Review

Death Rides the Zephyr

By Janet Dawson - Published 2013

Genres:

December 1952. Jill McLeod is a Zephyrette, a stewardess on the California Zephyr (CZ), which is making its Christmas run from California to Colorado. ...Read Review

Rising Sun, Falling Shadow

By Daniel Kalla - Published 2013

Genres:

Saga

This novel is the sequel to The Far Side of the Sky and is set in Shanghai in 1943. Things are looking bad for ...Read Review

The Gilded Edge

By Danny Miller - Published 2013

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

When white, upper-class Johnny Beresford is found dead in Belgravia and a black nurse-come-prostitute Marcy Jones is bludgeoned to death in Notting Hill ...Read Review

The Grammarian

By Annapurna Potluri - Published 2013

Genres:

Literary

This spellbinding novel is set in colonial India of 1911. It tells the story of Alexandre Lautens, a young French linguist from the Sorbonne, ...Read Review

The Russian Tapestry

By Banafsheh Serov - Published 2013

Genres:

Marie Kulbas belongs to a family that is enlightened enough to allow her to study law, but like all young women from the ...Read Review

The Final Sacrament

By James Forrester - Published 2013

Genres:

AdventureThriller

William Harley, Clarenceux, is Queen Elizabeth’s chief herald – and a Catholic. Though he serves his queen loyally, he hides a secret: a ...Read Review

The Convenient Marriage

By Georgette Heyer - Published 2013 (c 1934)

Genres:

Romance

Not Regency but the 1770s; revolution in the air has not penetrated the world of scented boudoirs. The ton follows a trend of ...Read Review