HNR Issue 66 (November 2013)
Cross my Heart
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
