HNR Issue 66 (November 2013)
A Horse Called Hero
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1940. World War II is raging. Dodo, and her nine-year-old horse-mad brother, Wolfie, live in London, a dangerous place during the Blitz. When their ...Read Review
Meeting Cezanne
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In this charming little book, British Children’s Laureate Michael Morpurgo tells the story of Yannick, a young Parisian boy who is sent ...Read Review
My Friend the Enemy
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1941, a village in North-East England. German warplanes frequently drop superfluous incendiary bombs after bombing Newcastle shipyards. Peter, aged twelve, playing in the woods, ...Read Review
The Inheritor’s Powder: A Cautionary Tale of Poison, Betrayal and Greed
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In 1833, in the village of Plumstead, elderly George Bodle, along with all those in his household, falls ill immediately after breakfast. While others ...Read Review
The Elixir of Immortality
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Ari Spinoza, the last surviving member of his family, is dying. Childless and at the end of his family’s long line of ...Read Review
Steel Blues
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In Steel Blues, the second in the Order of the Air Series, Melissa Scott and Jo Graham tell the gripping story of the ...Read Review
Tapestry
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Jean-Louis St-Cyr and Hermann Kohler make up the intriguing duo of detectives fighting everyday crime in Paris during the German occupation. Brutal assaults ...Read Review
Dandy Gilver and a Deadly Measure of Brimstone
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Dandy, the eponymous heroine, is one half of an unusual detective pairing. Together with her partner Alec Osborne, she is asked to investigate ...Read Review
Quiet Dell
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The real-life murders perpetrated in the small West Virginian town of Quiet Dell are lovingly coaxed to life by Jayne Anne Phillips. The ...Read Review
The Sleep Room
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Readers of Frank Tallis’ Max Liebermann mystery series can rest assured that Tallis is just as good a writer when he’s not ...Read Review
