HNR Issue 67 (February 2014)
The Invention of Wings
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Sue Monk Kidd’s (The Secret Life of Bees) latest novel begins in early 19th- century Charleston, South Carolina, and follows the story ...Read Review
Rustication
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Rustication (n): the state of having been sent down (i.e., suspended) from university; alternately, a sojourn in the country. Both are the ...Read Review
The Hull Home Fire
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The title of this book gave me the impression that the story would focus on the tragic fire that swept through Hull Home, ...Read Review
Operation Kingfisher
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Operation Kingfisher was an escape line organised by the French Resistance in WW2 to smuggle downed Allied airmen to Spain via the French ...Read Review
The Wife, the Maid, and the Mistress
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The Jazz Age. Bootleggers. Gangsters. Corruption. Crime. Tammany Hall. All these ingredients have been used in novels many times, but Ariel Lawhon takes ...Read Review
The Late Scholar
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Peter Wimsey, now Duke of Denver, learns that one of the responsibilities that goes with his title is to adjudicate, as Visitor, over ...Read Review
At Break of Day
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Ho-hum, thinks the reader – yet another novel about the Great War. Misgivings increase when the story, starting on the morning of 1st July 1916 ...Read Review
Archangel
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The short stories in Archangel, set between the late 19th century and the start of World War II, illuminate human connections in scientific ...Read Review
Glamour in Glass
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Newly married glamourists Jane and David Vincent have just completed their most prestigious commission yet for the Prince Regent. But Jane is hurt ...Read Review
Rachel’s Promise
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This is a wrenching story of a Russian-Jewish family fleeing the pogroms of the early 20th century, the second novel in a planned ...Read Review