HNR Issue 69 (August 2014)
The Two Hotel Francforts
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Leavitt’s most recent success (after The Lost Language of Cranes, 2011) takes readers to Lisbon early in World War II. In a way, ...Read Review
Kingdom Lock
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In 1914 it is recognised that future wars will be won or lost by black gold; keeping the oil pipelines free of sabotage is ...Read Review
Darkling
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Mia Morgan is researching the life of Lady Brilliana Harley, 17th-century Puritan and now known mostly for the letters she wrote to her ...Read Review
Immortal Muse
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This is an ambitious book with a fascinating theme and a wide-ranging cast of characters. It starts in the present, with every other ...Read Review
Brave
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Wendy Constance’s Brave was the winner of The Times/Chicken House prize, 2013, for an unpublished new children’s author. It is the ...Read Review
War Song
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War Song pictures working-class life in Portsmouth and nursing in France during WW1. Twin sisters, Dorothy and Florence, together with Mum and eight ...Read Review
Lincoln’s Bishop: A President, a Priest, and the Fate of 300 Dakota Sioux Warriors
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As the Civil War raged in the United States in 1862, another war raged in Minnesota – an uprising by the Dakota Sioux that killed ...Read Review
To Charm a Naughty Countess
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In 1819, Michael Laywood, the Duke of Wyverne, realizes he has to throw in the towel and leave his beloved Lancashire for the teeming ...Read Review
Field of Shadows: The Remarkable True Story of the English Cricket Tour of Nazi Germany 1937
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In 1937 an amateur cricket club from Worcestershire undertook a tour of Berlin to play three matches against German cricket clubs. With Germany at ...Read Review
The Last Queen of Sheba
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When the ruling council controlling Sheba can’t decide who to appoint as the new queen, Tamrin, a wealthy and itinerant merchant, is ...Read Review