HNR Issue 70 (November 2014)
Radio Girl
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Cece is a fourteen-year-old with big dreams, especially for a girl living above a Newark, New Jersey hardware store in 1938 – she wants to ...Read Review
The Narrow Road to the Deep North
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“Why at the beginning… is there always light?” muses Dorrigo Evans, recalling, as a one-year-old in 1915, the sun flooding a church hall in ...Read Review
Saint Brigid’s Bones: A Celtic Adventure
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In this swiftly told tale set in 6th-century Ireland, Sister Deirdre is tasked with the most important job of the monastery at Kildare: ...Read Review
The Storyteller’s Granddaughter
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Set in 1336, and starting in Anatolia, The Storyteller’s Granddaughter tells the tale of 17-year-old Sophia, whose beloved herbalist grandmother had just died. ...Read Review
Pirate: Privateer
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This fourth installment of Tim Severin’s Pirate series finds Hector Lynch and his companions plundering a Spanish wreck. Having promised his wife, ...Read Review
The Torrid Zone
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War with France at the turn of the 19th century means conflict and intrigue on the high seas. HMS Scylla, led by Post ...Read Review
Loving Rose: The Redemption of Malcolm Sinclair
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Laurens is back on form with this light, bubbly romance set in Regency England. Malcolm Sinclair, pantomime baddy of previous Laurens books, is ...Read Review
The Dead Queen’s Garden
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This is the third in Slade’s Charlotte Richmond Investigates series, set in Hampshire, England, in 1858. Her previous books have been praised by ...Read Review
The Day without Yesterday
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The last of Clark’s Sky’s Dark Labyrinth trilogy turns its focus on the progress of physics and astronomy in the 1910s-1930...Read Review
The Hormone Factory
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Mordechai de Paauw—womanizer, cheat, and ruthless businessman—is a despicable man, yet the perfect narrator. The heir to a Dutch meatpacking family, ...Read Review