HNR Issue 75 (February 2016)
Riot Most Uncouth
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Officially Lord Byron is a student at Trinity College in Cambridge, England, albeit one who never attends class and loves nothing more than ...Read Review
American Baroque
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In the summer of 1835, three strangers saunter into Mohawk, Indiana: an urchin, a scruffy schoolteacher and a scruffier, cheerfully inebriated preacher dressed in ...Read Review
Lemon Blossoms
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This dual point-of-view novel (told by Angelica and her mother) relates the story of Angelica Domenico, a 19th-century Italian girl who grows into ...Read Review
Murder on a Summer’s Day
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The 1920s amateur detective, revived in several recent mystery series, has another winner in WWI widow, Kate Shackleton. Kate, adopted from the slums ...Read Review
Smoke and Mirrors: A Stephens and Mephisto Mystery
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In this novel Detective Inspector Stephens and magician, Max Mephisto, who previously appeared in Elly Griffith’s novel The Zigzag Girl, become involved ...Read Review
Us Conductors
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Sean Michaels’ debut novel has already won Canada’s 2014 Scotiabank Giller prize and deservedly so. It is a fictionalised account of the life ...Read Review
Death in Florence
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Death in Florence is the fourth Inspector Bordelli novel, albeit my first exposure to the series. Set in 1966, we see a Florence recovering ...Read Review
The Forgotten Room
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This multi-generational novel, set between 1892 and 1944, is jointly written by three people, all bestselling authors (and good friends), but the smooth writing style ...Read Review
These Shallow Graves
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Children/Young AdultMystery/Crime
Set in Victorian New York, this story follows Jo Montfort as she longs to test the glittering restrictive world of her birth. As ...Read Review
In Search of Mary: The Mother of All Journeys
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Biographical FictionChildren/Young Adult
In Search of Mary is one of the most interesting books I’ve read all year. Journalist Bee Rowlatt follows 18th-century feminist Mary ...Read Review
