HNR Issue 77 (August 2016)

The Guardian Stones

By Eric Reed - Published 2016

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

In 1941, young English children are being evacuated to a town in the Shropshire countryside. It was believed they would be safe there from ...Read Review

The Gustav Sonata

By Rose Tremain - Published 2016

Genres:

Literary

Switzerland in the years just after the end of the Second World War. Gustav Perle is a young boy living a bleak and ...Read Review

Ashes of Fiery Weather

By Kathleen Donohoe - Published 2016

Genres:

Saga

The men of Brooklyn’s Keegan-O’Reilly clan have been firefighters for as long as anyone can remember. They fight fires: some die ...Read Review

Sudden Death

By Alvaro Enrigue - By Natasha Wimmer (trans.) - Published 2016

Genres:

Historical FantasyLiterary

This is a novel which is gloriously and provocatively impossible to classify. If the author did not himself refer to it as a ...Read Review

Racing the Moon

By Michelle Morgan - Published 2015

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

It’s 1931 and Joe Riley, ‘on the wrong side of thirteen’, lives in Sydney, Australia. It’s the Depression, and Joe has a ...Read Review

The Gospel of the Twin

By Ron Cooper - Published 2016

Genres:

Author Ron Cooper spent years conducting intense research into the historical, philosophical, theological, scriptural and non-scriptural aspects of Christianity and other world religions. ...Read Review

Conspiracy

By Iain Gale - Published 2016

Genres:

Adventure

1812.Super spy James Keane is entrusted with a secret mission to go undercover in Bonaparte’s France to encourage and enable the destruction ...Read Review

Ophelia’s War: The Secret Story of a Mormon Turned Madam

By Alison L. McLennan - Published 2016

Genres:

Western

Ophelia’s War tells the riveting life story of Ophelia Oatman, an orphaned Mormon girl coming of age and fighting for physical and ...Read Review

The Mechanic

By Alan Gold - Published 2016

Genres:

This novel, which spans over 50 years, from World War II to 1998, depicts the devastating effects of the Jewish Holocaust and Nuremberg trials, and ...Read Review

Max Baer and the Star of David

By Jay Neugeboren - Published 2016

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

This short novel employs the literary artifice of a fictional eyewitness account, ostensibly to tell Max Baer’s story from 1929 until his death, ...Read Review