HNR Issue 79 (February 2017)
Wild Wicked Scot
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This novel’s title reveals its genre. A rough-around-the-edges Scottish laird marries a delicate English lady at the time of the Jacobite Rebellion. ...Read Review
A Treacherous Coast
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Our hero, John Pearce, is in the tradition of Sharpe and many other 19th-century military heroes: he has risen from the ranks by ...Read Review
Death Comes to the Fair
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Catherine Lloyd’s Death Comes to the Fair is a pseudo-historical detective story, a sort of ‘village Agatha Christie in costume.’ Bland and ...Read Review
The Woman Who Breathed Two Worlds
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In 1878 in a small Malay village, little Chye Hoon, a Nyonya (Malaysian of Chinese descent), is visiting a temple. Chye tries to shake ...Read Review
The Scent of Lilacs
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During the last days of Berlin, 1945, we follow five different people, each with different loyalties and different roles in this tense story: Tanya, ...Read Review
Sleeping Above Chaos
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Ann Hite’s fourth Black Mountain novel is one fine read. It takes place before, during and after WWII, and Hite addresses issues ...Read Review
In Our Time
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The living conditions in the Cherokee Nation are difficult for the Adair family during the summer of 1916. The future holds little hope for ...Read Review
Under the Udala Trees
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This novel is a gorgeously written homage to love set against the background of Nigeria during a time of civil unrest in the ...Read Review
The Award
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On New Year’s Day in contemporary Paris, a Frenchwoman combs through pages of Le Figaro to find the name of her 95-year-old ...Read Review
The Lost Book of the Grail
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Arthur Prescott’s life follows highly predictable rhythms: some irritating, some stimulating, some soothing. A junior lecturer at Barchester (yes, that Barchester) University, ...Read Review