HNR Issue 81 (August 2017)
The Master of Medicine
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In Cologne in 1395, Madlen Goldmann is living a quiet domestic existence with her husband, Johannes, an attorney who is counsel to the Archbishop, ...Read Review
Freebooter
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Navigator Hector Lynch is keen to give up a life of piracy and settle down with his pregnant wife, Maria, in the fabled ...Read Review
A Most Unlikely Duke: Diamonds in the Rough
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London, 1818. To survive in the slums of London and protect his two sisters, Raphe Matthews has worked on the docks and fought as ...Read Review
Corrib Red
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The second in a three-part series about the wealthy O’Donovan family, this novel takes place in 1880s Ireland and centers on 15-year-old ...Read Review
Fool’s Gold
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1841. Liberty Lane, now Mrs Robert Carmichael, is honeymooning on Cephalonia, when she and her husband meet an Englishman, Mr Vickery, who invites them ...Read Review
The Strays
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Lily is eight in 1930s Australia when she is befriended by Eva Trentham. The Trenthams (avant-garde artist and father Evan, mother Helena, older ...Read Review
Lenin’s Roller Coaster
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The title of this third Jack McColl spy thriller is an apt metaphor for what is to come: a dizzying ride through the ...Read Review
Across the China Sea
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“This is what the new world was like: Our own asylum, in the midst of a forest, in the midst of the parish, ...Read Review
The Ada Decades
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The “interconnected stories” on the book’s cover blurb made me a bit dismayed, because I prefer the novel format to short stories. ...Read Review
The Garment Maker’s Daughter
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In the early 20th century, three immigrants stand aboard a ship sailing into Ellis Island, each with their own dreams about what coming ...Read Review
