HNR Issue 81 (August 2017)
Mothering Sunday
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Despite the title, Mothering Sunday is lacking in mothers. It is the story of what a young housemaid and orphan, Jane Fairchild, chooses ...Read Review
When the Future Comes Too Soon
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The matriarch of the Chye Hoon family has died, and now it is her daughter-in-law, Mei Foong, and her husband, Weng Yu, who ...Read Review
The Massacre of Mankind
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This is a sequel to H.G. Wells’ iconic story of the Martian invasion of England. It is 1920, and the story is told ...Read Review
Yvain: The Knight of the Lion
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This retells, in graphic novel format, a 12th-century Arthurian romance by Chretien de Troyes, the foremost French poet of narrative verse in the ...Read Review
Prison of War: A Novel of World War II
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Written for readers ages twelve and up, Prisoner of War is the harrowing story of 15-year-old Henry Forrest, who lies about his age ...Read Review
The Secret of the India Orchid
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In this Regency romance, broken-hearted Sophia Elliot would like to get as far away from Anthony Blake, the Earl of Wilshire, as possible ...Read Review
Holy Blood
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Eden Grey, Kim Fleet’s fictional private detective, continues with her mission to litter Cheltenham with as many literary corpses as Inspector Morse’...Read Review
A History of London in 50 Lives
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The author has written fifty short vignettes of Londoners or those who lived and made their mark on the United Kingdom’s capital ...Read Review
The Heirs of Owen Glyndwr
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The year is 1969. A small group of Welsh nationalists have built a bomb planned to explode in Carnarvon castle just as Queen Elizabeth ...Read Review
Bright Air Black
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The familiar Greek myth of Jason and Medea is retold in Bright Air Black. In brilliant, evocative prose, the world of the Bronze ...Read Review