HNR Issue 84 (May 2018)

Brixton Beach

By Roma Tearne - Published 2018

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On 7 July 2005 in London, Doctor Simon Swann rushes out of his hospital onto the streets and into the aftermath of an incident in ...Read Review

Blood on the Heather

By Griselda Gifford - Published 2017

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Children/Young AdultTime-slip

Set in the Highlands of Scotland in 2017, with a time-slip to 1745, an era of red coats and Jacobites, this charming novel reveals the ...Read Review

The Cedar

By Carmen Butler - Published 2016Published c1965

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Saga

It’s the early 19th century, and Elisabeth has lost everything in Charleston, South Carolina. With her companions—the carriage driver, her servant, ...Read Review

The Spirit Photographer

By John Michael Varese - Published 2018

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Edward Moody (based on the real William Mumler) is a spirit photographer from Boston who saw the horrors of the Civil War through ...Read Review

The Wanderers

By Tim Pears - Published 2018

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Expelled from the Prideau estate where his brother works, a boy named Leo Sercombe begins an odyssey in 1912 across the moors and small ...Read Review

The Strange and Deadly Portraits of Bryony Gray

By E. Latimer - Published 2018Published 2018-02-13

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Children/Young Adult

Described as “Lemony Snicket meets Oscar Wilde meets Edgar Allan Poe,” this supernatural adventure for middle-grade readers is not quite witty or gothic ...Read Review

Voices of the Second World War: A Child’s Perspective

By Sheila A Renshaw - Published 2018

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NonfictionShort Stories

There are nearly 40 authors of this book, 26 of them telling stories mainly of four to six pages, and the rest making shorter contributions, ...Read Review

None of Us the Same

By Jeffrey K. Walker - Published 2017

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Saga

None of Us the Same is a story of heart, hope and heroes, a World War I novel with the feel of authenticity, ...Read Review