HNR Issue 85 (August 2018)
The Sapphire Widow
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The breathtaking scenery of Ceylon is the true hero of this novel, as the descriptions of its verdant hills, turquoise seas, ancient estates, ...Read Review
One House Over
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Tall, ungainly, thirty-one-year-old African American Joyce MacPherson lives in her parents’ home, works as a teacher’s aide, and pines for a hot ...Read Review
The Pear Tree
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This indie gem is a gripping and historically authentic recounting of the 1942 assassination of Nazi leader Reinhardt Heydrich in Czechoslovakia, the hunting and ...Read Review
Boardwalk Summer
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Violet yearns to be a Hollywood actress in 1940. Even though she is married, she enters and wins the Miss California pageant in Santa ...Read Review
The Game of Hope
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At the close of the French Revolution, fifteen-year-old Hortense de Beauharnais—step-daughter of Napoleon Bonaparte—is attending Madame Campan’s Institute for Girls, ...Read Review
Rose Rivers
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Late Victorian London. 13-year-old Rose Rivers lives in a large house with her artist father, her self-centred mother, and her six siblings. Her ...Read Review
A Sacred Storm
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The second instalment of Theodore Brun’s Wanderer Chronicles returns readers to 8th-century Scandinavia with our troubled hero, Erlan, and his loyal servant, ...Read Review
An Onshore Storm
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This is the 24th installment in the Alan Lewrie naval adventures, this one set in 1796. Napoleon has invaded Italy, and England is out ...Read Review
Promises and Primroses
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England, 1822. Lord Elliott Mayfield has decided that, with the help of his wealth, he will guide his nephews and nieces towards responsible marriages. ...Read Review
Midnight Crossing
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The plot of this book will mystify anyone unfamiliar with the earlier After Midnight, as readers are expected to know the background and ...Read Review
