HNR Issue 85 (August 2018)
The Black Silk Purse
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I thoroughly enjoyed The Black Silk Purse. Set in Edwardian England on the brink of suffrage, the novel follows the lives of three ...Read Review
The Secret of the Irish Castle
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Ballinakelly is a beautiful village in Ireland, one where the Deverill and O’Leary families are victims of a curse that Maggie O’...Read Review
House of Gold
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The Goldbaums are a wealthy Jewish family with considerable political and economic influence throughout Europe. It is 1911, and the world has little inkling ...Read Review
Hag
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In the years after WWII, a little girl grows up in Glasgow and later moves with her mother to Colorado. Alice Grace is ...Read Review
Cuckoo Song
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When Triss wakes up after an accident, she realises that something is very wrong, although she does not know what as she remembers ...Read Review
Shield of Kronos
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1196 AD, England. Garrett de Moray is Captain of the Royal Guard for King Richard. Lady Lyssa du Bose is a lady-in-waiting to the ...Read Review
Last Dance in Kabul
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In 1841 Afghanistan, in the recently captured Kabul Fort, British Captain Reeve Waterton is having a heated discussion with his commanding officer, Brigadier Shelton. ...Read Review
Beneath the Kauri Tree
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Second in Lark’s The Sea of Freedom Trilogy, Beneath the Kauri Tree is a family saga set primarily in 19th-century New Zealand, ...Read Review
All the World’s A Stage
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In 1911 Moscow, renowned detective and self-described harmonious man Erast Fandorin expects to be involved in the investigation about minister Stolypin’s murder – and ...Read Review
The Antique Dealer’s Daughter
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Gray’s third historical novel takes place in the postwar Cotswolds, a place whose bucolic appearance conceals a difficult past. In 1947, Emily Sutton, ...Read Review