HNR Issue 85 (August 2018)

The Black Silk Purse

By Margaret Kaine - Published 2018

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

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

By Santa Montefiore - Published 2018

Genres:

Saga

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

By Natasha Solomons - Published 2018

Genres:

Saga

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

By Kathleen Kaufman - Published 2018

Genres:

Literary

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

By Frances Hardinge - Published 2016Published 2018Published c2014

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

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

By Kathryn Le Veque - Published 2017

Genres:

Romance

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

By Ken Czech - Published 2018

Genres:

AdventureMilitary

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

By D.W. Lovett (trans.) - By Sarah Lark - Published 2018

Genres:

Saga

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

By Boris Akunin - Published 2018

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

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

By Lorna Gray - Published 2018

Genres:

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