HNR Issue 95 (February 2021)
Medici: Supremacy
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Florence, 1469. Lorenzo de Medici has become the head of the family and de facto ruler of Florence. Life is never simple in the ...Read Review
Murder Most Festive: A Christmas Mystery
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England, 1938, and it’s Christmas Eve at the large house Westbury Manor in Sussex, home to Lord and Lady Westbury, who are having ...Read Review
The Boy with Blue Trousers
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The Boy with Blue Trousers is set in 1856/57 in the Pearl River Delta, China and Robetown, Australia. The narrative alternates between the life ...Read Review
Pont Neuf
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This atmospheric and intelligent novel of World War II boasts both insightful glimpses of Martha Gellhorn (Ernest Hemingway’s third wife) and battle ...Read Review
Fires of Change (The Fire Blossom Saga)
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Fires of Change is the second book in the Fire Blossom Saga. It is 1863, and friends Cat and Ida have made a success ...Read Review
Side Effects: A Footloose Journey to the Apocalypse
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Full of postwar optimism, a newly married couple from New York set out to travel the country by motorcycle. When they reach California, ...Read Review
The Kitchen Front: A Novel
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This warm hug of a novel, by the author of The Chilbury Ladies Choir, depicts the power of community in the face of ...Read Review
I’m Staying Here
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This fascinating story set in northern Italy, on the Austrian border, begins in 1923 and ends in 1950. It’s told in first-person narrative as ...Read Review
A Little Rebellion Is a Good Thing: Troubles at Traymore College
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1969. David Pritchard has great plans for his future and takes up employment as a political science professor at Traymore women’s college in ...Read Review
The Poetry of Secrets
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In 1481 Trujillo, Spain, sixteen-year-old Isabel is an unusual girl. Not only can she read and write, but she also sneaks out at night ...Read Review
