HNR Issue 95 (February 2021)

Britain and the Ocean Road: Shipwrecks and People, 1297-1825

By Ian Friel - Published 2020

Genres:

NauticalNonfiction

This is not a maritime history of Britain to 1825, nor is it really a book about shipwrecks. It is a set of eight ...Read Review

Line by Line (Love along the Wires)

By Jennifer Delamere - Published 2020

Genres:

Inspirational Romance

In 1880s London, Alice McNeil has long ago chosen a career as a telegrapher instead of marriage and family, and has never regretted ...Read Review

How to Avoid the Marriage Mart (Breaking the Marriage Rules)

By Eva Shepherd - Published 2020

Genres:

Romance

1893. Despite her mother’s unrelenting pressure, Lady Charlotte Fitzroy has ‘no interest in becoming a married woman, effectively giving up her independence and ...Read Review

The Virginia Dynasty: Four Presidents and the Creation of the American Nation

By Lynne Cheney - Published 2020

Genres:

Nonfiction

In this highly readable, engrossing work of nonfiction, Cheney chronicles highlights in the lives of the first four men from Virginia who served ...Read Review

The Finder of Lost Things

By Kathy Lynn Emerson - Published 2020

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Winter 1590. Blanche Wainfleet is known as a finder of lost things. Utilizing her strong deductive skills, she must now discover who murdered her ...Read Review

A Lightness in My Soul: Inspired by a True Story

By Annette Oppenlander - Published 2020

Genres:

“That day, my soul went flying out again.” In this novella, at times horrific and at others poignant, Arthur struggles to maintain an ...Read Review

Unto This Last

By Rebecca Lipkin - Published 2020

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

John Ruskin was approaching forty when he agreed to teach drawing to the nine-year-old Rose La Touche, with whom he gradually fell in ...Read Review

Nora: A Love Story of Nora and James Joyce

By Nuala O’Connor - Published 2021

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

In light of Brenda Maddox’s brilliant and exhaustive biography of Nora Barnacle—wife and muse of the writer James Joyce—and the 2000 ...Read Review

The Last Tea Bowl Thief

By Jonelle Patrick - Published 2020

Genres:

In present-day Tokyo, Nori Okuda thinks she may have found a tea bowl crafted by the Pottery Priest Yoshi Takamatsu in the 1700s. ...Read Review

The Girl from the Tanner’s Yard

By Diane Allen - Published 2020

Genres:

RomanceSaga

Flirtatious tanner’s daughter Lucy Bancroft aspires to something better than the grinding drudgery her mother endures, raising too many children with little ...Read Review