HNR Issue 95 (February 2021)
Nanteos: The Dipping Pool
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A companion to Blank’s The Shadow of Nanteos (2015), set in 1750s Cardiganshire, this novel tells the story not only of Thomas and ...Read Review
Blood and Silver
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Fate has dealt twelve-year-old Carissa Beaumont a bad hand. After cholera claimed her father and brother in 1876, laudanum sank its hooks into her ...Read Review
In This Land of Plenty
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When Nicole Sinclair, a young California woman, gets the results of a DNA test, she’s shocked to find that her ancestry contains ...Read Review
Native Stranger (Lazare Family Saga)
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When the third book in the Lazare Family Saga opens in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1859, the family is reeling from tragedy and questioning ...Read Review
In the Garden of Spite: A Novel of the Black Widow of La Porte
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Biographical FictionMystery/Crime
Big Brynhild, now known as Nellie, escapes her harsh Norwegian village life for America, reluctantly leaving behind her sister, Little Brynhild. Little Brynhild, ...Read Review
Finding Paradise
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Just before the American Civil War, Ellen Schmidt was a spinster daughter from a well-respected plantation in Georgia. Instead of dancing and taking ...Read Review
Heart of Cruelty: Gothic Secrets in Victorian Birmingham
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Birmingham, 1840: Heart of Cruelty opens in a workhouse, where two girls are punished by being made to crush slaughterhouse bones, a scene described ...Read Review
Eleonora and Joseph
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Rodrigues tells the story of Eleonora Fonseca Pimentel and Joseph Correia da Serra, two remarkable people from late 18th-century Naples. Eleonora is the ...Read Review
San Josef
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In August 1898, Clayton Monroe, sixty-some years old, is looking for a place of refuge. On the run from the law in the States, ...Read Review
The Monastery
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Solovki. The first Soviet labour camp on an island in the White Sea, the blueprint for what became the Gulag. Originally planned as ...Read Review
