HNR Issue 95 (February 2021)

The Tower of Fools (Hussite Trilogy, 1)

By Andrzej Sapkowski - By David A. French (trans.) - Published 2020

Genres:

Historical Fantasy

This is the first book of a fantasy/historical trilogy set in Silesia during the 15th century when the followers of early Protestant ...Read Review

Murder at Tregowyn Manor (Catherine Tregowyn Mysteries Book 3)

By G.G. Vandagriff - Published 2020

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Oxford, 1935. A simple favor for a lifelong friend rapidly turns into much more than expected for amateur sleuth Catherine “Cat” Tregowyn. Sonny, cousin ...Read Review

The Monastery

By Nicholas Kotar (trans.) - By Zakhar Prilepin - Published 2020

Genres:

Literary

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

The Running Wolf

By Helen Steadman - Published 2020

Genres:

Master sword-maker Hermann Mohll is forced to flee Solingen in Germany in the 1680s as work dries up. He follows what keeps his ...Read Review

Flowing Water, Falling Flowers

By X H Collins - Published 2020

Genres:

As her life begins to fall apart, Rose Ming decides to accept her mom’s invitation to return to China and visit relatives. ...Read Review

Sylvia Pankhurst: Natural Born Rebel

By Rachel Holmes - Published 2020

Genres:

Nonfiction

This biography of suffragist and political activist Sylvia Pankhurst is a giant doorstopper of a book, exhaustively researched but not, surprisingly, exhausting to ...Read Review

A Castaway in Cornwall

By Julie Klassen - Published 2020

Genres:

Inspirational Romance

In 1813 in North Cornwall, looting shipwrecks is a way of life. Unwritten rules of the area allow for wreckers to take the washed ...Read Review

The Song of the Skylark

By Liz Shakespeare - Published 2020

Genres:

Mary Mitchell is just nine years old when she is offered as a “prize” to men drawing straws to win her services as ...Read Review

From These Broken Streets

By Roland Merullo - Published 2020

Genres:

Naples, Italy, 1943: the Nazis have devastated the city but now plan to bomb the coastline so neither Allies nor supplies can enter and ...Read Review

The Virtues of Scandal: A Novel of Lord Byron

By Richard Abramson - Published 2020

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

This retelling of the last decade in the life of George Gordon, Lord Byron, opens at the battle of Missolonghi in 1824, to the ...Read Review