HNR Issue 98 (November 2021)
The Master of Measham Hall
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1665: Charles II has returned from exile and is now king, but the Civil War still casts its long, dark shadow, intensified by the ...Read Review
John Eyre: A Tale of Darkness and Shadow
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In 1843, John Eyre leaves his position as a schoolmaster in Lowton, England, to become a private tutor for a pair of young boys ...Read Review
Harlem Shuffle
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In 1960s Harlem, Ray Carney owns his own furniture store and is determined to prove himself as an honest businessman, in stark contrast ...Read Review
Wuhan
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No, this is not a hastily written novel about Covid-19. It is a big, sprawling, angry novel that was started well before the ...Read Review
Anticipation
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“Anticipation” often implies hopeful expectation but here refers to the Huntington’s disease (HD) gene, discernible in one generation, anticipated in the next. ...Read Review
Beasts of a Little Land
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This beautiful book follows the lives of a girl named Jade, who is sold at the age of ten as an apprentice to ...Read Review
Meet Me under the Kissing Bough
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Set in England in the early 1800s, this collection contains three romantic Christmas tales of about a hundred pages each. Each story involves ...Read Review
The Gypsy’s Daughter (Memory Lane)
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The eponymous Harmony Loveridge, “Harry” to her family, friends and others who are neither, is raised on a farm in Kent by loving ...Read Review
The Vixen
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This is one of the most satisfying novels I’ve read in ages. From the beginning, Prose places us firmly in the consciousness ...Read Review
The Dead Cry Justice (A Gilded Age Mystery)
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As we are reminded by 19th-century photographer Jacob Riis’s zealous documentation of the slums, the plight of destitute children is painful to ...Read Review
