HNR Issue 99 (February 2022)
The Key In The Lock
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A gothic tale, set in rural Cornwall over two timelines. In the first, the narrator Ivy is trying to come to terms with ...Read Review
Emilie
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Emilie is a compelling novel set during the wars between Catholics and Huguenots in 16th-century France. Emilie, the daughter of a Huguenot nobleman, ...Read Review
The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois
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In 1973 a baby girl is born to Belle and Geoff Garfield. Ailey Pearl Garfield is a lover of books, a child whose lineage ...Read Review
Not One Of Us (The Teifi Valley Coroner Series, 4)
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Teifi Valley, Wales, 1851. Harry Probert-Lloyd, though only 27, has been forced back from London by failing eyesight to his lands at Glanteifi. As coroner ...Read Review
The Last Grand Duchess
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When The Last Grand Duchess opens in March 1917, we are witness to the collapse of a world: the privileged existence of the Romanov ...Read Review
The Fortune Men
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‘Defend me for what? You can’t get me to worrying,’ says Mahmood Mattan, when offered legal representation after his arrest in Tiger’...Read Review
When the Nightingale Sings
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When the Nightingale Sings tells the fictionalised life of real-life scientist Joan Curran and Hollywood film star, Hedy Lamarr. The novel explores the ...Read Review
Some Rise By Sin
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London, 1829: while passing themselves off as bakers, Sammy and Facey make a living as talented “Resurrection Men” and as debt-collectors, in which a “...Read Review
When We Lost Our Heads
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In late 19th-century Montreal, girls and women are filled with rage in Heather O’Neill’s When We Lost Our Heads. The story ...Read Review
Walking the Divide: A Tale of a Journey Home
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In 1947, at the time of the Partition of India, Europe was still in the grip of the aftereffects of World War Two, preoccupied ...Read Review
