HNR Issue 99 (February 2022)

The Key In The Lock

By Beth Underdown - Published 2022

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

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

By Ingrid Ramsdale - Published 2021

Genres:

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

By Honorée Fanonne Jeffers - Published 2021

Genres:

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)

By Alis Hawkins - Published 2021

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

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

By Bryn Turnbull - Published 2022

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

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

By Nadifa Mohamed - Published 2021

Genres:

Literary

‘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

Some Rise By Sin

By Siôn Scott-Wilson - Published 2021

Genres:

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 the Nightingale Sings

By Suzanne Kelman - Published 2021

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

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

The Stars Are Not Yet Bells

By Hannah Lillith Assadi - Published 2022

Genres:

Literary

Unreliable narrators are a tricky device. In The Stars Are Not Yet Bells, the protagonist, Elle Ranier, tells her story of moving from ...Read Review

The Sisters Sweet

By Elizabeth Weiss - Published 2021

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Beautifully written, immersive, and at points compelling, The Sisters Sweet is the story of Harriet Szász, and her twin, Josie, daughters of ...Read Review

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