HNR Issue 99 (February 2022)
The History of the World in 100 Pandemics, Plagues and Epidemics
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Pandemics are nothing new. The 100 events summarised here are not an exhaustive list, but they include all the best-known plagues in history plus ...Read Review
Karitas Untitled
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Karitas Untitled is a newly translated Icelandic novel peopled with unique, quirky, and well-defined characters. With the talent of a true artist, the ...Read Review
The Dead Are Resting
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In The Dead Are Resting, the secrets that Becky Weiss’s parents keep from her are both revelational and disturbing. Becky grows up ...Read Review
Half in Shadow
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The beginning of this book starts off with a bang—literally. A bomb dropped on a village in Belgium by the Germans in 1914 ...Read Review
Cracked Reflections
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Gaining inspiration from the early 20th-century unrest in many small, one-industry New England textile mill towns, Hoyt has crafted a complex interpersonal novel. ...Read Review
The Caballero’s Son
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This novel depicts a different version of the California gold rush than many readers likely know: the devastating effects it had on Native ...Read Review
The King’s Captain
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This is a very slim novella (barely 40,000 words), the second (after The King’s Spy, reviewed in HNR 96) in the “rebellion” series of ...Read Review
A Thousand Steps
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If you’re into the hippie scene, Laguna Beach, California, is the place to be in summer 1968. However, sixteen-year-old Matt Anthony has more ...Read Review
A Heart Adrift
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In 1755 York, Virginia, 28-year-old chocolatier Esmée Shaw has never quite gotten over her former fiancé, Captain Henri Lennox, although it has been ...Read Review
The Girl Across the Sea
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This dual-timeline novel tells two equally engaging stories set in 1930s America and 1984 Ireland. They tell of abandonment and family secrets: poignant tales ...Read Review
