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How We Disappeared
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Straddling two timelines and told from the perspective of two narrators, How We Disappeared is an evocative glimpse into Japanese-occupied Singapore during World ...Read Review
Solovyov and Larionov
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Russian novels are hefty and generally involve a sweeping panorama of people and events. Solovyov and Larionov is cast in that same mode, ...Read Review
In the Shadow of Wolves
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Eastern Prussia in the bitter winter of 1946. The Soviet Army is in occupation, keen to take their revenge upon the German people. Eva, ...Read Review
Zuleikha
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Soviet Russia in 1930. The gradual accession of Stalin to power in the 1920s eventually ended the liberalization of society and the economy, leading ...Read Review
A Field Guide to the English Clergy: A Compendium of Diverse Eccentrics, Pirates, Prelates and Adventurers; All Anglican, Some Even Practising
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This is a brief but utterly delightful and funny series of mini-biographies of English clergymen who exhibited a bewildering range of eccentric behaviour ...Read Review
Patriot or Traitor: The Life and Death of Sir Walter Ralegh
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It’s said that good non-fiction should be as gripping as a tense murder-mystery. With this fascinating biography, Anna Beer has indeed met ...Read Review
The Syndicate
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This is a sequel to the author’s 2017 novel The Pictures, reviewed in HNR issue 80. It is the United States in the summer ...Read Review
The Hidden
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Jersey under German occupation in the Second World War. Dora Simon is a German-Jewish refugee in her mid-20s, working as a midwife ...Read Review
Lala
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Born in 1919 in southern Poland to an accomplished family, Helena “Lala” Bieniecka lived nearly 90 eventful years, and her ancestral lore goes back even ...Read Review
Patriot or Traitor: The Life and Death of Sir Walter Ralegh
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The man Beer describes as “a true Renaissance man” had a tenuous place in society—birth date unknown—as the fifth son of ...Read Review