Orion
The Chalice
Bilyeau’s first book, The Crown, brought us the determined but naïve Joanna Stafford, Dominican nun and daughter of a disgraced…
Back to Blackbrick
This beautifully-written time-slip novel explores memory loss, grief and family relationships. It’s narrated in a lively 21st-century voice by Cosmo,…
Maria and the Admiral
“We all have a story at our core that we may disown or admit. It is often about love.” In…
Clash of Empires: The Red Sea
This is a sequel to Clash of Empires: The Great Siege, which I have not read and the HNR did…
Elijah’s Mermaid
Editors' choice
There is always a fear that an author’s second novel will not live up to the first. I was very…
Ghost Knight
Eleven-year-old Jon Whitcroft is being sent to the Salisbury Cathedral Choir School where his late father once went. He’d convinced…
Poseidon’s Spear
Distraught over the death of his wife, Aristemnos — bronzesmith, warrior, and survivor of the battle of Marathon — flings…
The Virgin Cure
Editors' choice
Ami McKay’s second novel is set in the tenements of lower Manhattan about five years after the end of the…
Jasmine Nights
In 1942, Saba Tarcan, a determined and talented young singer from Cardiff, joins ENSA, the Entertainments National Service Association, much…
The Unseen
As in her earlier, acclaimed novel, The Legacy, author Katherine Webb designs her new story, The Unseen, around a dual…
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