Quercus
Queen High (UK) / Queen Wallis (US)
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This is the sequel to C. J. Carey’s well-received 2021 novel, Widowland (reviewed in HNR 97). England in 1955 remains under the dominion of a ...Read Review
The House at Helygen
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Cornwall in both the 19th century and 2019. This is a tale with a decidedly Gothic tint, following the fortunes of three women who ...Read Review
The Bookseller of Inverness
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This is S. G. MacLean’s first stand-alone novel since her popular Damian Seeker series. In 1745, Jacobite Iain MacGillivray is left for dead ...Read Review
The Midnight Hour (The Brighton Mysteries)
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England 1965. Nonagenarian ex-impresario Bert Billington is found poisoned at his retirement home, and in classic who-done-it style, there are enough faces in the ...Read Review
The Miller’s Daughter
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1861, County Durham. When Mary is ten, her father, the village miller, walks out, leaving his wife and four children destitute. Mary’s mother ...Read Review
Widowland
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England, April 1953. But this is a quite different country – one that succumbed to Germany in 1940 and has since been under occupation. Rose Ransom, ...Read Review
Sisterhood
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This story is about identical twin sisters, so alike that they could, and often did, exchange identities to fool friends and family, but ...Read Review
The Final Revival of Opal & Nev
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The Final Revival of Opal and Nev is an oral history of a fictional 1970s duo, Opal Jewel and Nev Charles. All the ...Read Review
Balkan Glory: Thomas Kydd 23
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This is the latest episode in the career of Captain Sir Thomas Kydd and his ship Tyger. The action takes place in the ...Read Review
The Deception of Harriet Fleet
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All the ingredients for a classic gothic novel are present – 21-year-old Harriet Cauldwell arrives at a large, isolated English north country property, Teesbank ...Read Review