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Skylarking

By Kate Mildenhall - Published 2016Published 2017

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Bookish Kate Gilbert and her slightly older, more worldly, best friend, Harriet Parker, are growing up during the last decades of the 19th ...Read Review

Mothering Sunday

By Graham Swift - Published 2016Published 2017

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Literary

Despite the title, Mothering Sunday is lacking in mothers. It is the story of what a young housemaid and orphan, Jane Fairchild, chooses ...Read Review

The Devil’s Feast

By M. J. Carter - Published 2016Published 2017

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Mystery/Crime

It is 1842, and in this third outing for William Avery, late of the East India Company Army, and Jeremiah Blake, special inquiry agent, ...Read Review

Accession

By Livi Michael - Published 2016

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Accession concludes Livi Michael’s Wars of the Roses trilogy, begun in Succession (HNR 71) and Rebellion (HNR 74). We begin in the aftermath of ...Read Review

Blue Bonnets: Dancing for the Devil Trilogy, Book 2 / Sword Dance: Dancing for the Devil Trilogy, Book 3

By Marie Laval - Published 2016

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These sequels to The Dream Catcher, which I reviewed in HNR 76, are set in Scotland in 1847. To tell the truth, I was looking ...Read Review

The Dream Catcher: Dancing for the Devil Trilogy, Book One

By Marie Laval - Published 2015

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AdventureRomance

November 1847. Disgraced soldier Bruce McGunn has returned to his ancestral home at Cape Wrath in the far north of Scotland. In desperate need ...Read Review

The Jade Lioness

By Christina Courtenay - Published 2015

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AdventureRomance

Japan, 1648. The only foreigners permitted to trade are the Dutch, and then only from the island enclave of Dejima, near Nagasaki. Temperance (“Temi”) ...Read Review

The First Dance

By Richard S. Wheeler - Published 2011

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AdventureWestern

Western writer Richard S. Wheeler gives us the latest novel in his Barnaby Skye series, The First Dance, which deals with border conflicts ...Read Review