Chatto and Windus
The Kindly Ones
This is an immense novel; both in terms of its size, for it was a physical challenge to take this…
The Captain’s Table
This is the second in the Bella Wallis series: Bella is an attractive widow, who writes thrilling and highly…
Bright Young People
This is a fascinating study of the amorphous body of brittle, peacock-brilliant hedonists who in the 1920s came to be…
Kept
Set in 1860s England, this literary novel is very much in the style of well-known Victorian fiction, but it…
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