Doug Kemp
Three Houses
This is a richly nostalgic and evocative account of the writer’s childhood with her younger brother (who also went on…
The Monster’s Lament
London in the spring of 1945, and the country is starting to think about the ending of the Second World…
A Less Boring History of the World
Horrible History for adults is the best way I can pithily describe this. It is a breakneck gallop through all…
Capital Crimes: Seven Centuries of London Life and Murder
London, as one of the world’s principal cities for many years, has been the focus for incalculable crimes and misdemeanours,…
The Streets
London 1882, and the young David Wildeblood starts work on Henry Marchmont’s staff as researcher/journalist on the weekly publication The…
Falstaff
First published in 1976, Nye’s rambling autobiographical musings of the Shakespearean figure Sir John Falstaff is surprisingly contemporary in its…
Merivel: A Man of His Time
Editors' choice
This is a sequel to Tremain’s 1989 novel, Restoration, which was a memoir of Sir Robert Merivel, physician, bon-viveur, friend…
Silver: Return to Treasure Island
R.L. Stevenson’s novel has enchanted and fascinated generations of readers since its publication in the late 19th century. The story…
The Secret Archives of Sherlock Holmes
June Thomson has published a number of these pastiches of the famous stories of Arthur Conan Doyle. They all consist…
Underworld London: Crime and Punishment in the Capital City
This is a broad-brush account of London’s most notorious crimes from the Middle Ages up to the present day, together…
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