Doug Kemp
Behind Closed Doors: The Tragic, Untold Story of the Duchess of Windsor
The author is a well known historian of mostly 20th-century monarchy and British society, including the duke and duchess of…
Bloodlands
The bloodlands are defined by the author as that part of central Europe – Poland, Ukraine, Belarus and the Baltic…
Strange Meetings: The Poets of the Great War
The relatively small number of British poets who have come to epitomise the experience of the Great War continues to…
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Set in the opening quarter of the 20th century, this is not a novel easy to summarise or capture in…
The Beekeeper’s Apprentice
This is the first book in Laurie R. King’s highly popular Mary Russell/Sherlock Holmes series, relaunched by the publisher, along…
Your Presence is Requested at Suvanto
Suvanto is a sanatorium/hospital in Finland, set sometime in the 1920s. The story is focused on Suvanto’s upper floor patients…
Inheritance
Andy Larkham, in his late 20s, impoverished and working for a small London publishing firm, attends the funeral of a…
The Player’s Curse
This is the third in the Bella Wallis series, set in a feisty Victorian England. Bella, who is a successful…
Berlin at War: Life and Death in Hitler’s Capital 1939-45
This is an absorbing account of what life was like for the ordinary Berliner during the six years of the…
Savage Lands
Louisiana in the early years of the 18th century; this is a novel about the French settlers who attempted to…
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