Doug Kemp
The Bones of Avalon
Editors' choice
England 1560, and the young Queen Elizabeth is still settling into her new throne. Whilst trying to usher in a…
The Bones of Avalon
Editors' choice
England 1560, and the young Queen Elizabeth is still settling into her new throne. Whilst trying to usher in a…
Grandville
This is a sumptuously illustrated graphic novel, by an author-artist who received wide acclaim for his 2007 book Alice in…
Oscar’s Books
This is a wonderfully well written biography of Oscar Wilde, and one which takes a very different approach, for it…
The Lady in the Tower
The demand for the Tudors seems inexorable. This is a detailed study of the closing days of the life of…
The Man in the Wooden Hat
This is a companion novel to Old Filth, published in 2005. As I had not read the first book, this…
Small Wars
Cyprus 1956. The newly promoted Major Hal Treherne is sent to the garrison at Episkopi, where his wife Clara…
The Affair of the Thirty-Nine Cufflinks
This is the third and final instalment (the author died in 2007) of the 1930s Golden Age murder mystery series,…
The Kindly Ones
This is an immense novel; both in terms of its size, for it was a physical challenge to take this…
Stone’s Fall
The story straddles the 19th and 20th centuries, and, like the author’s An Instance of the Fingerpost, is narrated by…
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