Doug Kemp
South of the Border
Ireland 1942. Matt Duggan, fresh out of college, starts his first post as a teacher at the boys’ school…
Darwin: A Life in Poems
As part of the two anniversary events in 2009—two hundred years since the birth of Charles Darwin and 150 years…
By George
Ventriloquists’ dummies can seem rather macabre and a little disturbing, and this novel has an element of the bizarre about…
Apology For The Woman Writing
Editors' choice
France in the 16th century. Marie de Gournay is a self-educated “difficult” child whose life is centred in her dead…
The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein
Peter Ackroyd’s fiction has a strong historical rooting, particularly in novels like Hawksmoor and Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem,…
A Whispered Name
Father Anselm, a bee-keeping monk of Larkwood Monastery in Suffolk, receives two visitors who wish to see a now deceased…
Lady Worsley’s Whim: An 18th-Century Tale of Sex, Scandal, and Divorce
In the latter part of the 18th century, British society was enthralled and scandalised by the long-running and very public…
I Believe In Yesterday
Tim Moore, known more for his amusing travel books, has written a wonderfully funny and intelligent account of his seven…
The Affair of the Mutilated Mink
This is a delightful 1930s English country house murder mystery, the second in the series set in the Earl…
The Outcast
Editors' choice
Set in a middle-class commuter town in southern England in the late 1940s and 1950s, this is a highly…
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