Doug Kemp
The English Ghost: Spectres Through Time
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The prolific Peter Ackroyd’s latest book is a collection of supposedly factual reports of supernatural occurrences in England, from the Middle Ages ...Read Review
Nemesis
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A stifling hot summer in Newark, New Jersey 1944. Eugene “Bucky” Cantor is the playground director for his mainly Jewish neighbourhood when the scourge ...Read Review
Grandville Mon Amour: A Fantasy
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This is the second in the graphic novel series, set in a steampunk fin de siècle London and Paris (known as Grandville). ...Read Review
Daniel
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Sweden in the 1870s. Hans Bengler, a dilettante permanent student, decides almost on a whim that he wants to travel to Africa to ...Read Review
Berlin at War: Life and Death in Hitler’s Capital 1939-45
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This is an absorbing account of what life was like for the ordinary Berliner during the six years of the Second World War ...Read Review
The Beekeeper’s Apprentice
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This is the first book in Laurie R. King’s highly popular Mary Russell/Sherlock Holmes series, relaunched by the publisher, along with ...Read Review
Your Presence is Requested at Suvanto
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Suvanto is a sanatorium/hospital in Finland, set sometime in the 1920s. The story is focused on Suvanto’s upper floor patients – mostly ...Read Review
Inheritance
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Andy Larkham, in his late 20s, impoverished and working for a small London publishing firm, attends the funeral of a former schoolteacher. Or ...Read Review
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Set in the opening quarter of the 20th century, this is not a novel easy to summarise or capture in a few words. ...Read Review
The Player’s Curse
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This is the third in the Bella Wallis series, set in a feisty Victorian England. Bella, who is a successful writer of exciting ...Read Review
