Doug Kemp
A Quiet Adjustment
This is the second in the author’s Lord Byron series – though both novels can be read independently and indeed…
I Want to Live
This is the diary of a girl in her teens, writing during the mid-1930s under Stalin’s Soviet Union. Nina’s…
An Expert in Murder
This is the first in a projected murder mystery series featuring the author Josephine Tey. There are now many…
The White King
Set in an East European communist totalitarian country in the 1970-1980s, this novel is narrated by an 11-year-old boy…
Of Merchants and Heroes
Editors' choice
Set around 200 BC in Rome and Greece, Paul Waters’ first novel is a well-written and intelligent tale. Marcus, aged…
The Pillars of Rome
This is the first book in a trilogy from an author more usually known as David Donachie, writer of historical…
Bright Young People
This is a fascinating study of the amorphous body of brittle, peacock-brilliant hedonists who in the 1920s came to be…
White Heat: A History of Britain in the Swinging Sixties 1964-1970
This is a sequel to the author’s Never Had It So Good – a political and social history of Britain…
Something Wicked
This is the ninth book in the Lord Edward Corinth and Verity Browne Golden Age of Detection murder mystery series.…
An Utterly Impartial History of Britain
This is essentially 1066 and All That for the 21st century. John O’Farrell, who is better known for his Guardian…
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