Doug Kemp
Small Wars
Genres:
Cyprus 1956. The newly promoted Major Hal Treherne is sent to the garrison at Episkopi, where his wife Clara and their young twin ...Read Review
Savage Lands
Genres:
It is 1704. There are fewer than 200 people in Louisiana, the newest French colony. Craftsmen and soldiers have sent a request for virtuous, marriageable ...Read Review
The Kindly Ones
Genres:
This is an immense novel; both in terms of its size, for it was a physical challenge to take this on the daily ...Read Review
Stone’s Fall
Genres:
The story straddles the 19th and 20th centuries, and, like the author’s An Instance of the Fingerpost, is narrated by a number ...Read Review
The Blind Side of the Heart
Genres:
Eastern Germany at the end of the Second World War. The story starts with a young boy, Peter, being abandoned by his mother ...Read Review
The Captain’s Table
Genres:
This is the second in the Bella Wallis series: Bella is an attractive widow, who writes thrilling and highly successful tales under ...Read Review
The Little Stranger
Genres:
There is a fundamental enigma at the heart of this excellent novel set in England in the austere and grim years after the ...Read Review
The Scourging Angel
Genres:
The author has written a comprehensive study of the Great Death (as it was called at the time – The Black Death was a 19...Read Review
Hodd
Genres:
One of Britain’s most critically acclaimed authors, Adam Thorpe, has written another brilliant and original novel. The device is not entirely new (...Read Review
The Children’s Book
Genres:
This long-awaited novel, A.S. Byatt’s first since 2001, is extraordinarily difficult to encapsulate and to do full justice within the confines of ...Read Review
