Doug Kemp
The Song Before It Is Sung
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The steady flow of literary interest with Nazism and its impact upon history shows no sign of abating. This is, perhaps, not so ...Read Review
The Solitude of Thomas Cave
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Set in the first half of the 17th century, this is a poetic and highly literate novel that has as its themes the ...Read Review
The Nature of Monsters
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This is Clare Clark’s second novel and, like her first, The Great Stink, it is immersed in the filth, chaos and downright ...Read Review
In the Shadow of Lady Jane
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This novel covers the well-known story of Lady Jane Grey, queen for nine days and executed at the age of sixteen in 1553. It ...Read Review
Kept
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Set in 1860s England, this literary novel is very much in the style of well-known Victorian fiction, but it is more than ...Read Review
The Truth About Sascha Knisch
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Set in the oppressively hot summer of 1928 Berlin, this is a fascinating, though often obscure novel. The eponymous Sascha is an occasional cross-dresser ...Read Review
Van Rijn
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The subject of Sarah Miano’s second novel is Rembrandt van Rijn. This is by no means a conventional fictional biography of the ...Read Review
Arthur and George
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I should perhaps point out that as Julian Barnes is one of my favourite contemporary prose writers, I approached his new novel in ...Read Review
Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
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We all know who William Shakespeare was—a prolific writer born in Stratford-on-Avon who traveled to London to make his fortune with words. ...Read Review
