Doug Kemp
Peg Plunkett: Memoirs of a Whore
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In the 18th century, “whore memoirs” became a popular literary phenomenon, when high-class courtesans would pen their autobiographies, full of titillating details of ...Read Review
A History of Loneliness
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Odran Yates narrates the story of his life in Ireland. As a young boy in the early 1960s through to the present day ...Read Review
Snow and Steel: Battle of the Bulge 1944-45
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This is an immensely detailed and researched account of the German offensive from December 1944 to January 1945 to retake the Ardennes in northern France ...Read Review
The New World
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This is a sequel to the former Poet Laureate’s own sequel to RL Stevenson’s Treasure Island. This was titled Silver (reviewed ...Read Review
Attrition: Fighting the First World War
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This is a thoroughly well researched account of the Great War. It is not just another routine history of the familiar events, but, ...Read Review
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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Occasionally there are books published which simply demand the reader to take a new look on life. This is one – the reader may ...Read Review
The Quick
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England in the latter half of the 19th century. The novel begins conventionally enough with orphaned brother and sister James and Charlotte living ...Read Review
Field of Shadows: The Remarkable True Story of the English Cricket Tour of Nazi Germany 1937
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In 1937 an amateur cricket club from Worcestershire undertook a tour of Berlin to play three matches against German cricket clubs. With Germany at ...Read Review
One Summer: America 1927
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1927 was certainly an eventful year for the USA. Charles Lindbergh made the first solo transatlantic flight, and immediately became the world’s most ...Read Review
Darkling
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Mia Morgan is researching the life of Lady Brilliana Harley, 17th-century Puritan and now known mostly for the letters she wrote to her ...Read Review
