Douglas Kemp

Small Bomb At Dimperley

By Lissa Evans - Published 2024

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England 1945, and Dimperley Manor in Buckinghamshire is recovering from the predations of war, having been used as a home for pregnant women whose ...Read Review

A Woman of Opinion

By Sean Lusk - Published 2024

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

This is a fictionalized autobiography of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, the renowned 18th-century woman of letters, traveller, and thoroughly unconventional and eccentric character. ...Read Review

The Small Museum

By Jody Cooksley - Published 2024

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Mystery/Crime

London in the latter part of the 19th century. Madeleine, a young woman from rural Cheshire, is newly married to Dr Lucius Everley ...Read Review

Estella’s Revenge

By Barbara Havelocke - Published 2024

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Writing a sequel or a novel with a character’s alternative perception presents challenges to the author, in that the reader needs to ...Read Review

Alvesdon

By James Holland - Published 2024

Genres:

Saga

August 1939, and once more Britain is on the brink of a terrible global conflict. The Castells are a long-established landed farming family in ...Read Review

The Silence In Between

By Josie Ferguson - Published 2024

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This story is set in Berlin in the tumultuous German middle-third of the century. Lisette lives with her husband, 15-year-old daughter Elly and ...Read Review

All The Colours You Cannot Name

By Joad R. Wren - Published 2024

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London at summer’s end in 1666, its shellshocked population just beginning to emerge from the worst ravages of the bubonic plague. James White ...Read Review

The Tower

By Flora Carr - Published 2024

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

A pregnant Mary Stuart, known usually as Queen of Scots, is taken to the isolated, bleak water-girt island of Lochleven Castle in the ...Read Review

Murder at Maybridge Castle (A Christmas Mystery, 3)

By Ada Moncrieff - Published 2023

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

December 1936, and a select number of guests are invited to spend a long weekend just before Christmas at Maybridge Castle in the far ...Read Review

The Little Penguin Bookshop

By Joanna Toye - Published 2024

Genres:

Saga

August 1939, and the unwelcome spectre of war descends again on Britain – a country that has barely recovered from the disasters of The Great ...Read Review

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