Douglas Kemp
No. 1 St James’ Park
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Alan Judd’s new novel returns to the world of intelligence work that has occupied much of his fiction, with the focus on ...Read Review
I Am The House
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Narrated by a Victorian house on a rural American lane, this novel traces the layered histories of its site from Indigenous settlement through ...Read Review
A Woman of Agency
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The writer sets out his stall briskly: espionage, diplomacy and war circling one another in the fraught summer of 1863. A French courier is ...Read Review
The Redacted Sherlock Holmes Volume X
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The afterlife of Sherlock Holmes shows no sign of abating, and this series continues to carve out its own niche within that crowded ...Read Review
The Glass Key
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This novel belongs to that ever-popular strand of historical fiction in which family secrets reverberate across generations, the past pressing insistently upon the ...Read Review
Little Wild
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The late 1930s remain fertile ground for fiction, yet Little Wild sidesteps familiar international tensions to explore the quieter, more unsettling terrain of ...Read Review
The Wartime Affair (Love in War Book 3)
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The Second World War continues to offer novelists an apparently inexhaustible supply of stories, its moral extremities and personal upheavals lending themselves readily ...Read Review
The Riviera Secret
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The French Riviera on the eve of the Second World War offers an alluring stage for historical fiction, where glamour and impending catastrophe ...Read Review
The End of the Vodka
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War stories rarely lack for incident, but they require a shaping intelligence to distinguish the merely dramatic from the genuinely revealing. The End ...Read Review
Tisiphone Walking
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This novel (the second in the Ishtar’s Gate series) enters that crowded field of Second World War fiction with a story rooted ...Read Review
