Douglas Kemp
A Field Guide to the English Clergy: A Compendium of Diverse Eccentrics, Pirates, Prelates and Adventurers; All Anglican, Some Even Practising
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This is a brief but utterly delightful and funny series of mini-biographies of English clergymen who exhibited a bewildering range of eccentric behaviour ...Read Review
The Syndicate
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This is a sequel to the author’s 2017 novel The Pictures, reviewed in HNR issue 80. It is the United States in the summer ...Read Review
Murder at the Fitzwilliam (The Museum Mysteries)
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Cambridge 1894, and Daniel Wilson, formerly a detective inspector with London’s Metropolitan Police, is now working as a private investigator after the leaving ...Read Review
The House on Vesper Sands
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London in the cold winter of 1893, and there have been puzzling reports of the souls of young women of the teeming capital having ...Read Review
Fatal Inheritance
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England in the dull spring of 1948. Eve Forrester is a bored suburban housewife in south London, married to the fastidious and tedious Clifford – ...Read Review
The Hidden
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Jersey under German occupation in the Second World War. Dora Simon is a German-Jewish refugee in her mid-20s, working as a midwife ...Read Review
The Coal Miner’s Wife (The Deerness Series)
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This is the second in the Deerness series, set in the industrial north-east of England. It is the turn of the century in ...Read Review
The Great Level
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England during the interregnum in the 17th century. Jan Brunt, a Dutch engineer, is employed to assist in drawing up plans for the ...Read Review
A Respectable Woman
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Lancashire in the early 1920s, and Nell struggles to make a living for herself after losing her family in the Great War. When ...Read Review
Call of the Curlew (UK) / The Orphan of Salt Winds (US)
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December 1939, and Virginia, an orphan aged 10, is adopted by Clem & Lorna Wrathmell. She is taken to their large house, Salt Winds, on ...Read Review