Douglas Kemp
Cruickshank’s London: A Portrait of a City in 13 Walks
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This is an accessible and highly readable description of the buildings, topography, and history of London, divided into thirteen walks. While the design ...Read Review
The Art of Living
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Any novel, historical or otherwise, that begins with a photograph of the fictional first-person narrator and the caption laconically stating that the subject, ...Read Review
Last Days in Cleaver Square
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This is a novel of the Spanish Civil War, or more accurately, the memories of the traumatic times that Francis McNulty ponders on. ...Read Review
Snow Country
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This is a sequel to Faulks’s 2005 novel Human Traces. Given that there has been a 16-year hiatus between the two books, it ...Read Review
The Dangerous Kingdom of Love
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England, 1613, and Francis Bacon travels to the royal palace at Theobalds, to be told by King James that he will be elevated to ...Read Review
Widowland
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England, April 1953. But this is a quite different country – one that succumbed to Germany in 1940 and has since been under occupation. Rose Ransom, ...Read Review
Surviving Katyn: Stalin’s Polish Massacre and the Search for Truth
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This is a comprehensive account of the events leading up to, and the aftermath of the notorious massacre of Polish military officers in 1940, ...Read Review
Murder at Madame Tussauds (Museum Mysteries 6)
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London in the autumn of 1896, and private detectives Daniel Wilson and Abigail Fenton are back for their sixth adventure. After a previous episode’...Read Review
The Dockland Murder (Blitz Detective 5)
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In this fifth in the Detective Inspector Jago/Blitz series, it is early November 1940, and the body of a murdered man, Ray Lambert, ...Read Review
The Auschwitz Photographer: Based on the True Story of Wilhelm Brasse, Prisoner 3444
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Wilhelm Brasse, a Polish prisoner at Auschwitz in 1941, is recruited by the SS to take photographs of all the new arrivals. This is ...Read Review