Douglas Kemp
East West Street: On the Origins of Genocide and Crimes against Humanity
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This is an erudite and well-written account of how, during and after the mostly German-committed atrocities in Europe in World War Two, the ...Read Review
The Apprentice of Split Crow Lane: The Story of the Carr’s Hill Murder
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In April 1866, in the small village of Carr’s Hill, in the north-east of England, the murdered body of Sarah Melvin, a five-year-old ...Read Review
Birdcage Walk
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Bristol in the latter decade of the 18th century. Elizabeth (or Lizzie as she is mostly known), narrates the story in the first ...Read Review
Kingdom of Twilight
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This lengthy novel begins in German-occupied Poland towards the end of the Second World War, with the German forces in retreat from the ...Read Review
Who Killed Piet Barol?
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This is the sequel to the author’s History of a Pleasure Seeker, published in 2010, which focused on the hedonistic life of Piet ...Read Review
England’s Cathedrals
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As a companion piece to his successful England’s Thousand Best Churches, the author has produced a guide to the cathedrals of England: 42 ...Read Review
The Quiet Death of Thomas Quaid: Lennox 5
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Glasgow in the late 1950s. Lennox is a private investigator, of Canadian birth, who works on the margins of legality amidst the crime ...Read Review
Three Men and a Bradshaw: An Original Victorian Travel Journal
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From 1873 to 1877, the author enjoyed various holiday jaunts with his two brothers and other family members within the United Kingdom. John Freeman wrote ...Read Review
The Hidden People
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England in the 1860s. Albie Millards, a rather pompous and earnest clerk in his father’s London business, travels to a small village, ...Read Review
Thin Air: A Ghost Story
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1935 in the Himalayas, and Dr. Stephen Pearce is part of a small party of climbers that are to attempt the hitherto unscaled mountain ...Read Review
