Douglas Kemp

Flâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London

By Lauren Elkin - Published 2016

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Nonfiction

It’s quite difficult to classify this book. Part memoir of Lauren Elkin’s love affair with the city as a locus of ...Read Review

The Dark Circle

By Linda Grant - Published 2016

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Post-war austerity London in 1949, and feisty East-ender brother and sister twins Lenny and Miriam Lenskey are shocked when they are both diagnosed with ...Read Review

Magpie Murders

By Anthony Horowitz - Published 2016Published 2017

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Mystery/Crime

Much of the book is taken up by a conventional murder mystery set in 1955 in the quaint village of Saxby-on-Avon in the south-west ...Read Review

Judas

By Amos Oz - By Nicholas de Lange (trans.) - Published 2016

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Literary

Jerusalem in the winter of 1959-1960, and Shmuel Ash drops out of his postgraduate university studies with his life in a mess: his ...Read Review

The Book of the Needle

By Matthew Francis - Published 2015

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England and Wales in the early-to-mid 17th century. Arise (or Rhys) Evans tells his story, in an ostensible memoir and a book on ...Read Review

Three Men and a Bradshaw: An Original Victorian Travel Journal

By John George Freeman - By Ronnie Scott (ed.) - Published 2016

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Nonfiction

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

Breakdown: The Crisis of Shell Shock on the Somme, 2016

By Taylor Downing - Published 2016

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MilitaryNonfiction

The acute psychological stress inflicted on soldiers during the mass industrialised killing of The Great War is reasonably well known. The author studies ...Read Review

The Great Swindle

By Frank Wynne (trans.) - By Pierre Lemaitre - Published 2016

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The story begins with an act of dreadful treachery. In early November 1918, and the final days of The Great War, Albert Maillard and É...Read Review

Edgar Allan Poe and the London Monster

By Karen Lee Street - Published 2016

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Mystery/Crime

June 1840, and Poe sails to England, where he meets up with (his own fictional creation) the detective C. Auguste Dupin. He first met ...Read Review

Stranger Than We Can Imagine: Making Sense of the Twentieth Century

By John Higgs - Published 2016

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Nonfiction

The author examines that extraordinary century, the twentieth, which really did bear little relation to any that had preceded it. Now that we ...Read Review