Douglas Kemp
Flâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Breakdown: The Crisis of Shell Shock on the Somme, 2016
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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
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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
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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
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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
