Douglas Kemp
The League of Lonely War Women
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The Second World War continues to furnish novelists with inexhaustible plots, its vast machinery of conflict creating space for both grand strategy and ...Read Review
The Revenge of King Charles
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This novel revisits one of the most dramatic episodes of the 17th century: the trial and execution of Charles I. Told in the ...Read Review
Powder for Drying Wounds
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This novel is an ambitious and original reimagining of the First World War, extending the conflict beyond 1918 into a morally depleted 1920s. The ...Read Review
Havisham
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Reimagining the lives of canonical characters has become a familiar strand of historical fiction, and Havisham joins this tradition by retelling the story ...Read Review
The Tombstone Maker’s Daughter
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This is an ambitious, emotionally freighted novel set in Cornwall in the uneasy years following the Civil War and during the recurring plague ...Read Review
Smoke in Berlin (Hugo Fischer)
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Set in the fractured city of Berlin in the late 1940s, where ruins still smoulder and the Cold War’s first nerves are ...Read Review
The Hope Not Plot: A Novel of Churchill’s Final Farewell
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This is an energetic and meticulously engineered alternative-history thriller built around a real event: the 1965 state funeral of Winston Churchill. The novel posits ...Read Review
From Malice to Ashes: Forest of No Mercy (Malice and Mercy Series)
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This is a fast-moving historical novel set largely in Lithuania, Latvia and Sweden during the cataclysmic summer of 1941. Through the intertwined journeys of ...Read Review
The Long Shadows of War
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The novel begins in late-1980s suburbia, where siblings clearing their mother’s house uncover a trunk of papers about their father, George: ...Read Review
Never Let Me Go
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Set in the war-torn hills of North Carolina in 1863, Never Let Me Go follows sixteen-year-old Rowan O’Clanahan, an Irish-American girl who cuts ...Read Review
