Douglas Kemp
War and Turpentine
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Classified as fiction, this fascinating book seems to be a hybrid of memoir, biography and fiction. The author’s subject is his grandfather, ...Read Review
The Wednesday Club
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Helsinki 1938, as Europe ferments towards another global conflict. Lawyer Claes Thune is still trying to come to terms with the departure of his ...Read Review
The Long Weekend: Life in the English Country House Between the Wars
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The title of this volume reflects a certain nostalgic appeal, as being the final time that large English (mostly) rural residences for the ...Read Review
John Aubrey: My Own Life
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At a time when the notion of Englishness is very much under scrutiny, John Aubrey is considered to be an epitome of the ...Read Review
The Curious Affair of the Somnambulist and the Psychic Thief
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It is 1893, and Miss Aphrodite (usually known as Di) Lane arrives in London having left her erstwhile partner, Miss Georgia Cox, whom she ...Read Review
The Gustav Sonata
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Switzerland in the years just after the end of the Second World War. Gustav Perle is a young boy living a bleak and ...Read Review
Beloved Poison
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London in 1846, and St. Saviour’s hospital is due for demolition and relocation, to allow the construction of a new railway through its ...Read Review
The Ashes of London
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The Great Fire rages in London. James Marwood, the narrator, who works as an underling reporter for Joseph Williamson, who in turn is ...Read Review
Fever at Dawn
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1945 and war has just ended in Europe. Miklós (family name not revealed) and Lili Reich were both Jewish-Hungarian prisoners and survivors of ...Read Review
Richard’s Feet
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This is the fictional memoir, ostensibly written in 1968, of Richard Thurgo who has led a most intriguing life. He is a big cheese ...Read Review
