Douglas Kemp

Fire

By C.C. Humphreys - Published 2016

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This is the second volume in the series set in Restoration London. It is 1666 and the newly established pairing of Pitman and William ...Read Review

The Gustav Sonata

By Rose Tremain - Published 2016

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Literary

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

By E. S. Thomson - Published 2016

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Mystery/Crime

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

Freya

By Anthony Quinn - Published 2016Published 2017Published 2017-11-07

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Literary

The novel starts at the end of the Second World War. Freya Wyley, aged 20, has been doing intelligence work for the Wrens and ...Read Review

If This Is a Woman: Inside Ravensbrück: Hitler’s Concentration Camp for Women

By Sarah Helm - Published 2015

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Nonfiction

This is an exceptionally detailed history of the only concentration camp established under the Nazi regime solely for female prisoners. Ravensbrück, which ...Read Review

The Noise of Time

By Julian Barnes - Published 2015Published 2016

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Biographical FictionLiterary

This is a fictional account of the life of the Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich. It is by no means a conventional linear narrative, ...Read Review

A Petrol Scented Spring

By Ajay Close - Published 2015

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The subject of this short and zesty novel is the women’s fight for the right to vote in the first two decades ...Read Review

Borders

By Don Bartlett (trans.) - By Don Shaw (trans.) - By Roy Jacobsen - Published 2015

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Military

The novel has its centre in the small country of Luxembourg, a tiny state that is strongly marked and influenced by borders and ...Read Review

The Crime and the Silence: A Quest for the Truth of a Wartime Massacre

By Alissa Valles (trans.) - By Anna Bikont - Published 2015

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Nonfiction

In 2000, Jan T. Gross published an account of a massacre of the Jewish inhabitants of a small town in eastern Poland, Jedwabne, in ...Read Review

Diary of a Body

By Alyson Waters (trans.) - By Daniel Pennac - Published 2016

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Literary

After a traumatic experience as a Boy Scout while camping in 1936 in which he felt that his body seriously let him down, the 12...Read Review