Douglas Kemp
Fire
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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
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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
Freya
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
