Douglas Kemp
Tightrope
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April 1945, and Marian Sutro, a young woman with English-French parentage, has returned to her parents’ home in Oxford after working for the Special ...Read Review
The Last Roundhead
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These are the fictional memoirs of one Sir Blandford Candy, writing at the grand old age of 95 in 1719 – indeed probably the final Roundhead ...Read Review
The Revolutions
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Arthur Shaw, an impecunious writer, meets and subsequently falls in love with Josephine Bradman during London’s (fictional) Great Storm of 1893. While attending ...Read Review
News from Berlin
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Switzerland, June 1941, and Oscar Verschuur is a Dutch diplomat, with a reputation as a political firefighter, working in Berne. His wife, Kate, is ...Read Review
Les Âmes Grises (Grey Souls)
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France, December 1917, in the midst of the Great War and a harsh winter. In an unidentified town just behind the front line, a ...Read Review
A God in Ruins
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This is a sequel/companion volume to Kate Atkinson’s wonderful 2013 novel Life after Life, which was mostly about Ursula Todd’s strange ...Read Review
Fall of Man in Wilmslow: The Death and Life of Alan Turing
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Biographical FictionMystery/Crime
The focus of this novel is the life and death of Alan Turing, the mathematician who was instrumental in cracking the German Enigma ...Read Review
Curtain Call, Or the Distinguished Thing
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London 1936, and the UK is in the midst of concerns about a seemingly approaching war with Germany, allied to the threats of violence ...Read Review
The Zone of Interest
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Amis takes us into the uncomfortable territory of a Nazi death camp in Poland in 1942 and 1943. It is not named, but it soon ...Read Review
Trials of Passion: Crimes in the Name of Love and Madness
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The author focuses on a small number of criminal trials in England, France and the United States in the latter years of the 19...Read Review
