Douglas Kemp

Les Âmes Grises (Grey Souls)

By Hoyt Rogers (trans.) - By Philippe Claudel - Published 2015

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LiteraryMystery/Crime

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

By Kate Atkinson - Published 2015

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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

By David Lagercrantz - By George Goulding (trans.) - Published 2015

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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

By Anthony Quinn - Published 2015

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Mystery/Crime

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

Touched

By Joanna Briscoe - Published 2014

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It is 1963, and Douglas and Rowena Crale and their five children have just moved from London into their dream cottage in the charming ...Read Review

The Zone of Interest

By Martin Amis - Published 2014Published WSP15

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Literary

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

Jeeves and the Wedding Bells

By Sebastian Faulks - Published 2014

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What ho, the renowned scribbler Sebastian Faulks has jolly well gone and bunged out a rather decent tale involving that immortal pair of ...Read Review

The Paying Guests

By Sarah Waters - Published 2014

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LiteraryThriller

Frances Wray, in her mid-twenties, lives in genteel poverty with her widowed mother in a large house in Camberwell, London. It is 1922, just ...Read Review

The Final Season: The Footballers Who Fought and Died in the Great War

By Nigel McCrery - Published 2014

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MilitaryNonfiction

After the start of the First World War, professional league football in England continued until the end of the 1914-1915 season, despite pressures ...Read Review

Trials of Passion: Crimes in the Name of Love and Madness

By Lisa Appignanesi - Published 2014

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Mystery/CrimeNonfiction

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