Douglas Kemp
Line In The Sand: The Story of David and Goliath
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Set one thousand years before the start of the Christian era, this is a retelling of the familiar Biblical story of David and ...Read Review
The Kings Head
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North London in the 1950s, and the still bomb-damaged streets are “governed” by a small girl gang called the Kings. Like most gangs, ...Read Review
Try Before You Trust: To All Gentlewomen and Other Maids in Love
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London in the early autumn of 1567, and Isabella Whitney, aged 18, arrives at the substantial London home of the widowed Lady Bramwell. As a ...Read Review
Leaving Fatherland
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Oskar Bachmann is a bookish adolescent in late 1920s Germany. But domestic life in his small hometown just south of Berlin is dominated ...Read Review
A Particular Man
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England in the autumn of 1945. Despite the victory in the War, life in Britain remains dull, austere and flat. The firmly middle-class Everett ...Read Review
The Night in Venice
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More usually known as novelist Andrew Martin, the author has written an utterly beguiling story set in Edwardian England and Venice. It is 1911, ...Read Review
Small Bomb At Dimperley
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England 1945, and Dimperley Manor in Buckinghamshire is recovering from the predations of war, having been used as a home for pregnant women whose ...Read Review
A Woman of Opinion
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This is a fictionalized autobiography of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, the renowned 18th-century woman of letters, traveller, and thoroughly unconventional and eccentric character. ...Read Review
The Small Museum
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London in the latter part of the 19th century. Madeleine, a young woman from rural Cheshire, is newly married to Dr Lucius Everley ...Read Review
Estella’s Revenge
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Writing a sequel or a novel with a character’s alternative perception presents challenges to the author, in that the reader needs to ...Read Review
