C.H.B. Kitchin

• Dec-1989
• / Suspense
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• Jan-1990
• / Suspense
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Malcolm Warren, a young but valetudinarian stockbroker, is looking forward to a dull weekend when a telegram summons him to stay with his capricious old Aunt Catherine, who has shocked the family by marrying Hannibal Cartwright, a muscular garage ...

• Mar-2009
• / General Fiction
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'One must admire the perfectly done thing, and this evocation of the late Edwardian age, told with ironic grace and subtlety, is the best thing of its kind since L. P. Hartley's "The Go-Between."' - "Vogue" 'Worldly, wise, mild, funny, and tender, w...

• Jun-2009
• / General Fiction
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C. H. B Kitchin brilliantly and bizarrely links the worlds of E. F. Benson and Evelyn Waugh in the story of Mr Balcony. Bored with the London summer, this enigmatic man fills his yacht with assorted socialites, chief among them the beautiful, rest...

• Jul-2009
• / Literary
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'There is quite a Bloomsbury set, is there not?'

'There is, ' said Miss Clame, 'but we're not in it. We're just the tiniest bit west, both spiritually and geographically.'

Miss Clame certainly never concealed her limited income nor that she ...

• Aug-2009
• / General Fiction
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The Secret River spans the two and a half decades that opened in the grip of the 'bright young things' of the mid-twenties and closed in the blanket embrace of the Welfare State. It takes us from Bayswater, via the Sussex countryside, the South of...

• Oct-2009
• / Literary
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The Auction Sale relates a sensitive and subtle evocation of country life in the late 1930s. The friendship between Alice Elton and Mrs. Durrant, the latter's sad love affair and the appreciation of fleeting beauty pervade. Such melancholy themes are...

• Oct-2009
• / Mystery
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'There we were, all gathered together for a Christmas party, and plunged suddenly into gloom.' It's Christmas at Hampstead's Beresford Lodge. A group of relatives and intimate friends gather to celebrate the festive season, but their party is rude...

• Jun-2013
• / General Fiction
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'Mr Kitchin is an enjoyably ruthless writer.' - "Punch" '"Ten Pollitt Place" is written in another language. It is another world. . . . T]he observation is delightful. It is beautifully done.' - "The Observer" 'Mr Kitchin is still writing the trad...

• Mar-2014
• / Literary
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• Jun-2014
• / Mystery
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" A] first-class psychological study . . . the character drawing, although a little cruel, is admirably done and the writing is consistently excellent." - "Times Literary Supplement" "It is original, it is strangely exciting, and the logic of its pl...

• Jul-2014
• / General Fiction
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