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Writing Making Your Mark Edited by Ewan Clayton Writing surrounds us in the modern world – but how did it develop into the systems we use today, and given the technological developments of the twenty-first century, what does its future hold?
Hardback with jacket £40 ISBN 978 0 7123 5253 6 Paperback £25 ISBN 978 0 7123 5248 2 272 Pages, 280 x 220 mm Over 100 colour illustrations Publishing April 2019
Ewan Clayton is Professor in Design at the University of Sunderland. For twelve years he worked as a consultant to Xerox PARC, the research lab in California that developed much of the digital technology underpinning the world of digital communications that we know today. He is also a calligrapher and lettering artist. He grew up in and around a craft community at Ditchling in Sussex founded by Eric Gill. Ewan’s book The Golden Thread, a history of writing, was published in 2013 and has been translated into a number of languages.
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This beautifully illustrated book, published to coincide with an interactive landmark British Library exhibition, celebrates the act of writing from across the globe. Exploring the history of writing and including more than 150 illustrations from carved stone inscriptions and medieval manuscripts to samples of early printing, modern handwriting and digital inputting systems, it reflects on the use of writing over the last 5,000 years and challenges our preconceptions about writing’s decline in the digital age.
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Writing Making Your Mark Edited by Ewan Clayton Writing surrounds us in the modern world – but how did it develop into the systems we use today, and given the technological developments of the twenty-first century, what does its future hold?
Hardback with jacket £40 ISBN 978 0 7123 5253 6 Paperback £25 ISBN 978 0 7123 5248 2 272 Pages, 280 x 220 mm Over 100 colour illustrations Publishing April 2019
Ewan Clayton is Professor in Design at the University of Sunderland. For twelve years he worked as a consultant to Xerox PARC, the research lab in California that developed much of the digital technology underpinning the world of digital communications that we know today. He is also a calligrapher and lettering artist. He grew up in and around a craft community at Ditchling in Sussex founded by Eric Gill. Ewan’s book The Golden Thread, a history of writing, was published in 2013 and has been translated into a number of languages.
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This beautifully illustrated book, published to coincide with an interactive landmark British Library exhibition, celebrates the act of writing from across the globe. Exploring the history of writing and including more than 150 illustrations from carved stone inscriptions and medieval manuscripts to samples of early printing, modern handwriting and digital inputting systems, it reflects on the use of writing over the last 5,000 years and challenges our preconceptions about writing’s decline in the digital age.
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Leonardo da Vinci A Mind in Motion Edited by Juliana Barone Written by leading Leonardo experts from London and Florence, and accompanying a major British Library exhibition, this fascinating new book reveals the central importance of motion in Leonardo’s art and thought. Large-scale reproductions of Leonardo’s handwritten notes include clear illustrations of dozens of pages from Codex Arundel, alongside other manuscripts and paintings. Leonardo’s ingenious, cutting-edge ideas about the art and physics of motion – the dynamics of motion in water; movement of the human form; and motion as a force in artistic composition – are explained in a clear and accessible form as never before. Hardback £20 ISBN 978 0 7123 5283 3 160 pages, 255 x 195 mm 70 colour illustrations Publishing June 2019
Juliana Barone is Associate Research Fellow in the Department of History of Art at Birkbeck College, London. Her doctoral thesis at Oxford University was on Leonardo da Vinci and motion.
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Leonardo da Vinci A Mind in Motion Edited by Juliana Barone Written by leading Leonardo experts from London and Florence, and accompanying a major British Library exhibition, this fascinating new book reveals the central importance of motion in Leonardo’s art and thought. Large-scale reproductions of Leonardo’s handwritten notes include clear illustrations of dozens of pages from Codex Arundel, alongside other manuscripts and paintings. Leonardo’s ingenious, cutting-edge ideas about the art and physics of motion – the dynamics of motion in water; movement of the human form; and motion as a force in artistic composition – are explained in a clear and accessible form as never before. Hardback £20 ISBN 978 0 7123 5283 3 160 pages, 255 x 195 mm 70 colour illustrations Publishing June 2019
Juliana Barone is Associate Research Fellow in the Department of History of Art at Birkbeck College, London. Her doctoral thesis at Oxford University was on Leonardo da Vinci and motion.
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The Globetrotter Excursions in the East Amy Miller In the mid-nineteenth century, as routes opened up, a new generation of travellers embarked on excursions to China, India and Japan. Globetrotters – leisure tourists with a keen interest in experiencing authentic culture – flocked to the East, casting aside preconceptions and gravitating towards what they hoped to be the unchanged landscapes and traditions of Eastern cultures.
Hardback £30 ISBN 978 0 7123 5258 1 256 pages, 240 x 165 mm Over 100 colour illustrations Publishing May 2019
The relics of their travels – the food they consumed and the souvenirs they brought back – allowed globetrotters to distinguish themselves from common tourists. They proudly returned with accounts that presented a global East, challenging public assumptions about the cultures they had visited and charting a journey of self-transformation through travel.
Amy Miller is currently completing a PhD on the history and material culture of the global tourist in the nineteenth century at University College London. She has an MA from the Bard Graduate Center, New York, in Decorative Arts and Material Culture Studies. Formerly Curator of Decorative Arts and Material Culture at the National Maritime Museum, she is the author of Dressed to Kill: Naval Uniform, Masculinity and Fashion 1748–1857.
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The Globetrotter Excursions in the East Amy Miller In the mid-nineteenth century, as routes opened up, a new generation of travellers embarked on excursions to China, India and Japan. Globetrotters – leisure tourists with a keen interest in experiencing authentic culture – flocked to the East, casting aside preconceptions and gravitating towards what they hoped to be the unchanged landscapes and traditions of Eastern cultures.
Hardback £30 ISBN 978 0 7123 5258 1 256 pages, 240 x 165 mm Over 100 colour illustrations Publishing May 2019
The relics of their travels – the food they consumed and the souvenirs they brought back – allowed globetrotters to distinguish themselves from common tourists. They proudly returned with accounts that presented a global East, challenging public assumptions about the cultures they had visited and charting a journey of self-transformation through travel.
Amy Miller is currently completing a PhD on the history and material culture of the global tourist in the nineteenth century at University College London. She has an MA from the Bard Graduate Center, New York, in Decorative Arts and Material Culture Studies. Formerly Curator of Decorative Arts and Material Culture at the National Maritime Museum, she is the author of Dressed to Kill: Naval Uniform, Masculinity and Fashion 1748–1857.
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Alice’s Adventures Under Ground
Playing Jane
The Original Manuscript
Jane Austen Adapted for Drawing-room Performance
Lewis Carroll
Rosina Filippi One ‘golden afternoon’ in Oxford, in July 1862, the Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson accompanied three young sisters, Lorina, Alice, and Edith, on a boating trip. To keep the children amused, Dodgson began to tell a tale about an inquisitive youngster called Alice, and her escapades in an underground world. Two years later, on the urgings of the heroine, Alice Liddell, he wrote the tale down and gave it to her as an early Christmas gift.
NEW EDITION Hardback £14.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5243 7 128 pages, 187 x 124 mm 42 illustrations Publishing April 2019
Lewis Carroll (1832–98) is the pseudonym of mathematician Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, which he adopted when publishing his famous children’s novels and nonsense verse. Best known for his fantastical tale Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865), Carroll later published Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There (1871). Carroll was an avid letter-writer and wrote numerous stories and poems, including The Hunting of the Snark in 1876.
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Dodgson’s story, later revised and illustrated by John Tenniel, would go on to become one of the most famous and best-loved children’s books of all time – published as Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, under the pen name Lewis Carroll. However, the original tale – Alice’s Adventures Under Ground – remains less well-known. In this facsimile edition of Dodgson’s manuscript – now one of the British Library’s most treasured possessions – with its accompanying commentary by former British Library curator Sally Brown, modern readers can enjoy the expressive story as it was first told.
Hardback £9.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5223 9 160 pages, 178 x 111 mm Includes illustrations Publishing February 2019
Rosina Filippi (1866–1930) was a progressive actor and director who was associated with many of the theatrical greats of her generation. Filippi was also an advocate for women’s rights and was the first person to dramatise Jane Austen for performance. Margaret Fletcher (1862–1943) was an English illustrator and amateur actor. She was a social critic and feminist and went on to found the Catholic Women’s League.
The grasping social climber, the tiresome neighbour, the spirited heroine, the most unsuitable of suitors, and, of course, the perfect love match, are all some of Jane Austen’s timeless literary inventions. Mistress of a sharp wit, Austen’s observations on society and the roles and rights of women are familiar today not only through her novels but from countless screen and stage adaptations. However, the original dramatisation of Austen was first published in 1895, by Victorian feminist and actor Rosina Filippi, who skilfully adapted iconic scenes from Austen’s novels into oneact plays for performance. Playing Jane evokes the romance of Victorian drawingroom entertainment at its best, and with accompanying stage directions and advice on the correct silks and muslins to wear, you too can learn how to play Jane. The Plays Literary tastes – Northanger Abbey The Settlement Question – Sense and Sensibility The Reading of Jane Fairfax’s Letter – Emma A Strawberry Picnic – Emma Three Loves – Emma The Proposal of Mr Collins – Pride and Prejudice Lady Catherine’s Visit – Pride and Prejudice
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Alice’s Adventures Under Ground
Playing Jane
The Original Manuscript
Jane Austen Adapted for Drawing-room Performance
Lewis Carroll
Rosina Filippi One ‘golden afternoon’ in Oxford, in July 1862, the Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson accompanied three young sisters, Lorina, Alice, and Edith, on a boating trip. To keep the children amused, Dodgson began to tell a tale about an inquisitive youngster called Alice, and her escapades in an underground world. Two years later, on the urgings of the heroine, Alice Liddell, he wrote the tale down and gave it to her as an early Christmas gift.
NEW EDITION Hardback £14.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5243 7 128 pages, 187 x 124 mm 42 illustrations Publishing April 2019
Lewis Carroll (1832–98) is the pseudonym of mathematician Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, which he adopted when publishing his famous children’s novels and nonsense verse. Best known for his fantastical tale Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865), Carroll later published Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There (1871). Carroll was an avid letter-writer and wrote numerous stories and poems, including The Hunting of the Snark in 1876.
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Dodgson’s story, later revised and illustrated by John Tenniel, would go on to become one of the most famous and best-loved children’s books of all time – published as Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, under the pen name Lewis Carroll. However, the original tale – Alice’s Adventures Under Ground – remains less well-known. In this facsimile edition of Dodgson’s manuscript – now one of the British Library’s most treasured possessions – with its accompanying commentary by former British Library curator Sally Brown, modern readers can enjoy the expressive story as it was first told.
Hardback £9.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5223 9 160 pages, 178 x 111 mm Includes illustrations Publishing February 2019
Rosina Filippi (1866–1930) was a progressive actor and director who was associated with many of the theatrical greats of her generation. Filippi was also an advocate for women’s rights and was the first person to dramatise Jane Austen for performance. Margaret Fletcher (1862–1943) was an English illustrator and amateur actor. She was a social critic and feminist and went on to found the Catholic Women’s League.
The grasping social climber, the tiresome neighbour, the spirited heroine, the most unsuitable of suitors, and, of course, the perfect love match, are all some of Jane Austen’s timeless literary inventions. Mistress of a sharp wit, Austen’s observations on society and the roles and rights of women are familiar today not only through her novels but from countless screen and stage adaptations. However, the original dramatisation of Austen was first published in 1895, by Victorian feminist and actor Rosina Filippi, who skilfully adapted iconic scenes from Austen’s novels into oneact plays for performance. Playing Jane evokes the romance of Victorian drawingroom entertainment at its best, and with accompanying stage directions and advice on the correct silks and muslins to wear, you too can learn how to play Jane. The Plays Literary tastes – Northanger Abbey The Settlement Question – Sense and Sensibility The Reading of Jane Fairfax’s Letter – Emma A Strawberry Picnic – Emma Three Loves – Emma The Proposal of Mr Collins – Pride and Prejudice Lady Catherine’s Visit – Pride and Prejudice
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Smallbone Deceased
Death in Captivity
A London Mystery
A Second World War Mystery
Michael Gilbert
Michael Gilbert A first-rate job New York Times A classic of the genre Guardian One of his finest novels Daily Telegraph
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5297 0 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm Publishing January 2019
Michael Gilbert (1912–2006), a founding member of the Crime Writers’ Association, wrote thrillers, police procedurals and espionage novels that rank among the highest and most varied achievements of British crime writing in the second half of the twentieth century.
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Horniman, Birley and Craine is a highly respected legal firm with clients reaching to the highest in the land. When a deed box in the office is opened to reveal a corpse, the threat of scandal promises to wreak havoc on the firm’s reputation – especially as the murder looks like an inside job. The partners and staff of the firm keep a watchful and suspicious eye on their colleagues, as Inspector Hazlerigg sets out to solve the mystery of who Mr Smallbone was – and why he had to die. Written with style, pace and wit, this is a masterpiece by one of the finest writers of traditional British crime novels since the Second World War.
Any book by Michael Gilbert is a treat Daily Telegraph A man is found dead in an escape tunnel in an Italian prisoner-of-war camp. Did he die in an accidental collapse – or was this murder? Captain Henry ‘Cuckoo’ Goyles, master tunneller and amateur detective, takes up the case. This classic locked-room mystery with a closed circle of suspects is woven together with a thrilling story of escape from the camp, as the Second World War nears its endgame and the British prisoners prepare to flee into the Italian countryside.
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5213 0 304 pages, 190 x 130 mm Publishing February 2019
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BRITISH LIBRARY CRIME CLASSICS
Smallbone Deceased
Death in Captivity
A London Mystery
A Second World War Mystery
Michael Gilbert
Michael Gilbert A first-rate job New York Times A classic of the genre Guardian One of his finest novels Daily Telegraph
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5297 0 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm Publishing January 2019
Michael Gilbert (1912–2006), a founding member of the Crime Writers’ Association, wrote thrillers, police procedurals and espionage novels that rank among the highest and most varied achievements of British crime writing in the second half of the twentieth century.
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Horniman, Birley and Craine is a highly respected legal firm with clients reaching to the highest in the land. When a deed box in the office is opened to reveal a corpse, the threat of scandal promises to wreak havoc on the firm’s reputation – especially as the murder looks like an inside job. The partners and staff of the firm keep a watchful and suspicious eye on their colleagues, as Inspector Hazlerigg sets out to solve the mystery of who Mr Smallbone was – and why he had to die. Written with style, pace and wit, this is a masterpiece by one of the finest writers of traditional British crime novels since the Second World War.
Any book by Michael Gilbert is a treat Daily Telegraph A man is found dead in an escape tunnel in an Italian prisoner-of-war camp. Did he die in an accidental collapse – or was this murder? Captain Henry ‘Cuckoo’ Goyles, master tunneller and amateur detective, takes up the case. This classic locked-room mystery with a closed circle of suspects is woven together with a thrilling story of escape from the camp, as the Second World War nears its endgame and the British prisoners prepare to flee into the Italian countryside.
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5213 0 304 pages, 190 x 130 mm Publishing February 2019
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Death Has Deep Roots A Second World War Mystery
Surfeit of Suspects George Bellairs
Michael Gilbert The whole thing looks to me like a jigsaw puzzle which has been half done by an inexpert child. Any bit that seems to fit has been left in. Any bit that doesn’t fit has been disregarded.
At 8 o’clock in the evening on the 8th November, there was a terrific explosion in Green Lane, Evingden. The offices of Excelsior Joinery Company are no more; the 3 directors are killed and the peace of a quiet town in Surrey lies in ruins. When the supposed cause of ignited gas leak is dismissed and the presence of dynamite revealed, Superintendent Littlejohn of Scotland Yard is summoned to the scene.
At the Central Criminal Court, an eager crowd awaits the trial of Victoria Lamartine, an active participant in the Resistance during the war. She is now employed at the Family Hotel in Soho, where Major Eric Thoseby has been found murdered. The cause of death? A stabbing reminiscent of techniques developed by the Maquisards.
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5228 4 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm Publishing March 2019
While the crime is committed in England, its roots are buried in a vividly depicted wartime France. Thoseby is believed to have fathered Lamartine’s child, and the prosecution insist that his death is revenge for his abandonment of Lamartine and her arrest by the Gestapo. A last-minute change in Lamartine’s defence counsel grants solictor Nap Rumbold just eight days to prove her innocence, with the highest of stakes should he fail. The proceedings of the courtroom are interspersed with Rumbold’s perilous quest for evidence, which is aided by his old wartime comrades.
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But beneath the sleepy veneer of Evingden lies a hotbed of deep-seated grievances. Confounding Littlejohn’s investigation is an impressive cast of suspicious persons, each concealing their own axe to grind. Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5238 3 256 pages, 190 x 130 mm Publishing April 2019
George Bellairs was the pseudonym of Harold Blundell (1902–1985), a prominent banker and philanthropist from Manchester who became the author of a popular series of detective stories featuring Thomas Littlejohn, which were published for nearly forty years. The Dead Shall be Raised & Murder of a Quack and Death of a Busybody are available as British Library Crime Classics.
Bellairs’ novel of small-town grudges with calamitous consequences revels in the abundant possible solutions to the central crime as a masterpiece of misdirection.
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Death Has Deep Roots A Second World War Mystery
Surfeit of Suspects George Bellairs
Michael Gilbert The whole thing looks to me like a jigsaw puzzle which has been half done by an inexpert child. Any bit that seems to fit has been left in. Any bit that doesn’t fit has been disregarded.
At 8 o’clock in the evening on the 8th November, there was a terrific explosion in Green Lane, Evingden. The offices of Excelsior Joinery Company are no more; the 3 directors are killed and the peace of a quiet town in Surrey lies in ruins. When the supposed cause of ignited gas leak is dismissed and the presence of dynamite revealed, Superintendent Littlejohn of Scotland Yard is summoned to the scene.
At the Central Criminal Court, an eager crowd awaits the trial of Victoria Lamartine, an active participant in the Resistance during the war. She is now employed at the Family Hotel in Soho, where Major Eric Thoseby has been found murdered. The cause of death? A stabbing reminiscent of techniques developed by the Maquisards.
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5228 4 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm Publishing March 2019
While the crime is committed in England, its roots are buried in a vividly depicted wartime France. Thoseby is believed to have fathered Lamartine’s child, and the prosecution insist that his death is revenge for his abandonment of Lamartine and her arrest by the Gestapo. A last-minute change in Lamartine’s defence counsel grants solictor Nap Rumbold just eight days to prove her innocence, with the highest of stakes should he fail. The proceedings of the courtroom are interspersed with Rumbold’s perilous quest for evidence, which is aided by his old wartime comrades.
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But beneath the sleepy veneer of Evingden lies a hotbed of deep-seated grievances. Confounding Littlejohn’s investigation is an impressive cast of suspicious persons, each concealing their own axe to grind. Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5238 3 256 pages, 190 x 130 mm Publishing April 2019
George Bellairs was the pseudonym of Harold Blundell (1902–1985), a prominent banker and philanthropist from Manchester who became the author of a popular series of detective stories featuring Thomas Littlejohn, which were published for nearly forty years. The Dead Shall be Raised & Murder of a Quack and Death of a Busybody are available as British Library Crime Classics.
Bellairs’ novel of small-town grudges with calamitous consequences revels in the abundant possible solutions to the central crime as a masterpiece of misdirection.
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Murder in the Mill Race
Deep Waters
A Devon Mystery
Murder on the Waves
E C R Lorac
Edited by Martin Edwards
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5268 0 256 pages, 190 x 130 mm Publishing May 2019
E C R Lorac was a pen name of Edith Caroline Rivett (1894–1958) who was a prolific writer of crime fiction from the 1930s to the 1950s, and a member of the prestigious Detection Club. Her books include Bats in the Belfry, Fire in the Thatch and Murder By Matchlight, all available as British Library Crime Classics.
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“Never make trouble in the village” is an unspoken law, but it’s a binding law. You may know about your neighbours’ sins and shortcomings, but you must never name them aloud. It’d make trouble, and small societies want to avoid trouble.
From picturesque canals to the swirling currents of the ocean, a world of secrets lies buried beneath the surface of the water. Dubious vessels crawl along riverbeds, while the murky depths conceal more than one gruesome murder.
When Dr Raymond Ferens moves to a practice at Milham in the Moor in North Devon, he and his wife are enchanted with the beautiful hilltop village lying so close to moor and sky. At first they see only its charm, but soon they begin to uncover its secrets – envy, hatred and malice.
The stories in this collection will dredge up delight in crime fiction fans, as watery graves claim unintended dwellers and disembodied whispers penetrate the sleeping quarters of a ship’s captain. How might a thief plot their escape from a floating crime scene? And what is to follow when murder victims, lost to the ocean floor, inevitably resurface?
Everyone says that Sister Monica, warden of a children’s home, is a saint – but is she? A few months after the Ferens’ arrival her body is found drowned in the mill-race. Chief Inspector Macdonald faces one of his most difficult cases in a village determined not to betray its dark secrets to a stranger.
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5288 8 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm Publishing June 2019
This British Library anthology uncovers the best mysteries set below the surface, including stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, William Hope Hodgson and R Austin Freeman.
Martin Edwards is series consultant for British Library Crime Classics. He is an award-winning crime writer, Chair of the Crime Writers’ Association and President of the Detection Club. The Golden Age of Murder, his study of the Detection Club, was published in 2015 to international acclaim, and won the Edgar, Agatha, H.R.F. Keating and Macavity awards for the year’s best book about the genre. The Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books was published by the British Library in 2017.
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Murder in the Mill Race
Deep Waters
A Devon Mystery
Murder on the Waves
E C R Lorac
Edited by Martin Edwards
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5268 0 256 pages, 190 x 130 mm Publishing May 2019
E C R Lorac was a pen name of Edith Caroline Rivett (1894–1958) who was a prolific writer of crime fiction from the 1930s to the 1950s, and a member of the prestigious Detection Club. Her books include Bats in the Belfry, Fire in the Thatch and Murder By Matchlight, all available as British Library Crime Classics.
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“Never make trouble in the village” is an unspoken law, but it’s a binding law. You may know about your neighbours’ sins and shortcomings, but you must never name them aloud. It’d make trouble, and small societies want to avoid trouble.
From picturesque canals to the swirling currents of the ocean, a world of secrets lies buried beneath the surface of the water. Dubious vessels crawl along riverbeds, while the murky depths conceal more than one gruesome murder.
When Dr Raymond Ferens moves to a practice at Milham in the Moor in North Devon, he and his wife are enchanted with the beautiful hilltop village lying so close to moor and sky. At first they see only its charm, but soon they begin to uncover its secrets – envy, hatred and malice.
The stories in this collection will dredge up delight in crime fiction fans, as watery graves claim unintended dwellers and disembodied whispers penetrate the sleeping quarters of a ship’s captain. How might a thief plot their escape from a floating crime scene? And what is to follow when murder victims, lost to the ocean floor, inevitably resurface?
Everyone says that Sister Monica, warden of a children’s home, is a saint – but is she? A few months after the Ferens’ arrival her body is found drowned in the mill-race. Chief Inspector Macdonald faces one of his most difficult cases in a village determined not to betray its dark secrets to a stranger.
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5288 8 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm Publishing June 2019
This British Library anthology uncovers the best mysteries set below the surface, including stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, William Hope Hodgson and R Austin Freeman.
Martin Edwards is series consultant for British Library Crime Classics. He is an award-winning crime writer, Chair of the Crime Writers’ Association and President of the Detection Club. The Golden Age of Murder, his study of the Detection Club, was published in 2015 to international acclaim, and won the Edgar, Agatha, H.R.F. Keating and Macavity awards for the year’s best book about the genre. The Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books was published by the British Library in 2017.
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BRITISH LIBRARY SCIENCE FICTION CLASSICS
The Tide Went Out Charles Eric Maine
The Darkest of Nights Charles Eric Maine
A vicious plague has broken out in China and spread to Japan. The world governments look on callously, until the shadow of the Hueste virus begins to sweep across the rest of the globe.
If only they knew what was really in his mind . . . But they wouldn’t believe. They wouldn’t understand the cold single-mindedness of a desperate man. When London journalist Philip Wade learns that his article on nuclear weapons testing has been censored by the British government, he is prompted to investigate the truth that lies behind it. Philip’s search leads to a mysterious job offer in a newly-formed government department, and he soon realises the lasting damage that the nuclear tests have caused. The country is rife with uncertainty and distrust – then the water levels start to drop.
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5237 6 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm Publishing January 2019
Charles Eric Maine was the pseudonym of David McIlwain (1921–1981), a prolific writer of science fiction novels in the 1950s and 1960s. His stories often feature a fast-paced thriller plot that experiments with the boundaries of new scientific technology.
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This gripping apocalyptic novel, originally published in 1958, asks pertinent questions about censorship and the potential for violence in the face of disappearing resources. The Tide Went Out outlines the horrors that arise when we are forced to ask the question: ‘what happens when the water runs out?’
The pandemic draws nearer to Britain; shelters are hastily constructed across the country, but for whom? As the death toll booms and the populace finds themselves sacrificed for the sake of the elite, the cry for revolution rings out amidst the sirens.
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5218 5 256 pages, 190 x 130 mm Publishing February 2019
Maine’s savage portrayal of society on the brink of ruin is a cruel forerunner of a more pessimistic science fiction of the 1960s. This subversive novel shows that even the heroes may succumb to brutality as the world descends into a desperate scramble for the last shred of what it means to be human: survival.
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The Tide Went Out Charles Eric Maine
The Darkest of Nights Charles Eric Maine
A vicious plague has broken out in China and spread to Japan. The world governments look on callously, until the shadow of the Hueste virus begins to sweep across the rest of the globe.
If only they knew what was really in his mind . . . But they wouldn’t believe. They wouldn’t understand the cold single-mindedness of a desperate man. When London journalist Philip Wade learns that his article on nuclear weapons testing has been censored by the British government, he is prompted to investigate the truth that lies behind it. Philip’s search leads to a mysterious job offer in a newly-formed government department, and he soon realises the lasting damage that the nuclear tests have caused. The country is rife with uncertainty and distrust – then the water levels start to drop.
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5237 6 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm Publishing January 2019
Charles Eric Maine was the pseudonym of David McIlwain (1921–1981), a prolific writer of science fiction novels in the 1950s and 1960s. His stories often feature a fast-paced thriller plot that experiments with the boundaries of new scientific technology.
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This gripping apocalyptic novel, originally published in 1958, asks pertinent questions about censorship and the potential for violence in the face of disappearing resources. The Tide Went Out outlines the horrors that arise when we are forced to ask the question: ‘what happens when the water runs out?’
The pandemic draws nearer to Britain; shelters are hastily constructed across the country, but for whom? As the death toll booms and the populace finds themselves sacrificed for the sake of the elite, the cry for revolution rings out amidst the sirens.
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5218 5 256 pages, 190 x 130 mm Publishing February 2019
Maine’s savage portrayal of society on the brink of ruin is a cruel forerunner of a more pessimistic science fiction of the 1960s. This subversive novel shows that even the heroes may succumb to brutality as the world descends into a desperate scramble for the last shred of what it means to be human: survival.
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Menace of the Machine Edited by Mike Ashley
The End of the World and Other Catastrophes Edited by Mike Ashley
Technological advance is never straightforward. A man is murdered by an automaton built for chess. A computer system designed to arbitrate justice develops a taste for iron-fisted, fatal rulings. An AI governing what we now know as an internet wreaks havoc on society after removing all forms of censorship.
Sound the sirens! The end is here, and it comes in many forms in this new collection of apocalyptic short stories from the classic age of science fiction. Join humanity on the brink of destruction in 13 doom-laden visions from the 1890s to the 1960s, featuring rare tales from the Library’s vaults. Tales of plague seizing an over-polluted capital, a world engulfed in absolute darkness by some cosmic disaster, and of poignant dreams of a silent planet after the last echoes of humanity have died away.
Assembled with parts from the late 19th century to the 1960s, this new collection of classic stories warns of the possible threats, both comic and severe, of a world in which human and machine live side by side.
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5242 0 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm Publishing April 2019
A delightfully, and worryingly, prescient selection for today’s world in which robotic coexistence is passing with each day from speculation to reality.
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5273 4 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm Publishing May 2019
Extreme climate change, nuclear annihilation, comet strike; calamities self-inflicted and from beyond the steer of humankind vie to deal the last blow in this countdown from the first whisper of possible extinction to the Earth’s final sunrise.
Mike Ashley is the author and editor of more than a hundred books, and is one of the foremost historians of popular fiction. His books include Adventures in The Strand, Out of This World and The Age of Storytellers: British Popular Fiction Magazines 1880–1950. His multi-volume history of science fiction magazines is published by Liverpool University Press.
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Menace of the Machine Edited by Mike Ashley
The End of the World and Other Catastrophes Edited by Mike Ashley
Technological advance is never straightforward. A man is murdered by an automaton built for chess. A computer system designed to arbitrate justice develops a taste for iron-fisted, fatal rulings. An AI governing what we now know as an internet wreaks havoc on society after removing all forms of censorship.
Sound the sirens! The end is here, and it comes in many forms in this new collection of apocalyptic short stories from the classic age of science fiction. Join humanity on the brink of destruction in 13 doom-laden visions from the 1890s to the 1960s, featuring rare tales from the Library’s vaults. Tales of plague seizing an over-polluted capital, a world engulfed in absolute darkness by some cosmic disaster, and of poignant dreams of a silent planet after the last echoes of humanity have died away.
Assembled with parts from the late 19th century to the 1960s, this new collection of classic stories warns of the possible threats, both comic and severe, of a world in which human and machine live side by side.
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5242 0 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm Publishing April 2019
A delightfully, and worryingly, prescient selection for today’s world in which robotic coexistence is passing with each day from speculation to reality.
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5273 4 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm Publishing May 2019
Extreme climate change, nuclear annihilation, comet strike; calamities self-inflicted and from beyond the steer of humankind vie to deal the last blow in this countdown from the first whisper of possible extinction to the Earth’s final sunrise.
Mike Ashley is the author and editor of more than a hundred books, and is one of the foremost historians of popular fiction. His books include Adventures in The Strand, Out of This World and The Age of Storytellers: British Popular Fiction Magazines 1880–1950. His multi-volume history of science fiction magazines is published by Liverpool University Press.
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BRITISH LIBRARY TALES OF THE WEIRD
The Platform Edge
Doorway to Dilemma
Uncanny Tales of the Railways
Bewildering Tales of Dark Fantasy
Edited by Mike Ashley
Edited by Mike Ashley Howling down the tunnels comes a new collection showcasing the greatest stories of strange happenings on the tracks, many of which are republished here for the first time since their original departure.
The events which I purpose detailing are of so extraordinary a character that I am quite prepared to meet with an unusual amount of incredulity and scorn. Between horror and fantasy lies a world in which the inexplicable remains unsolved and the rational mind is assailed by impossible questions. Welcome to the realm of Dark Fantasy, where safe answers are beyond reach and accounts of unanswerable dilemma find their home.
Waiting beyond the barrier are ghostly travelling companions bent on disturbing the commutes of the living, a subway car disappearing into a different dimension without a trace, and a man’s greatest fears realized on the ghost train of a carnival. An express ticket to unforgettable journeys into the supernatural, from the open railways of Europe and America to the pressing dark of the tube. Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5203 1 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm Publishing January 2019
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5263 5 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm Publishing May 2019
Delving deep into the sub-genre, fiction expert Mike Ashley has gathered an unsettling mixture of twisted tales, encounters with logic-defying creatures and nightmarish fables certain to perplex, beguile and of course, entertain.
Mike Ashley is an internationally renowned expert on popular fiction of the 19th and 20th century with a superior collection of magazines and journals and an encyclopaedic knowledge of their contents. He has edited two previous anthologies in this series: Glimpses of the Unknown: Lost Ghost Stories and From the Depths and Other Strange Tales of the Sea.
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BRITISH LIBRARY TALES OF THE WEIRD
The Platform Edge
Doorway to Dilemma
Uncanny Tales of the Railways
Bewildering Tales of Dark Fantasy
Edited by Mike Ashley
Edited by Mike Ashley Howling down the tunnels comes a new collection showcasing the greatest stories of strange happenings on the tracks, many of which are republished here for the first time since their original departure.
The events which I purpose detailing are of so extraordinary a character that I am quite prepared to meet with an unusual amount of incredulity and scorn. Between horror and fantasy lies a world in which the inexplicable remains unsolved and the rational mind is assailed by impossible questions. Welcome to the realm of Dark Fantasy, where safe answers are beyond reach and accounts of unanswerable dilemma find their home.
Waiting beyond the barrier are ghostly travelling companions bent on disturbing the commutes of the living, a subway car disappearing into a different dimension without a trace, and a man’s greatest fears realized on the ghost train of a carnival. An express ticket to unforgettable journeys into the supernatural, from the open railways of Europe and America to the pressing dark of the tube. Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5203 1 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm Publishing January 2019
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5263 5 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm Publishing May 2019
Delving deep into the sub-genre, fiction expert Mike Ashley has gathered an unsettling mixture of twisted tales, encounters with logic-defying creatures and nightmarish fables certain to perplex, beguile and of course, entertain.
Mike Ashley is an internationally renowned expert on popular fiction of the 19th and 20th century with a superior collection of magazines and journals and an encyclopaedic knowledge of their contents. He has edited two previous anthologies in this series: Glimpses of the Unknown: Lost Ghost Stories and From the Depths and Other Strange Tales of the Sea.
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The Weird Tales of William Hope Hodgson Edited by Xavier Aldana Reyes
The Face in the Glass The Gothic Tales of Mary Elizabeth Braddon Edited by Greg Buzwell A young girl whose love for her fiancé continues even after her death; a sinister old lady with claw-like hands who cares little for the qualities of her companions provided they are young and full of life; and a haunted mirror that foretells of approaching death for those who gaze into its depths. These are just some of the haunting tales gathered together in this macabre collection of short stories.
I have tumbled upon one of the most peculiar cases of ‘haunting’—or devilment of some sort—that I have come against. Now listen. A splash of something huge resounds through the sea-fog. In the stillness of a dark room, some unspeakable evil is making its approach. This new selection offers the most chilling and unsettling of Hodgson’s short fiction, from encounters with abominations at sea to fireside tales of otherworldly forces from his inventive ‘occult detective’ character Carnacki, the ghost finder.
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5233 8 304 pages, 190 x 130 mm Publishing April 2019
William Hope Hodgson (1877–1918) is renowned as a master of nautical mystery and horror stories, which possess a unique authenticity due to Hodgson’s youth spent at sea and in the navy. He is also celebrated as the creator of the memorable occult detective character, Carnacki. Hodgson wrote many classic ghost and sea stories before his death near Ypres during the First World War.
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A master of conjuring atmosphere, when the horror inevitably arrives it is delivered with breathtaking pace and the author’s signature evocation of overwhelming panic.
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5208 6 272 pages, 190 x 130 mm Publishing February 2019
Reissued in the Tales of the Weird series and introduced by British Library curator Greg Buzwell, The Face in the Glass is the first selection of Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s supernatural short stories to be widely available in more than 100 years. By turns curious, sinister, haunting and terrifying, each tale explores the dark shadows beyond the rational world.
Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1835–1915) was a prominent and prolific Victorian novelist whose major works included Lady Audley’s Secret. She was the editor of the literary magazine The Mistletoe Bough, in which several of her short stories were first published.
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The Weird Tales of William Hope Hodgson Edited by Xavier Aldana Reyes
The Face in the Glass The Gothic Tales of Mary Elizabeth Braddon Edited by Greg Buzwell A young girl whose love for her fiancé continues even after her death; a sinister old lady with claw-like hands who cares little for the qualities of her companions provided they are young and full of life; and a haunted mirror that foretells of approaching death for those who gaze into its depths. These are just some of the haunting tales gathered together in this macabre collection of short stories.
I have tumbled upon one of the most peculiar cases of ‘haunting’—or devilment of some sort—that I have come against. Now listen. A splash of something huge resounds through the sea-fog. In the stillness of a dark room, some unspeakable evil is making its approach. This new selection offers the most chilling and unsettling of Hodgson’s short fiction, from encounters with abominations at sea to fireside tales of otherworldly forces from his inventive ‘occult detective’ character Carnacki, the ghost finder.
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5233 8 304 pages, 190 x 130 mm Publishing April 2019
William Hope Hodgson (1877–1918) is renowned as a master of nautical mystery and horror stories, which possess a unique authenticity due to Hodgson’s youth spent at sea and in the navy. He is also celebrated as the creator of the memorable occult detective character, Carnacki. Hodgson wrote many classic ghost and sea stories before his death near Ypres during the First World War.
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A master of conjuring atmosphere, when the horror inevitably arrives it is delivered with breathtaking pace and the author’s signature evocation of overwhelming panic.
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5208 6 272 pages, 190 x 130 mm Publishing February 2019
Reissued in the Tales of the Weird series and introduced by British Library curator Greg Buzwell, The Face in the Glass is the first selection of Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s supernatural short stories to be widely available in more than 100 years. By turns curious, sinister, haunting and terrifying, each tale explores the dark shadows beyond the rational world.
Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1835–1915) was a prominent and prolific Victorian novelist whose major works included Lady Audley’s Secret. She was the editor of the literary magazine The Mistletoe Bough, in which several of her short stories were first published.
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The Philosophy of Wine Ruth Ball
Hardback £9.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5278 9 112 pages, 200 x 130 mm 15 illustrations Publishing May 2019
Ruth Ball is the award-nominated author of Rebellious Spirits and, most recently, Rough Spirits and High Society (British Library, 2017). She is the founder of Alchemist Dreams, a company dedicated to handmade liqueurs that are blended to order.
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A companion volume to The Philosophy of . . . Beards and Coffee, this witty history of wine – its cultivation and enjoyment – sheds light on the rich traditions of wine from around the world. An apt gift for oenophiles everywhere, it includes chapters on the development of wine production, from the use of casks to bottles to the switch from feet to presses, as well as tracing the global shift of wine production from traditional wine-producing regions to emerging wine exporters. With a selective focus on unexpected facts and lesser-known characters connected with wine, from the Greek gods of wine to the monks who created Champagne and the ingenious ways French winemakers protected priceless vintages during wartime, this gift edition explores the historical influences that have shaped our drinking taste.
Cats in Medieval Manuscripts Kathleen Walker-Meikle
NEW EDITION Hardback with jacket £12.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5293 2 96 pages, 190 x 150 mm Colour illustrations throughout Publishing June 2019
Cats were illustrated in medieval manuscripts throughout the Middle Ages, often in exquisite detail and frequently accompanied by their natural prey, mice. Medieval cats were viewed as treasured pets, as fearsome mousers, as canny characters in fables, as associates of the Devil and as magical creatures. Featuring an array of fascinating illustrations from the British Library’s rich medieval collection, Cats in Medieval Manuscripts includes anecdotes about cats – both real and imaginary – to provide a fascinating picture of the life of the cat and its relationship with humans in the medieval world.
Kathleen Walker-Meikle completed her PhD at University College London on late medieval pet keeping. She is currently a research fellow at King’s College London and writes on medieval and early modern animals and medicine. She is also the author of Medieval Pets (2012) and Medieval Dogs (2013).
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The Philosophy of Wine Ruth Ball
Hardback £9.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5278 9 112 pages, 200 x 130 mm 15 illustrations Publishing May 2019
Ruth Ball is the award-nominated author of Rebellious Spirits and, most recently, Rough Spirits and High Society (British Library, 2017). She is the founder of Alchemist Dreams, a company dedicated to handmade liqueurs that are blended to order.
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A companion volume to The Philosophy of . . . Beards and Coffee, this witty history of wine – its cultivation and enjoyment – sheds light on the rich traditions of wine from around the world. An apt gift for oenophiles everywhere, it includes chapters on the development of wine production, from the use of casks to bottles to the switch from feet to presses, as well as tracing the global shift of wine production from traditional wine-producing regions to emerging wine exporters. With a selective focus on unexpected facts and lesser-known characters connected with wine, from the Greek gods of wine to the monks who created Champagne and the ingenious ways French winemakers protected priceless vintages during wartime, this gift edition explores the historical influences that have shaped our drinking taste.
Cats in Medieval Manuscripts Kathleen Walker-Meikle
NEW EDITION Hardback with jacket £12.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5293 2 96 pages, 190 x 150 mm Colour illustrations throughout Publishing June 2019
Cats were illustrated in medieval manuscripts throughout the Middle Ages, often in exquisite detail and frequently accompanied by their natural prey, mice. Medieval cats were viewed as treasured pets, as fearsome mousers, as canny characters in fables, as associates of the Devil and as magical creatures. Featuring an array of fascinating illustrations from the British Library’s rich medieval collection, Cats in Medieval Manuscripts includes anecdotes about cats – both real and imaginary – to provide a fascinating picture of the life of the cat and its relationship with humans in the medieval world.
Kathleen Walker-Meikle completed her PhD at University College London on late medieval pet keeping. She is currently a research fellow at King’s College London and writes on medieval and early modern animals and medicine. She is also the author of Medieval Pets (2012) and Medieval Dogs (2013).
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The Old Man’s Guide to Health and Longer Life John Hill
Taking to the Air Holmes & An Illustrated History Watson of Flight Lily Ford
A Miscellany
The Whole Art of Dress A Cavalry Officer
S C Roberts
A lifestyle guide to longevity and good health – from 1750. Writing in an age when the majority of men didn’t live to see their fiftieth birthday, John Hill provides practical advice on diet, exercise and lifestyle, including sleep and emotional health. Full of genuinely good advice, the book offers sage insights as well as ridiculous regimes – making it a perfect gift for a man of more mature years.
NEW EDITION Hardback £7.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5292 5 80 pages, 163 x 100 Publishing June 2019
John Hill was a mid-eighteenthcentury physician and actor, who published prolifically on the natural sciences.
The possibilities of flight have long fascinated us. Each innovation captivated a broad public, from those who gathered to witness winged medieval visionaries jumping from towers, to those who tuned in to watch the moon landings. Focusing on moments of great cultural impact, this book is a visual celebration of the wonder of flight. Hardback £25 ISBN 978 0 7123 5261 1 224 pages, 240 x 165 mm 150 colour illustrations Published September 2018
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First published in 1953, this classic book is one of the earliest and best studies of English literature’s most iconic characters. S.C. Roberts searches Conan Doyle’s stories for clues and develops biographies of the characters. Hardback £10 ISBN 978 0 7123 5216 1 160 pages, 190 x 130 mm Published September 2018
Part fashionable guide, part defence of dandyism, this manual for menswear was originally published in 1830. It advises on the nuances of men’s fashion, on how to perfect all elements of dress, from the elegant staple of cravatiana to the delightful whimsy of masquerade dress. Hardback £10 ISBN 978 0 7123 5271 0 128 pages, 200 x 130 mm 6 B&W illustrations Published September 2018
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The Old Man’s Guide to Health and Longer Life John Hill
Taking to the Air Holmes & An Illustrated History Watson of Flight Lily Ford
A Miscellany
The Whole Art of Dress A Cavalry Officer
S C Roberts
A lifestyle guide to longevity and good health – from 1750. Writing in an age when the majority of men didn’t live to see their fiftieth birthday, John Hill provides practical advice on diet, exercise and lifestyle, including sleep and emotional health. Full of genuinely good advice, the book offers sage insights as well as ridiculous regimes – making it a perfect gift for a man of more mature years.
NEW EDITION Hardback £7.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5292 5 80 pages, 163 x 100 Publishing June 2019
John Hill was a mid-eighteenthcentury physician and actor, who published prolifically on the natural sciences.
The possibilities of flight have long fascinated us. Each innovation captivated a broad public, from those who gathered to witness winged medieval visionaries jumping from towers, to those who tuned in to watch the moon landings. Focusing on moments of great cultural impact, this book is a visual celebration of the wonder of flight. Hardback £25 ISBN 978 0 7123 5261 1 224 pages, 240 x 165 mm 150 colour illustrations Published September 2018
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First published in 1953, this classic book is one of the earliest and best studies of English literature’s most iconic characters. S.C. Roberts searches Conan Doyle’s stories for clues and develops biographies of the characters. Hardback £10 ISBN 978 0 7123 5216 1 160 pages, 190 x 130 mm Published September 2018
Part fashionable guide, part defence of dandyism, this manual for menswear was originally published in 1830. It advises on the nuances of men’s fashion, on how to perfect all elements of dress, from the elegant staple of cravatiana to the delightful whimsy of masquerade dress. Hardback £10 ISBN 978 0 7123 5271 0 128 pages, 200 x 130 mm 6 B&W illustrations Published September 2018
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The Gothic Tales Shelf Life of H P Lovecraft Writers on Books Edited by Xavier Aldana Reyes
H P Lovecraft is best known for his tales of cosmic horror, in which unnameable nightmares torment the limits of human consciousness. This collection of Lovecraft’s stories is the first to concentrate on his Gothic writing and reveals how his weird vision mixes brilliantly with the trappings of earlier Gothic horror. Hardback £14.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5246 8 240 pages, 210 x 148 mm Published August 2018
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and Reading Alex Johnson
Books: reading, collecting and the housing of them has brought the booklover joy, and stress, for centuries. Fascinated writers have tried to capture the particular relationships we form with our library, and the desperate troubles we will undergo to preserve it. The many facets of bookmania are celebrated with sincerity and irreverence in this lively selection of essays, poems, lectures and commentaries.
A Literary Christmas
An Anthology
For as long as Christmas has been celebrated, poets and writers have sought to explore every aspect of it. A Literary Christmas is a seasonal anthology collecting poems, short stories and prose extracts by some of the greatest poets and writers in the English language. Hardback with jacket £12.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5276 5 152 pages, 210 x 149 mm Over 30 colour and B&W illustrations Published September 2018
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A World of Maps from the British Library Tom Harper
This is an atlas with a difference. It can help us to travel in a way that regular atlases do not, because by looking at old maps and getting to know their stories we can be transported back to the times in which they were made. This is the definitive printed showcase of the British Library’s extensive and unparalleled map collection. Hardback £30 ISBN 978 0 7123 5291 8 256 pages, 280 x 220 mm Over 100 colour illustrations Published October 2018
A History of America in 100 Maps Susan Schulten
Acclaimed historian Susan Schulten rexplores five centuries of American history through maps. From voyages of European discovery to the digital age, she reveals the many ways that maps have shaped history. Hardback £30 ISBN 978 0 7123 5217 8 256 pages, 280 x 220 mm 100 colour illustrations Published November 2018
Flexibound £10 ISBN 978 0 7123 5286 4 128 pages, 198 x 130 mm Published October 2018
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The Gothic Tales Shelf Life of H P Lovecraft Writers on Books Edited by Xavier Aldana Reyes
H P Lovecraft is best known for his tales of cosmic horror, in which unnameable nightmares torment the limits of human consciousness. This collection of Lovecraft’s stories is the first to concentrate on his Gothic writing and reveals how his weird vision mixes brilliantly with the trappings of earlier Gothic horror. Hardback £14.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5246 8 240 pages, 210 x 148 mm Published August 2018
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and Reading Alex Johnson
Books: reading, collecting and the housing of them has brought the booklover joy, and stress, for centuries. Fascinated writers have tried to capture the particular relationships we form with our library, and the desperate troubles we will undergo to preserve it. The many facets of bookmania are celebrated with sincerity and irreverence in this lively selection of essays, poems, lectures and commentaries.
A Literary Christmas
An Anthology
For as long as Christmas has been celebrated, poets and writers have sought to explore every aspect of it. A Literary Christmas is a seasonal anthology collecting poems, short stories and prose extracts by some of the greatest poets and writers in the English language. Hardback with jacket £12.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5276 5 152 pages, 210 x 149 mm Over 30 colour and B&W illustrations Published September 2018
Atlas
A World of Maps from the British Library Tom Harper
This is an atlas with a difference. It can help us to travel in a way that regular atlases do not, because by looking at old maps and getting to know their stories we can be transported back to the times in which they were made. This is the definitive printed showcase of the British Library’s extensive and unparalleled map collection. Hardback £30 ISBN 978 0 7123 5291 8 256 pages, 280 x 220 mm Over 100 colour illustrations Published October 2018
A History of America in 100 Maps Susan Schulten
Acclaimed historian Susan Schulten rexplores five centuries of American history through maps. From voyages of European discovery to the digital age, she reveals the many ways that maps have shaped history. Hardback £30 ISBN 978 0 7123 5217 8 256 pages, 280 x 220 mm 100 colour illustrations Published November 2018
Flexibound £10 ISBN 978 0 7123 5286 4 128 pages, 198 x 130 mm Published October 2018
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Medieval Illumination Manuscript Art in England and France 700–1200 Kathleen Doyle and Charlotte Denoël
Illuminated manuscripts from England and France are among the greatest masterpieces of medieval European art. This beautiful book showcases dozens of fine examples, some of which have never before bene exhibited and are rarely reproduced. Paperback £10 ISBN 978 0 7123 5212 3 176 pages, 255 x 190 mm Published October 2018
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Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms Art, Word, War
Edited by Claire Breay and Joanna Story
This richly illustrated book presents Anglo-Saxon England as the home of a highly sophisticated artistic and political culture, deeply connected with its continental neighbours. It charts a fascinating and dynamic period in early medieval history, bringing to life our understanding of these formative centuries.
The Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books
The Pocket Detective
100+ Puzzles
The Arsenal Stadium Mystery Leonard Gribble
Martin Edwards
Compiled by Kate Jackson
Paperback £14.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5221 5 Hardback £25 ISBN 978 0 7123 5696 1 304 pages, 210 x 148 mm
Flexibound £7.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5296 3 144 pages, 155 x 100 mm
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5226 0 256 pages, 190 x 130 mm
The Division Bell Mystery
The Belting Inheritance
The Colour of Murder
Ellen Wilkinson
Julian Symons
Julian Symons
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5241 3 256 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5232 1 240 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5227 7 256 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Hardback £40 ISBN 978 0 7123 5202 4 Paperback £25 ISBN 978 0 7123 5207 9 424 pages, 280 x 220 mm 160 colour illustrations Published October 2018
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Medieval Illumination Manuscript Art in England and France 700–1200 Kathleen Doyle and Charlotte Denoël
Illuminated manuscripts from England and France are among the greatest masterpieces of medieval European art. This beautiful book showcases dozens of fine examples, some of which have never before bene exhibited and are rarely reproduced. Paperback £10 ISBN 978 0 7123 5212 3 176 pages, 255 x 190 mm Published October 2018
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Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms Art, Word, War
Edited by Claire Breay and Joanna Story
This richly illustrated book presents Anglo-Saxon England as the home of a highly sophisticated artistic and political culture, deeply connected with its continental neighbours. It charts a fascinating and dynamic period in early medieval history, bringing to life our understanding of these formative centuries.
The Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books
The Pocket Detective
100+ Puzzles
The Arsenal Stadium Mystery Leonard Gribble
Martin Edwards
Compiled by Kate Jackson
Paperback £14.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5221 5 Hardback £25 ISBN 978 0 7123 5696 1 304 pages, 210 x 148 mm
Flexibound £7.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5296 3 144 pages, 155 x 100 mm
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5226 0 256 pages, 190 x 130 mm
The Division Bell Mystery
The Belting Inheritance
The Colour of Murder
Ellen Wilkinson
Julian Symons
Julian Symons
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5241 3 256 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5232 1 240 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5227 7 256 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Hardback £40 ISBN 978 0 7123 5202 4 Paperback £25 ISBN 978 0 7123 5207 9 424 pages, 280 x 220 mm 160 colour illustrations Published October 2018
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The Christmas Card Crime
Verdict of Twelve
Family Matters
Raymond Postgate
Anthony Rolls
and Other Stories
Sergeant Cluff Stands Firm
The Methods of Sergeant Cluff
Gil North
Gil North
Edited by Martin Edwards
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5247 5 256 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5674 9 256 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5669 5 256 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Paperback £7.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5646 6 176 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Paperback £7.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5647 3 176 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Murder by Matchlight
Scarweather
The Incredible Crime
Continental Crimes
Miraculous Mysteries
Edited by Martin Edwards
Edited by Martin Edwards
Paperback £8.99 978 0 7123 5679 4 352 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5673 2 352 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Anthony Rolls
Lois Austen-Leigh
E C R Lorac
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5222 2 256 pages, 190 x 130 mm
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A Cambridge Mystery
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5664 0 272 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5602 2 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm
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The Christmas Card Crime
Verdict of Twelve
Family Matters
Raymond Postgate
Anthony Rolls
and Other Stories
Sergeant Cluff Stands Firm
The Methods of Sergeant Cluff
Gil North
Gil North
Edited by Martin Edwards
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5247 5 256 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5674 9 256 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5669 5 256 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Paperback £7.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5646 6 176 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Paperback £7.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5647 3 176 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Murder by Matchlight
Scarweather
The Incredible Crime
Continental Crimes
Miraculous Mysteries
Edited by Martin Edwards
Edited by Martin Edwards
Paperback £8.99 978 0 7123 5679 4 352 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5673 2 352 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Anthony Rolls
Lois Austen-Leigh
E C R Lorac
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5222 2 256 pages, 190 x 130 mm
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Crime Classics
A Cambridge Mystery
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5664 0 272 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5602 2 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Crime Classics
33
Fire in the Thatch A Devon Mystery E C R Lorac
The Murder of My Aunt
Blood on the Tracks Railway Mysteries
Death Makes a Prophet
Richard Hull
Edited by Martin Edwards
John Bude
Seven Dead J Jefferson Farjeon
The Long Arm of the Law
Classic Police Stories Edited by Martin Edwards
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5260 4 240 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5280 2 240 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5270 3 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5691 6 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5688 6 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5687 9 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Excellent Intentions
Weekend at Thrackley
Bats in the Belfry
Calamity in Kent
Foreign Bodies
Richard Hull
Alan Melville
E C R Lorac
Somebody at the Door Raymond Postgate
John Rowland
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5201 7 240 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5211 6 240 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5255 0 240 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5235 2 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5783 8 272 pages, 190 x 130 mm
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Crime Classics
A London Mystery
Edited by Martin Edwards
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5699 2 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Crime Classics
35
Fire in the Thatch A Devon Mystery E C R Lorac
The Murder of My Aunt
Blood on the Tracks Railway Mysteries
Death Makes a Prophet
Richard Hull
Edited by Martin Edwards
John Bude
Seven Dead J Jefferson Farjeon
The Long Arm of the Law
Classic Police Stories Edited by Martin Edwards
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5260 4 240 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5280 2 240 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5270 3 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5691 6 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5688 6 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5687 9 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Excellent Intentions
Weekend at Thrackley
Bats in the Belfry
Calamity in Kent
Foreign Bodies
Richard Hull
Alan Melville
E C R Lorac
Somebody at the Door Raymond Postgate
John Rowland
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5201 7 240 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5211 6 240 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5255 0 240 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5235 2 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5783 8 272 pages, 190 x 130 mm
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Crime Classics
A London Mystery
Edited by Martin Edwards
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5699 2 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Crime Classics
35
Death in the Tunnel
The Secret of High Eldersham
The Poisoned Chocolates Case
The Sussex Downs Murder
The Cornish Coast Murder
The Lake District Murder
Miles Burton
Miles Burton
Anthony Berkeley
John Bude
John Bude
John Bude
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5641 1 224 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5609 1 272 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5653 4 272 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5796 8 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5715 9 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5716 6 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Death of a Busybody
The Dead Shall Be Murder Raised & Murder Underground Mavis Doriel Hay of a Quack
Death on the Riviera
The Cheltenham Square Murder
Portrait of a Murderer
John Bude
John Bude
Anne Meredith
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5637 4 224 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5648 0 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Hardback £14.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5245 1 Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5686 2 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm
George Bellairs
A Christmas Crime Story
George Bellairs
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5644 2 224 pages, 190 x 130 mm
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Crime Classics
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5652 7 352 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5725 8 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Crime Classics
37
Death in the Tunnel
The Secret of High Eldersham
The Poisoned Chocolates Case
The Sussex Downs Murder
The Cornish Coast Murder
The Lake District Murder
Miles Burton
Miles Burton
Anthony Berkeley
John Bude
John Bude
John Bude
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5641 1 224 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5609 1 272 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5653 4 272 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5796 8 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5715 9 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5716 6 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Death of a Busybody
The Dead Shall Be Murder Raised & Murder Underground Mavis Doriel Hay of a Quack
Death on the Riviera
The Cheltenham Square Murder
Portrait of a Murderer
John Bude
John Bude
Anne Meredith
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5637 4 224 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5648 0 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Hardback £14.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5245 1 Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5686 2 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm
George Bellairs
A Christmas Crime Story
George Bellairs
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5644 2 224 pages, 190 x 130 mm
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Crime Classics
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5652 7 352 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5725 8 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Crime Classics
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Serpents in Eden
Crimson Snow
Murder at the Manor
Silent Nights
Capital Crimes
Resorting to Murder
ed. Martin Edwards
ed. Martin Edwards
ed. Martin Edwards
ed. Martin Edwards
ed. Martin Edwards
ed. Martin Edwards
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5794 4 304 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5665 7 320 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 0993 6 384 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5610 7 256 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5749 4 320 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5748 7 320 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Murder of a Lady
Death of Anton
Quick Curtain
Thirteen Guests
The Z Murders
Alan Melville
Alan Melville
J Jefferson Farjeon
J Jefferson Farjeon
Mystery in White
Countryside Crimes
A Scottish Mystery
Winter Mysteries
Country House Mysteries
Christmas Mysteries
London Mysteries
Anthony Wynne
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5623 7 272 pages, 190 x 130 mm
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Crime Classics
Holiday Mysteries
J Jefferson Farjeon
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5788 3 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5789 0 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5601 5 256 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5621 3 256 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5770 8 256 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Crime Classics
39
Serpents in Eden
Crimson Snow
Murder at the Manor
Silent Nights
Capital Crimes
Resorting to Murder
ed. Martin Edwards
ed. Martin Edwards
ed. Martin Edwards
ed. Martin Edwards
ed. Martin Edwards
ed. Martin Edwards
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5794 4 304 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5665 7 320 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 0993 6 384 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5610 7 256 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5749 4 320 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5748 7 320 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Murder of a Lady
Death of Anton
Quick Curtain
Thirteen Guests
The Z Murders
Alan Melville
Alan Melville
J Jefferson Farjeon
J Jefferson Farjeon
Mystery in White
Countryside Crimes
A Scottish Mystery
Winter Mysteries
Country House Mysteries
Christmas Mysteries
London Mysteries
Anthony Wynne
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5623 7 272 pages, 190 x 130 mm
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Crime Classics
Holiday Mysteries
J Jefferson Farjeon
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5788 3 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5789 0 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5601 5 256 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5621 3 256 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5770 8 256 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Crime Classics
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Antidote to Venom
The Hog’s Back Mystery
Freeman Wills Crofts
Freeman Wills Crofts
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5779 1 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5797 5 336 pages, 190 x 130 mm
The 12.30 From Croydon
Murder in Piccadilly
The Female Detective
The Notting Hill Mystery
Charles Kingston
Andrew Forrester
Charles Warren Adams
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5745 6 256 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5795 1 320 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5759 3 336 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5626 8 256 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Mystery in the Channel
Death of an Airman
The Santa Klaus Murder
Death on the Cherwell
Freeman Wills Crofts
Freeman Wills Crofts
Christopher St John Sprigg
Mavis Doriel Hay
Mavis Doriel Hay
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5649 7 352 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5651 0 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5615 2 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5630 5 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5726 5 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm
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Crime Classics
A Scream in Soho John G Brandon
Crime Classics
41
Antidote to Venom
The Hog’s Back Mystery
Freeman Wills Crofts
Freeman Wills Crofts
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5779 1 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5797 5 336 pages, 190 x 130 mm
The 12.30 From Croydon
Murder in Piccadilly
The Female Detective
The Notting Hill Mystery
Charles Kingston
Andrew Forrester
Charles Warren Adams
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5745 6 256 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5795 1 320 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5759 3 336 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5626 8 256 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Mystery in the Channel
Death of an Airman
The Santa Klaus Murder
Death on the Cherwell
Freeman Wills Crofts
Freeman Wills Crofts
Christopher St John Sprigg
Mavis Doriel Hay
Mavis Doriel Hay
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5649 7 352 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5651 0 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5615 2 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5630 5 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5726 5 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm
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Crime Classics
A Scream in Soho John G Brandon
Crime Classics
41
BRITISH LIBRARY CLASSIC THRILLERS
BRITISH LIBRARY SCIENCE FICTION CLASSICS
Passage of Arms
A Kind of Anger
The Light of Day
Four-Sided Triangle
Shoot at the Moon
Eric Ambler
Eric Ambler
Eric Ambler
William F Temple
William F Temple
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5655 8 256 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5645 9 256 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5650 3 256 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5231 4 304 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5256 7 240 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Moonrise
Lost Mars
The End of the Web The Last Best Friend
The Golden Age of Lunar Adventures
The Golden Age of the Red Planet
George Sims
George Sims
Edited and introduced by Mike Ashley
Edited and introduced by Mike Ashley
Paperback £7.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5682 4 192 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Paperback £7.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5684 8 192 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5275 8 352 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5240 6 304 pages, 190 x 130 mm
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Classic Thrillers
Science Fiction Classics
43
BRITISH LIBRARY CLASSIC THRILLERS
BRITISH LIBRARY SCIENCE FICTION CLASSICS
Passage of Arms
A Kind of Anger
The Light of Day
Four-Sided Triangle
Shoot at the Moon
Eric Ambler
Eric Ambler
Eric Ambler
William F Temple
William F Temple
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5655 8 256 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5645 9 256 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5650 3 256 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5231 4 304 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5256 7 240 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Moonrise
Lost Mars
The End of the Web The Last Best Friend
The Golden Age of Lunar Adventures
The Golden Age of the Red Planet
George Sims
George Sims
Edited and introduced by Mike Ashley
Edited and introduced by Mike Ashley
Paperback £7.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5682 4 192 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Paperback £7.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5684 8 192 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5275 8 352 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5240 6 304 pages, 190 x 130 mm
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Classic Thrillers
Science Fiction Classics
43
BRITISH LIBRARY TALES OF THE WEIRD
From the Depths and Other Strange Tales of the Sea Edited by Mike Ashley
Haunted Houses Two Novels by Charlotte Riddell
Edited by Andrew Smith
BRITISH LIBRARY CHILDREN’S BOOKS
Glimpses of the Unknown
Lost Ghost Stories
My Book of Stories
My Book of Stories
My Book of Stories
Deborah Patterson
Deborah Patterson
Paperback £9.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5635 0 96 pages, 200 x 170 mm
Paperback £9.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5642 8 96 pages, 200 x 170 mm
Paperback £9.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5643 5 96 pages, 200 x 170 mm
My Book of Stories
Great Voyages
Around the World in 80 Maps
Deborah Patterson
Deborah Patterson
Paperback £9.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5634 3 96 pages, 200 x 170 mm
Hardback £14.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5285 7 96 pages, 280 x 220 mm
Revolutions
Revolutions
Clare Hibbert
Clare Hibbert
Hardback £12.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5670 1 64 pages, 280 x 210 mm
Hardback £12.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5680 0 64 pages, 280 x 210 mm
Write Your Own Adventure Stories
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5251 2 354 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Mortal Echoes
Spirits of the Season
Encounters with the End
Edited by Mike Ashley
Clare Hibbert
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5266 6 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Edited by Tanya Kirk
Moments in History that Changed the World
44
Daring Adventurers From James Cook to Gertrude Bell
Christmas Hauntings
Edited by Greg Buzwell
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5281 9 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Write Your Own Myths
Deborah Patterson
Write Your Own Shakespearean Tales Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5236 9 320 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Write Your Own Fairy Tales
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5252 9 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Tales of the Weird
Hardback £14.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5693 0 96 pages, 280 x 220 mm
Beliefs and Ideas that Changed the World
Children’s Books
45
BRITISH LIBRARY TALES OF THE WEIRD
From the Depths and Other Strange Tales of the Sea Edited by Mike Ashley
Haunted Houses Two Novels by Charlotte Riddell
Edited by Andrew Smith
BRITISH LIBRARY CHILDREN’S BOOKS
Glimpses of the Unknown
Lost Ghost Stories
My Book of Stories
My Book of Stories
My Book of Stories
Deborah Patterson
Deborah Patterson
Paperback £9.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5635 0 96 pages, 200 x 170 mm
Paperback £9.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5642 8 96 pages, 200 x 170 mm
Paperback £9.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5643 5 96 pages, 200 x 170 mm
My Book of Stories
Great Voyages
Around the World in 80 Maps
Deborah Patterson
Deborah Patterson
Paperback £9.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5634 3 96 pages, 200 x 170 mm
Hardback £14.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5285 7 96 pages, 280 x 220 mm
Revolutions
Revolutions
Clare Hibbert
Clare Hibbert
Hardback £12.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5670 1 64 pages, 280 x 210 mm
Hardback £12.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5680 0 64 pages, 280 x 210 mm
Write Your Own Adventure Stories
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5251 2 354 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Mortal Echoes
Spirits of the Season
Encounters with the End
Edited by Mike Ashley
Clare Hibbert
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5266 6 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Edited by Tanya Kirk
Moments in History that Changed the World
44
Daring Adventurers From James Cook to Gertrude Bell
Christmas Hauntings
Edited by Greg Buzwell
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5281 9 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Write Your Own Myths
Deborah Patterson
Write Your Own Shakespearean Tales Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5236 9 320 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Write Your Own Fairy Tales
Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5252 9 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Tales of the Weird
Hardback £14.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5693 0 96 pages, 280 x 220 mm
Beliefs and Ideas that Changed the World
Children’s Books
45
Art and Design
The Art and History of Calligraphy Hardback £25 ISBN 978 0 7123 5668 8
Buddhism Illuminated Manuscript Art from Southeast Asia Hardback £50 ISBN 978 0 7123 5206 2
Graven Images The Art of the Woodcut Hardback £12.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5672 5
The Paper Zoo Hardback £25 ISBN 978 0 7123 5743 2
Soho The Heart of Bohemian London Paperback £10 ISBN 978 0 7123 5657 2
Gift/Humour
The Book of the British Library Hardback £25 ISBN 978 0 7123 5837 8 Censored
Peonies and Pomegranates Botanic Illustrations from Asia Hardback £14.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 0974 5
Writing Britain’s Ruins Hardback £30 ISBN 978 0 7123 0978 3
Astrology in Medieval Manuscripts Hardback £12.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5210 9
Magic in Medieval Manuscripts Hardback £12.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5205 5
Food Fights & Culture Wars Hardback £20 ISBN 978 0 7123 5658 9
A History of Children’s Books in 100 Books Hardback £25 ISBN 978 0 7123 5698 5
A Book of Book Lists A Bibliophile’s Compendium Paperback £7.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5225 3
The Cocktail Book Hardback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5690 9
The Gentleman’s Art of Dressing with Economy Hardback £7.95 ISBN 978 0 7123 5886 6
The Philosophy of Beards Hardback £7.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5766 1
Medieval Monsters Hardback £10 ISBN 978 0 7123 5790 6
Persuading the People Hardback £25 ISBN 978 0 7123 5654 1
The Philosophy of Coffee Brian Williams Hardback £9.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5230 7
Physical Training Simplified The Whole Man Considered Hardback £7.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5683 1
Bloomsbury Beyond the Establishment Paperback £10 ISBN 978 0 7123 5656 5
Camden Town Dreams of Another London Paperback £10 ISBN 978 0 7123 5694 7
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History
Selected Backlist
Russian Revolution: Hope, Tragedy, Myths Hardback £40 ISBN 978 0 7123 5677 0
Tudor Monarchs Lives in Letters Hardback £14.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5774 6
Censored A Literary History of Subversion & Control Hardback £25 ISBN 978 0 7123 5689 3
James Cook The Voyages Hardback £40 ISBN 978 0 7123 5295 6 Paperback £25 ISBN 978 0 7123 5290 1
Fashion Illustration in Britain Society and the Seasons Hardback £25 ISBN 978 0 7123 5200 0
Lines in the Ice Hardback £25 ISBN 978 0 7123 5606 0
Picturing India Hardback £30 ISBN 978 0 7123 5695 4
Rough Spirits and High Society The Culture of Drink Hardback £20 ISBN 978 0 7123 5215 4
Warfare in Medieval Manuscripts Hardback £12.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5605 3
Decadence A Literary Anthology Hardback £20 ISBN 978 0 7123 5663 3
Literature
Selected Backlist
47
Art and Design
The Art and History of Calligraphy Hardback £25 ISBN 978 0 7123 5668 8
Buddhism Illuminated Manuscript Art from Southeast Asia Hardback £50 ISBN 978 0 7123 5206 2
Graven Images The Art of the Woodcut Hardback £12.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5672 5
The Paper Zoo Hardback £25 ISBN 978 0 7123 5743 2
Soho The Heart of Bohemian London Paperback £10 ISBN 978 0 7123 5657 2
Gift/Humour
The Book of the British Library Hardback £25 ISBN 978 0 7123 5837 8 Censored
Peonies and Pomegranates Botanic Illustrations from Asia Hardback £14.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 0974 5
Writing Britain’s Ruins Hardback £30 ISBN 978 0 7123 0978 3
Astrology in Medieval Manuscripts Hardback £12.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5210 9
Magic in Medieval Manuscripts Hardback £12.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5205 5
Food Fights & Culture Wars Hardback £20 ISBN 978 0 7123 5658 9
A History of Children’s Books in 100 Books Hardback £25 ISBN 978 0 7123 5698 5
A Book of Book Lists A Bibliophile’s Compendium Paperback £7.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5225 3
The Cocktail Book Hardback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5690 9
The Gentleman’s Art of Dressing with Economy Hardback £7.95 ISBN 978 0 7123 5886 6
The Philosophy of Beards Hardback £7.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5766 1
Medieval Monsters Hardback £10 ISBN 978 0 7123 5790 6
Persuading the People Hardback £25 ISBN 978 0 7123 5654 1
The Philosophy of Coffee Brian Williams Hardback £9.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5230 7
Physical Training Simplified The Whole Man Considered Hardback £7.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5683 1
Bloomsbury Beyond the Establishment Paperback £10 ISBN 978 0 7123 5656 5
Camden Town Dreams of Another London Paperback £10 ISBN 978 0 7123 5694 7
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History
Selected Backlist
Russian Revolution: Hope, Tragedy, Myths Hardback £40 ISBN 978 0 7123 5677 0
Tudor Monarchs Lives in Letters Hardback £14.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5774 6
Censored A Literary History of Subversion & Control Hardback £25 ISBN 978 0 7123 5689 3
James Cook The Voyages Hardback £40 ISBN 978 0 7123 5295 6 Paperback £25 ISBN 978 0 7123 5290 1
Fashion Illustration in Britain Society and the Seasons Hardback £25 ISBN 978 0 7123 5200 0
Lines in the Ice Hardback £25 ISBN 978 0 7123 5606 0
Picturing India Hardback £30 ISBN 978 0 7123 5695 4
Rough Spirits and High Society The Culture of Drink Hardback £20 ISBN 978 0 7123 5215 4
Warfare in Medieval Manuscripts Hardback £12.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5605 3
Decadence A Literary Anthology Hardback £20 ISBN 978 0 7123 5663 3
Literature
Selected Backlist
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Audio
The Ghost Stories of M R James Hardback £12.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5205 5
The Haunted Library Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5604 6
Lost in a Pyramid Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5617 6
Horror: A Literary History Hardback £20 ISBN 978 0 7123 5608 4
Night in the Front Line And Other Second World War Stories Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5697 8
Out of the Deep And Other Supernatural Tales Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5675 6
The Prisoner’s Defence And Other First World War Stories Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5671 8
Science Fiction A Literary History Hardback £20 ISBN 978 0 7123 5692 3
Silver Bullets Classic Werewolf Stories Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5220 8
The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Tales Hardback £12.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5754 8
The Writer Abroad Paperback £12.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5787 6
Charting the Oceans Paperback £14.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5616 9
London: A Life in Maps Paperback £14.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5607 7
Mapping the Heavens Hardback £14.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5265 9
Maps and the 20th Century: Drawing the Line Hardback £40 ISBN 978 0 7123 5662 6
Sea Monsters on Medieval and Renaissance Maps Paperback £14.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5771 5
British Bird Sounds Two CDs £16 inc. VAT ISBN 978 0 7123 0512 9
Dawn Chorus CD £10 inc. VAT ISBN 978 0 7123 0520 4
Maps
A History of the 20th Century in 100 Maps Hardback £25 ISBN 978 0 7123 5856 9
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London: A History in Maps Hardback £30 ISBN 978 0 7123 5879 8
Selected Backlist
Selected Backlist
49
Audio
The Ghost Stories of M R James Hardback £12.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5205 5
The Haunted Library Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5604 6
Lost in a Pyramid Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5617 6
Horror: A Literary History Hardback £20 ISBN 978 0 7123 5608 4
Night in the Front Line And Other Second World War Stories Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5697 8
Out of the Deep And Other Supernatural Tales Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5675 6
The Prisoner’s Defence And Other First World War Stories Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5671 8
Science Fiction A Literary History Hardback £20 ISBN 978 0 7123 5692 3
Silver Bullets Classic Werewolf Stories Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5220 8
The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Tales Hardback £12.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5754 8
The Writer Abroad Paperback £12.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5787 6
Charting the Oceans Paperback £14.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5616 9
London: A Life in Maps Paperback £14.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5607 7
Mapping the Heavens Hardback £14.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5265 9
Maps and the 20th Century: Drawing the Line Hardback £40 ISBN 978 0 7123 5662 6
Sea Monsters on Medieval and Renaissance Maps Paperback £14.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5771 5
British Bird Sounds Two CDs £16 inc. VAT ISBN 978 0 7123 0512 9
Dawn Chorus CD £10 inc. VAT ISBN 978 0 7123 0520 4
Maps
A History of the 20th Century in 100 Maps Hardback £25 ISBN 978 0 7123 5856 9
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London: A History in Maps Hardback £30 ISBN 978 0 7123 5879 8
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Lovecraftian fiction, with its potential to redefine the role of humanity within the universe and its promise of great monsters from beyond, has been incredibly influential for writers the world over. The Irish Times These short tales of sheer horror have far more impact … I think it’s safe to say already that I’ll be recommending the whole collection when I finish it. Fiction Fan
Included in Crimesquad’s 2018 Summer Top Ten
As featured in The Sunday Times Crime Club and The Times Diary
Hugely enjoyable for its period detail. Sunday Express
What makes the novel so readable is its depiction of life in the House of Commons ... [Wilkinson’s] affectionately satirical insider’s view … goes some way to solving one of the biggest and most urgent of current mysteries: what on earth makes our politicians tick? Daily Telegraph
The Arsenal Stadium Mystery is an unusual and inventive detective story that works murder and intrigue into a setting left largely untouched by the majority of other crime authors … It features a seemingly unique method of killing, an insightful detective and plenty of viable suspects, and it is another worthy addition to the British Library’s excellent Crime Classics series. Nudge Book A well paced novel with an helpful and informative introduction from Martin Edwards, this is to be recommended to even the most football resistant mystery fan. Northern Reader I marvel at the grey matter somersaulting that goes on for everyone involved! Bookphace
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Press Coverage Highlights
As one of the first female cabinet ministers, she brings an easy familiarity with Westminster to her only crime novel. Daily Mail For anyone who is interested in the House of Commons, but also likes a truly good yarn, this story, written in 1932, fits the bill brilliantly … here is a well-constructed, imaginative take on the classic-era murder. On Magazine A neat little ‘locked room mystery’ which combines politics, finances, and life during the Great Depression. Red Lips and Bibliomaniacs
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Lovecraftian fiction, with its potential to redefine the role of humanity within the universe and its promise of great monsters from beyond, has been incredibly influential for writers the world over. The Irish Times These short tales of sheer horror have far more impact … I think it’s safe to say already that I’ll be recommending the whole collection when I finish it. Fiction Fan
Included in Crimesquad’s 2018 Summer Top Ten
As featured in The Sunday Times Crime Club and The Times Diary
Hugely enjoyable for its period detail. Sunday Express
What makes the novel so readable is its depiction of life in the House of Commons ... [Wilkinson’s] affectionately satirical insider’s view … goes some way to solving one of the biggest and most urgent of current mysteries: what on earth makes our politicians tick? Daily Telegraph
The Arsenal Stadium Mystery is an unusual and inventive detective story that works murder and intrigue into a setting left largely untouched by the majority of other crime authors … It features a seemingly unique method of killing, an insightful detective and plenty of viable suspects, and it is another worthy addition to the British Library’s excellent Crime Classics series. Nudge Book A well paced novel with an helpful and informative introduction from Martin Edwards, this is to be recommended to even the most football resistant mystery fan. Northern Reader I marvel at the grey matter somersaulting that goes on for everyone involved! Bookphace
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Press Coverage Highlights
As one of the first female cabinet ministers, she brings an easy familiarity with Westminster to her only crime novel. Daily Mail For anyone who is interested in the House of Commons, but also likes a truly good yarn, this story, written in 1932, fits the bill brilliantly … here is a well-constructed, imaginative take on the classic-era murder. On Magazine A neat little ‘locked room mystery’ which combines politics, finances, and life during the Great Depression. Red Lips and Bibliomaniacs
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