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A. C. Benson, Algernon Blackwood, Arthur Machen, Christianna Brand
Shadows Over Cymru

From the peaks of Eryri to dramatic coastlines, misty valleys and haunted mines, Wales is a land whose myth and folklore has long been reflected in a thriving storytelling tradition, with the dragons and …

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Jeremy Black
A History of Roads in 100 Maps

The major form of travel throughout history has been roadways. And while humanity has traversed these roadways on foot, by horse or in mechanical vehicles, there is the common theme of a particular route;…

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Amy Bloom, Virginia Woolf, Diana Gardner, Dorothy Parker
Stories for Lovers

British Library Women Writers

New anthology in the Women Writers series, including a diverse and international range of stories from well-known and forgotten female writers, published from the 1920s through to 2000.An older couple rem…

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Ramsey Campbell,
The Show Goes On

To celebrate the eightieth birthday of one of Britain's greatest living horror writers, Jeremy Dyson (of The League of Gentlemen fame) selects his favourite short stories from all stages of his literary h…

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Carol Carnac
When the Devil Was Sick

British Library Crime Classics

This gripping story draws on superstition and the supernatural, hideously dysfunctional families and the world of amateur boxing. Carol Carnac, who also writes under the pen name ECR Lorac, is a favourite…

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Alain Dorémieux, J. -H. Rosny the Elder, Judith Gautier, Maurice Level
Danse Macabre

British Library Tales of the Weird

Spurned lovers return from the grave to haunt their partners, ghost ships materialise on the sea, a bird's eerie cry lures the unsuspecting to their deaths in a marsh... Welcome to the unsettling world of…

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Elizabeth Drury
Hotcockles and Twittle-Twattle

Have you ever lent a bedpresser (a heavy lazy fellow) a muckender (handkerchief)? Or felt your mind skimbleskamble (wander) in the company of an abecedarian (one who teaches the alphabet)?With the publica…

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Alice du Parcq
Philosophy of Perfume

British Library Philosophies

Perfume is intoxicating: a wearable scent journey, a cultural touchpoint, a piece of art and design, and a deep expression of individuality. You can be nine or ninety, tall or small, wearing simple rosewa…

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Winifred Duke
Black Mirror

British Library Tales of the Weird

In the dock stood a girl, but could she be the one who had lately entered and was seated between her female companions?... Even the judge, sitting in Mr. Justice Deidpole''s seat, was unfamiliar, a wraith…

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Travis Elborough
The Philosophy of Vinyl

British Library Philosophies

Vinyl is back! For some, it never really went away. But whether you are a life-long aficionado, a penitent former CD head or recent convert to the format, The Philosophy of Vinyl is a book aimed at enhanc…

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Eleanor Farjeon, Jeanette Winterson, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Patricia Highsmith
Stories for the 12 Days of Christmas

British Library Women Writers

In medieval times, Christmas was not a single day but a twelve-day festival incorporating saints' days and feast days, beginning on December 25th and ending on January 5th. It was a structured time of cel…

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Susan Gilruth
Sweet Revenge

British Library Crime Classics

From the moment that Liane "Lee" Crauford and her husband Bill arrive in the Cornish fishing village of Poltruan, it's obvious that something is wrong. There's a storm brewing off the coast and …

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Cyril Hare, Edmund Crispin, G. K. Chesterton, H. C. Bailey
Puzzles of the Parish

British Library Crime Classics

"I think that it is desirable to discuss the affair - here, in the room in which the Bishop's body was found."A pernicious parson outwits the thieves of a priceless chalice from the parish treas…

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Kate Jackson
The Golden Age of Classic Crime Quiz Book

You may know your Marple from your Maigret, your Christie from your Chandler and your Wimsey from your Wexford, but just how much of a real classic crime expert are you?This beautifully illustrated and pa…

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Alex Johnson
When Books Go Bad

The literary life isn't just about curling up with a good book and a cuppa, it's also a world where Lord Byron calls John Keats' work " piss-a-bed poetry", spaniels eat the first drafts of maste…

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Dorothy L. Sayers, E. C. Bentley, Michael Gilbert,
Eat, Drink and Be Murdered

British Library Crime Classics

A mouth-watering feast of crime fiction, including stories of mushroom murders, brown bread spread with bacillus botulinus, and tales in which the identity of killers is proved by a purchase of fillet ste…

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Gerry Smyth
Tara of the Kings

Irish mythology comprises a rich and diverse body of stories accumulated over thousands of years in a variety of oral and literary forms. The stories reach back into pre-history, telling of the island's '…

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Agatha Christie

Agatha Christie is the undisputed Queen of Crime; her popularity has remained undiminished since her death 50 years ago. Granted unprecedented access to the Christie Archive, and drawing on the perspectiv…

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Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms

In 2018, the British Library staged a landmark exhibition, the largest ever to deal exclusively with Anglo-Saxon England. Presenting over 180 objects, the exhibition and its book were a critical and comme…

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