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Chill Tidings
In this glittering new clothbound edition of the beloved Christmas chiller, the gifts are unwrapped, the feast has been consumed and the fire is well fed – but the ghosts are still hungry. Chill … [lees verder]
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 … [lees verder]
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 … [lees verder]
Hotcockles and Twittletwattle
Have you ever loaned a bedpresser (a heavy lazy fellow) a muckender (handkerchief)? Or felt your mind skimble-skamble (wander) in the company of an abecedarian (one who teaches the alphabet)? First … [lees verder]
Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights First Edition Facsimile (1847) in a two-volume edition, with Poems by Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell (1846) Step into the wild, windswept world of the Yorkshire moors with this … [lees verder]
Eat, Drink and Be Murdered
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 … [lees verder]
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 … [lees verder]
Danse Macabre
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 … [lees verder]