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With a teaching cohort including esteemed writers such as Dorothy L Sayers, Celia Fremlin, Michael Innes and the commanding Arthur Conan Doyle, this new anthology offers an education in the beguiling art of mystery writing.

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Over the past 2000 years London has developed from a small town, fitting snugly within its walls, into one of the world's largest and most dynamic cities. This book illustrates and helps to explain the transformation.

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This exquisite book builds on ongoing trends for re-telling classical and medieval stories from the perspective of female characters. Powerful tales are presented alongside some of the most exquisite examples of art to survive from the eighth to the sixteenth centuries.

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In this beautifully illustrated book, Peter Whitfield reveals some of the ways in which the structure of the universe has been conceived, explained and depicted. This new edition is updated to include a wider range of stunning maps of the skies in full colour, including imagery from the latest voyages of space exploration.

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Through a selection of detailed expert essays and some 40 spotlight studies, Medieval Womenreveals a rich and complex picture of their world, full of colourful characters and intriguing stories. This title accompanies the British Library Exhibition and showcases incredible items from the Library's archive and major European collections.

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An original collection of London mysteries from the Golden Age of crime curated by award winning editor, Martin Edwards.Authors include Arthur Conan Doyle, John Dickson Carr, Josephine Bell, Anthony Berkeley, Margery Allingham, Henry Wade and many more.

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Together these stories demonstrate the range and high accomplishment of the classic British impossible crime story over more than half a century.

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The first outing for R. Austin Freeman in the series is one of his finest books, first published in 1930.

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First published in 1956, this classic mystery leaps out of rarity to join the British Library Crime Classics series. Inspector McDonald ventures abroad into Ally occupied Vienna on this busmans holiday.

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This new collection summons stories from the eras of witchcraft, the English Civil War, tall-ship high seas exploration and ante-revolution New England, with contributions by M P Shiel, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Elizabeth Gaskell, Mary Shelley and many more.

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Pulp tales of alien forces emerging from the ice and a battle between hunter and invisible man-eating duck creature drift alongside modern horror from indigenous Arctic voices to show the extent and endurance of the lure of these sublime landscapes.

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A collection of 14 vintage mysteries from the likes of Arthur Conan Doyle, GK Chesterton, Anthony Berkeley, Phyllis Bentley among others.

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Following in the wake of the landmark anthology Celtic Weird (2022), Johnny Mains returns with a hoard of tales from two centuries of Scotlands rich literary past.

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An eclectic mix of crime stories written over half a century. From a tale of poison-pen letters tearing apart a village community to a macabre mystery by Arthur Conan Doyle, the stories collected here reveal the dark truths hidden in an assortment of rural paradises.

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Published to mark the 400th anniversary of the book's original publication, this facsimile edition faithfully reproduces one of the finest copies held in the British Library collections.

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The many facets of book-mania are pondered and celebrated with both sincerity and irreverence in this lively selection of essays, poems, lectures and commentaries ranging from the 16th to the 20th century.

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'The death was an odd one, it was true; but there was after all no very clear reason to assume it was anything but natural.' First published in 1943, Raymond Postgate's wartime murder mystery combines thrilling detection with rich characters and a fascinating depiction of life on the home front.

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The next title in the British Library Women Writers series that now includes three anthologies. It includes a diverse range of stories from well-known and forgotten female writers, published from the early 1910s through to the late 1980s.

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In the mid-nineteenth century, public fascination withspiritualism surged. Thisnew anthology collecting tales of sances, spiritsummoning and spiritual phenomena features stories from literary legends Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie and Florence Marryat, amongst others with notes tracing three key cultural phases of ghostly obsession.

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First published in 1973 but written in the vintage mystery mode, Lettice Cooper uses her literary sensibilities to deliver a strong detective story with a well-brewed psychological depth.

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Gribble's unique mystery, featuring the actual Arsenal squad of 1939, sends Inspector Anthony Slade into the world of professional football to investigate a case of deadly foul play on and off the pitch.

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Now in paperback, this stunningly illustrated book draws on the unparalleled collections of the British Library, as well as numerous world-leading institutions, to highlight 76 important, expressive and individual examples of calligraphy.

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Mark the passing of the days with this delightfully illustrated Almanac.

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Scottish fictional counterpart to Virginia Woolf's feminist essay 'A Room of One's Own'.