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Regarded as one of the great Carr/Dickson locked-room mysteries among Carr connoisseurs, one of the highest-rated authors of the genre. The Ten Teacups features one of his famous series detectives Henry Merrivale (previously appearing in The White Priory Murders & returning in The Judas Window in Autumn 2025). Set in Henry Merrivale's stomping ground of central London.

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The spiritual successor to the popular Tales of the Weird anthology The Haunted Trail. This collection takes the reader to wilder spaces and into some more modern horror, weird pieces hailing from 18792014. Supported and championed by the cult multimedia powerhouse Weird Walk, this volume is ready to pitch any reader's holiday reading into the unknown.

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G. B. Stern's writing perfectly crafts an engaging tragicomedy, lacing farce and absurdity into compelling psychological drama. A darkly entertaining look at a non-traditional family structure in the 1930s and unapologetic women. The next title in the British Library Women Writers series which has grown to more than 25 titles and several anthologies.

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The spiritual successor to the popular Tales of the Weird anthology Queens of the Abyss, published in 2020. An anthology delivering one of the core missions of the Tales of the Weird series bringing unjustly forgotten authors of the genre back into the limelight. Featuring thorough notes by Mike Ashley on the fascinating lives and publishing history of these Queens of Pulp.

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In this highly original work Jeremy Black, one of world's leading military and cartographic historians, shows how fundamental maps were to the conflict as he charts its historical sweep across each of the major theatres.

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Accompanies the British Library PACCAR 2 exhibition opening September 27th 2024, beautifully illustrated with artefacts from the British Library, many specially photographed for this publication.

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The Magna Carta is one of the most celebrated documents in English history and one of the British Library's greatest treasures. This work explores the context in which Magna Carta was issued to discover what it really meant to its creators and how it came to be an iconic historical document. This updated edition includes full colour illustrations.

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Medieval Monsters shows how strange creatures sparked artists' imaginations to remarkable heights. Half-human hybrids of land and sea mingle with bewitching demons, blemmyae, cyclops and multi-headed beasts of nightmare and comic grotesques. Over 100 wondrous and terrifying images offer a fascinating insight into the medieval mind.

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Chief Inspector Brett Nightingale and Sergeant Beddoes find the body of Princess Olga Karukhin, who fled from Russia at the time of the Revolution. Taking place in the three days leading up to Christmas, Nightingale's enquiry takes him to a gramophone shop and a jewellers, culminating in the wrapping of the mystery on Christmas Eve.

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Continuing the thematic strand of the successful and proven British Library 100 Maps series. This new volume traces the fully international history of railways from their beginnings in the north-west of England through to the inter-continental lines of today.

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A car hurtles down the driveway of a luxury villa in Switzerland. The driver is a young woman, Lucia Bernardi. Inside the house, police find the body of her lover. The dead man, an Iraqi refugee, has been tortured and killed and Lucia has vanished into hiding.

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The eccentric Blampignon embarks on a thrilling race to discover the truth in one of John Budes rarest and most spirited mystery novels.

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This intricate mystery from a classic writer is set in a superbly evoked London of the 1930s.

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In this collection, featuring stories from the 1880s to the 1960s, we are taken to the remote future and back to the distant past. We are trapped in an eternal loop and met with visitors and objects from the future. We come face to face with our past selves, and experience the chaos of living out of sync with everyone else in the universe.

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Accompanying the largest ever display of the British Library's Buddhist treasures, Buddhism introduces the history, philosophy, geographical spread and practices of Buddhism, exploring its relevance in the modern world.

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In this volume, Johnny Mains dives into the archives to unearth a hoard of twenty-one enthralling tales imbued with elements of Celtic folklore, ranging from the 1820s to the 1980s and including three weird lost gems translated from Gaelic.

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A stocking-filler-sized compilation of Christmas lore, revealing the intriguing origins of the traditional festivities. Forty short pieces on individual traditions are each accompanied by charming vintage illustrations from the British Library's collection of Christmas books, cards and ephemera.

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After four and a half years spent recording the dictation of one of history's greatest leaders, Elizabeth Nel decided to record events in her own words. At first resisted by Churchill, her astonishing memoir was eventually published in 1958, and remains a fascinating tale of tirelessness and tenacity in the face of national adversity.

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Presenting fourteen stories from ranging from the 1909 through to the 1980s, this new anthology celebrates a selection of beloved Welsh authors such as Cardiffs Roald Dahl and Abergavennys Ethel Lina White, as well as lesser-known yet highly skilled writers such as Cledwyn Hughes and Jack Griffith.

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Crimson Snow brings together a dozen vintage crime stories set in winter

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In this new collection, Elizabeth Dearnley revives a sinister troupe of uncannily animated figures from tales across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, by authors including E T A Hoffmann, Angela Carter, Vernon Lee, Algernon Blackwood and Rosemary Timperley.

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The eponymous nosy parker Miss Ethel Tither, who has made herself deeply unpopular by going out of her way to snoop on people, is found floating in a cesspool, having been bludgeoned prior to drowning in the drainage water. A case of murder and intrigue.

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This British Library anthology uncovers the best mysteries set below the surface and atop the waves, including stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, William Hope Hodgson and R. Austin Freeman.