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Romantic fiction expert Jo Parsons is the matchmaker between the reader and a carousel of authors from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries whose bewitching, classic short stories explore unearthly passions, ghostings (of the Gothic kind) and demonic dalliances.

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Chantry Westwell has used her profound knowledge of the British Library's illuminated manuscript collections to explore some of literature's most celebrated stories, together with the deep history of the books and chronicles in which they were first preserved.

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This theatrical Christmas murder, truly lost in the British Library collection, will provide entertainment throughout the festive season.A Christmas party on a private Scottish island gets off to a bad start in the latest addition to the British Library Crime Classics.

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A new anthology collecting tales of strange and ghostly happenings across the memorable landscapes of Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Essex and the fens bordering Lincolnshire.

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Strangling vines and meat-hungry flora fill this unruly garden of strange stories, selected for their significance as the seeds of the villainous (or perhaps just misunderstood) `killer plant in fiction, film and video games.

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When a brilliant scientist believes that a cutting edge replication process offers the solution to an excruciating love triangle, the limits of the new technology are tested - and impossible questions of identity and originality threaten to tear apart the best-laid plans of paradise.

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From the vaults of the British Library comes a new anthology celebrating the best works of forgotten, never since republished, supernatural fiction from the early 20th century.

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From Marco Polo and Magellan to Shackleton and Armstrong, Great Voyages takes the reader on fifteen of the most exhilarating and heroic journeys ever made.

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A new collection of classic stories and poems celebrating Halloweens unique legacy of weird and spooky storytelling.Featuring a new introduction by Johnny Mains charting the history of Halloween fiction and the traditions of Samhain through to All Souls Night and beyond, includes the works of rare authors from the archives.

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As the local inspectors dive into the muddy waters of this strange crime, Chief Inspector Julian Rivers and Inspector Lancing of Scotland Yard are called to investigate, with danger and deceit lying in wait among the lonely hills and authentically evoked landscapes.

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We are thrilled to welcome John Dickson Carr into the Crime Classics series with his first novel, a brooding locked room mystery in the gathering dusk of the French capital featuring Inspector Bencolin. Also includes the short story 'The Shadow of the Goat'.

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First published in 1945, Loft's masterful storytelling manages to weave lighter comedic moments into this darker tale. A suspenseful thriller that will leave the reader guessing in the final pages, this mystery is a fantastic addition to the British Library Women Writers series, now featuring over 25 titles.

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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.

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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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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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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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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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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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This unjustly neglected novel from 1966 has not been reprinted in over fifty years. With its appearance as a British Library Science Fiction Classic, contemporary readers have the chance to enjoy Temple's unusual blend of traditional SF with a darkly ironic tone.

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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.