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Publishing July – December 2016

The 20th Century in Maps: Drawing the Line Edited by Tom Harper

Paperback £25 ISBN 978 0 7123 5661 9 Hardback £40 ISBN 978 0 7123 5662 6 272 pages, 280 x 220 mm 125 colour illustrations Publishing November 2016

Accompanies a major exhibition at the British Library, opening on 4 November 2016.

This book will tell a global story of the most turbulent century in history through its most powerful and important object: the map. It includes over 120 illustrations of the most important and unusual maps of the period from the world’s greatest map collection, and uses them to tell the story of war, peace, depression, prosperity, and social and technological change that has made the world what it is today. This bold new history will challenge the reader’s perceptions about maps, revealing them as objects of persuasion and power, as well as humour and even sadness. Above all it will open the reader’s eyes to the prevalence of maps in everyday life. Highlights will include a trench-map of the Somme battlefields, a bomb damage map of London, laminated rifle-maps from Belfast in 1990, the original sketch for the London Tube, early maps of the ocean floor, a poster showing Mao studying a map on his Long March, and a Russian Mars globe from 1961. Many of the illustrations will be unexpected: the United Nations flag, the first stamps of Independent Latvia, which were printed on the backs of maps, and a motorway sign.

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Persuading the People British Propaganda in World War II David Welch

Hardback £25 ISBN 978 0 7123 5654 1 224 pages, 280 x 220 mm 150 colour illustrations Publishing September 2016

David Welch is Professor of Modern History and Director of the Centre for the Study of War, Propaganda & Society at the University of Kent. He has published many books on propaganda, including Germany and Propaganda in World War I, The Third Reich: Politics and Propaganda and Propaganda: Power and Persuasion.

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During the Second World War, the UK government created the Ministry of Information to handle official news, to maintain morale and to conduct publicity campaigns for government departments. In these desperate times, the Ministry produced steady streams of propaganda for the home front, for the colonies and for dissemination through occupied countries. Patriotic material encouraged Britons to maintain a stiff upper lip, nutritional information kept the strained populace healthy, and thousands of postcards, leaflets, and booklets were dropped from aircraft over occupied countries, undermining the enemy’s influence. In 2000, the Ministry’s archive was deposited with the British Library, making an enormous collection of great social and historical significance available to the public for the first time. In this bold and evocative book, David Welch, the leading historian of propaganda, presents the best examples from the wartime information machine and reveals the history behind this key government body.

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Lines in the Ice Exploring the Roof of the World Philip Hatfield

Hardback £25 ISBN 978 0 7123 5606 0 256 pages, 280 x 220 mm 100 colour illustrations Publishing September 2016

Lines in the Ice asks why Europeans have long been drawn to the Arctic, and investigates the mysterious allure of the North through topographical views, maps, explorers’ diaries, and historic photographs. Following the course of major journeys to the region, the book assesses the impact of these incursions on the North’s indigenous communities and reveals how important this exploration has been in making the modern world. As well as communicating this rich and vivid history, the book focuses on the beauty the Arctic has created by inspiring those who live in the landscape or have spent their lives exploring it, and concludes by meditating on our relationship with the Arctic today, at a time when climate change poses a deep threat to this enigmatic region.

Philip Hatfield is Lead Curator of Digital Mapping at the British Library, where he was previously Curator of Canadian, Caribbean and US Studies.

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The Paper Zoo 500 Years of Art and Science Charlotte Sleigh

Hardback £25 ISBN 978 0 256 pages, 280 x 220 mm 280 colour illustrations Publishing September 2016

Charlotte Sleigh is Reader in History of Science at the University of Kent and a specialist in the history, literature and communication of science. She is the author of several books on natural history, including Ant (2003) and Frog (2012) in Reaktion’s Animal series.

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The Paper Zoo traces the varied and vital role of natural history illustration in science and art since the fifteenth century. Sumptuous images from giants of the genre – such as the birds of John J. Audubon, or the insects of Maria Sybilla Merian – accompany less familiar but equally intriguing illustrations from manuscripts, journals, and rare printed books. Together, these works represent a collection of nature’s wonders. Birds, butterflies, insects, mammals, reptiles, and fish were immortalised in print; pests and curiosities were wondered at; microscopes made monsters. Travellers brought home, on paper, exotic creatures. Scholars and hobbyists insisted upon the beauty and significance of native creatures, both wild and domesticated – even cows and clothes moths. Charlotte Sleigh shows how the styles and purposes of natural history illustration evolved, from animal alphabets to the extraordinary productions of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century naturalists and explorers recording and classifying the living world. She pays tribute to the achievements of little-known, unsung painters and colourists, alongside famous artists, in this mighty endeavour of collecting, defining and exhibiting animal life on the page.

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Food Fights and Culture Wars A Secret History of Taste Tom Nealon

Hardback £20 ISBN 978 0 7123 5658 9 224 pages, 246 x 170 mm 130 colour illustrations Publishing September 2016

Tom Nealon is a food writer and antiquarian bookseller who specialises in early printed books, especially cookery and literature. He is the founder of Pazzo Books in Boston, MA.

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Revolution! Conflict! Gluttony! In this eclectic book of food history, Tom Nealon takes on such overlooked themes as carp and the Crusades, brown sauce and Byron, and chillies and cannibalism, and suggests that hunger and taste are the twin forces that secretly defined the course of civilization. Through war and plague, revolution and migration, people have always had to eat. What and how they ate provoked culinary upheaval around the world as ingredients were traded and fought over, and populations desperately walked the line between satiety and starvation. Parallel to the history books, a second, obscurer history was also being recorded in the cookbooks of the time, which charted the evolution of meals and the transmission of ingredients around the world. The history of food is filled with mythical origin stories, dubious recipes, and fierce nationalism. Food Fights and Culture Wars explores the mysteries at the intersection of food and society, and attempts to make sense of the curious area between fact and fiction. Beautifully illustrated with material from the collection of the British Library, this wide-ranging book addresses some of the fascinating, forgotten stories behind everyday dishes and processes.

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CHILDREN’S BOOKS

My Book of Stories

My Book of Stories

Deborah Patterson

Deborah Patterson

This is a compendium of story starters taken from some of the very best stories ever written. Bewitching scenes from Hansel and Gretel, magical transformations from the Ugly Duckling and happy endings from Sleeping Beauty will inspire new characters to be created, new endings to be written, and perhaps even a new comic strip to unfold.

My Book of Stories: Write Your Own Myths is a compendium of story starters taken from some of the very best stories ever told. Within the colourful and beautifully illustrated pages of this book are opportunities to write tales of family feuds among the gods, to invent new myths about how the universe was created, and to take a trip into the underworld.

Paperback £9.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5642 8 96 pages, 200 x 170 mm 100 colour illustrations Publishing September 2016

Paperback £9.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5643 5 96 pages, 200 x 170 mm 100 colour illustrations Publishing September 2016

Write Your Own Fairy Tales

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The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Tales Edgar Allan Poe

Horror: A Literary History Edited by Xavier Aldana Reyes

A masquerade ball in a secluded abbey; a vendetta settled in the wine cellars of an Italian palazzo; a gloomy castle in a desolated landscape; the beating of a heart beneath the floorboards: the plots and settings of Poe’s dark, mysterious tales continue to haunt the popular imagination. This new selection introduces the greatest Gothic fiction from one of the most deranged and deliciously weird writers of the nineteenth century. The tales are accompanied by the classic illustrations of Harry Clarke, an artist fully alive to the deep darkness at the heart of Poe’s writing.

Hardback £12.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5754 8 192 pages, 210 x 148 mm 15 illustrations Publishing October 2016

Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849) was one of the most important American writers of the nineteenth century. His Tales of Mystery and Imagination are regarded as a major landmark in Gothic and macabre literature.

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Horror is unlike any other literary genre. It seeks to provoke uniquely strong reactions, such as fear, shock, dread or disgust, and yet remains very popular. Its characters and trends routinely escape the confines of given texts and become part of the zeitgeist. Of course, horror is most readily associated with the film industry, but horrific short stories and novels have been wildly loved by readers for well over two centuries. Despite its persistent popularity, there is no upto-date history of horror fiction for the general reader.

Hardback £20 ISBN 978 0 7123 5608 4 224 pages, 229 x 155 mm 40 illustrations Publishing August 2016

Dr Xavier Aldana Reyes is Senior Lecturer in English Literature and Film at Manchester Metropolitan University. He is the author of Body Gothic (2014) and Horror Film and Affect (2016), and co-editor of Digital Horror (2015). Xavier is also the editor of UWP’s Horror Studies series, the first dedicated exclusively to the genre in all its manifestations.

This ground-breaking new book is the first comprehensive history of horror fiction to take readers from the first Gothic novel in 1764 to the ‘new weird’, and beyond, in the early 21st century. It offers a chronological overview of the genre in fiction and explores its development and mutations over the past 250 years. It also challenges the common misjudgement that horror fiction is necessarily frivolous or dispensable. Leading experts on Gothic and horror literature introduce readers to classics of the genre as well as exciting texts they may not have encountered before.

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The Haunted Library

Lost in a Pyramid

Classic Ghost Stories

And Other Classic Mummy Stories

Edited by Tanya Kirk

Edited by Andrew Smith The Haunted Library is a new collection of classic ghost stories from the golden age of the genre in the early twentieth century. Each of these stories reveals the arcane secrets and dark psychic traces to be found in occult books, shadowy libraries and other treasure troves of hidden knowledge. The authors whose work is featured here include major figures such as M. R. James alongside writers better known as literary novelists. Many of these stories have never been anthologised before.

‘As he rushed madly and wildly through the night, he could hear a swift, dry patter behind him, and could see that this horror was bounding at his heels, with blazing eyes and one stringy arm out-thrown.’ A mummy disappears from its sarcophagus in the dead of night; a crazed Egyptologist entombs a beautiful young woman; a student at Oxford reveals the terrible secrets of an ancient papyrus.

Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5604 6 224 pages, 190 x 130 mm Publishing October 2016

Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5617 6 224 pages, 190 x 130 mm Publishing October 2016

Tanya Kirk is Lead Curator of Printed Heritage Collections 1600–1900 at the British Library, and was the co-curator of the major exhibition Terror and Wonder: The Gothic Imagination (2014–15).

Andrew Smith is Reader in Nineteenth Century English Literature at the University of Sheffield. His 17 published books include The Ghost Story 1840–1920: A Cultural History, Gothic Literature, Victorian Demons and Gothic Radicalism. His book Gothic Death: 1740–1914 will be published later this year. He is a past President of the International Gothic Association.

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These are among the twelve tales from the golden age of the mummy story collected here – stories that still cast a spell with their different versions of the mummy’s curse, some chilling, others darkly romantic and even comic. Including tales by major writes such as Arthur Conan Doyle and Louisa May Alcott, as well as rare discoveries unearthed for the first time in over 100 years, this enthralling collection is introduced by Andrew Smith, a leading expert on ghost stories and Victorian gothic.

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The Poisoned Chocolates Case

Anthony Berkeley

Crimson Snow Winter Mysteries Edited and introduced by Martin Edwards

‘All his stories are amusing, intriguing, and he is a master of the final twist’ Agatha Christie ‘One of the most stunning trick stories in the history of detective fiction’ Julian Symons Graham and Joan Bendix have apparently succeeded in making that eighth wonder of the modern world, a happy marriage. And into the middle of it there drops, like a clap of thunder, a box of chocolates.

Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5653 4 224 pages, 190 x 130 mm Publishing October 2016

Anthony Berkeley was a pen name of Anthony Berkeley Cox (1893– 1971), one of the most important figures in the history of British crime fiction. Many of his novels feature the amateur criminologist Roger Sheringham. As well as being the author of many classic detective stories, Berkeley was the founder of the prestigious Detection Club for the finest crime writers.

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Joan Bendix is killed by a box of poisoned liqueur chocolates that cannot have been intended for her to eat. The police investigation rapidly reaches a dead end. Chief Inspector Moresby calls on Roger Sheringham and his Crimes Circle – six amateur but intrepid detectives – to consider the case. The evidence is laid before the Circle and the members take it in turn to offer a solution. Each is more convincing than the last, slowly filling in the pieces of the puzzle, until the dazzling conclusion.

Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5665 7 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm Publishing October 2016

Martin Edwards is an award-winning crime writer best known for two series of novels set in Liverpool and the Lake District. He is series consultant for British Library Crime Classics and the editor of five previous anthologies in the series, as well as being Vice Chair of the Crime Writers’ Association, and President of the Detection Club. The Golden Age of Murder, his study of the Detection Club, was published in 2015 to international acclaim, and has been nominated for both the Edgar and Agatha awards for the year’s best book about the genre.

Crimson Snow brings together a dozen vintage crime stories set in winter. Welcome to a world of Father Christmases behaving oddly, a famous fictional detective in a Yuletide drama, mysterious tracks in the snow¬¬, and some very unpleasant carol singers. The mysterious events chronicled by a distinguished array of contributors in this volume frequently take place at Christmas. There’s no denying that the supposed season of goodwill is a time of year that lends itself to detective fiction. On a cold night, it’s tempting to curl up by the fireside with a good mystery. And more than that, claustrophobic house parties, when people may be cooped up with longestranged relatives, can provide plenty of motives for murder. Including forgotten stories by major writers such as Margery Allingham, as well as classic tales by less familiar crime novelists, each story in this selection is introduced by the leading expert on classic crime, Martin Edwards. The resulting volume is an entertaining and atmospheric compendium of wintry delights.

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Sergeant Cluff Stands Firm Gil North

The Methods of Sergeant Cluff Gil North

‘He could feel it in the blackness, a difference in atmosphere, a sense of evil, of things hidden.’

It is a wet and windy night in the town of Gunnarshaw, on the edge of the Yorkshire moors. The body of young Jane Trundle, assistant in the chemist’s shop, is discovered lying face down on the cobblestones.

Amy Snowden, in middle age, has long since settled into a lonely life in the Yorkshire town of Gunnarshaw, until – to her neighbours’ surprise – she suddenly marries a much younger man. Months later, Amy is found dead – apparently by her own hand – and her husband, Wright, has disappeared.

Sergeant Caleb Cluff is not a man of many words, and neither does he play by the rules. He may exasperate his superiors, but he has the loyal support of his constable and he is the only CID man in the division. The case is his.

Sergeant Caleb Cluff – silent, watchful, a man at home in the bleak moorland landscape of Gunnarshaw – must find the truth about the couple’s unlikely marriage, and solve the riddle of Amy’s death. Paperback £7.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5646 6 176 pages, 190 x 130 mm Publishing July 2016

Gil North was the pseudonym of Geoffrey Horne (1916–1988), a writer from Skipton who worked as a civil servant in colonial Africa for many years, before returning to his native Yorkshire. The best-known of his novels are the eleven detective stories featuring Sergeant Cluff.

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This novel, originally published in 1960, is the first in the series of Sergeant Cluff detective stories which were televised in the 1960s but have long been neglected. This new edition is published in the centenary year of the author’s birth.

Paperback £7.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5647 3 176 pages, 190 x 130 mm Publishing July 2016

Gil North was the pseudonym of Geoffrey Horne (1916–1988), a writer from Skipton who worked as a civil servant in colonial Africa for many years, before returning to his native Yorkshire. The best-known of his novels are the eleven detective stories featuring Sergeant Cluff.

Life in Gunnarshaw is tough, with its people caught up in a rigid network of social conventions. But as Cluff’s investigation deepens, Gunnarshaw’s veneer of hard-working respectability starts to crumble. Sparse, tense, and moodily evoking the unforgiving landscape, this classic crime novel keeps the reader guessing to the end. Originally published in 1961, this is the second in the series of Sergeant Cluff detective stories. Televised in the 1960s, they have since been neglected. This new edition is published in the centenary year of the author’s birth.

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The 12.30 From Croydon Freeman Wills Crofts

Mystery in the Channel Freeman Wills Crofts

‘Crofts constructs his alibi with immense elaboration.… The story is highly successful, and Mr Crofts is to be congratulated upon his experiment’ Dorothy L. Sayers

The Chichester is making a routine journey across the Channel on a pleasant afternoon in June, when the steamer’s crew notice something strange. A yacht, bobbing about in the water ahead of them, appears to have been abandoned, and there is a dark red stain on the deck… Two bodies later, with no sign of a gun, and there certainly is a mystery in the channel.

We begin with a body. Andrew Crowther, a wealthy retired manufacturer, is found dead in his seat on the 12.30 flight from Croydon to Paris. Rather less orthodox is the ensuing flashback in which we live with the killer at every stage, from the first thoughts of murder to the strains and stresses of living with its execution. Seen from the criminal’s perspective, a mild-mannered Inspector by the name of French is simply another character who needs to be dealt with. Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5649 7 256 pages, 190 x 130 mm Publishing September 2016

Freeman Wills Crofts (1879–1957) was one of the pre-eminent writers in the golden age of British crime fiction. He was the author of more than thirty detective novels, and was greatly acclaimed by peers such as Agatha Christie and Raymond Chandler.

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This is an unconventional yet gripping story of intrigue, betrayal, obsession, justification and self-delusion. And will the killer get away with it?

Inspector French soon discovers a world of high-powered banking, luxury yachts and international double-dealing. British and French coastal towns, harbours – and of course the Channel itself – provide an alluring backdrop to this nautical adventure, along with a cast of shady characters. Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5651 0 256 pages, 190 x 130 mm Publishing September 2016

Freeman Wills Crofts (1879–1957) was one of the pre-eminent writers in the golden age of British crime fiction. He was the author of more than thirty detective novels, and was greatly acclaimed by peers such as Agatha Christie and Raymond Chandler.

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Death of a Busybody George Bellairs

The Dead Shall Be Raised & Murder of a Quack George Bellairs

Having bombarded the villagers with religious tracts, and railed against every type of vice that she perceived within the community – from berating drunkards in the street to informing spouses of erring partners – Miss Tither was not the best-loved resident of Hilary Magna. Her murder, however, is still a huge shock to the Reverend Ethelred Claplady and his parish.

Two classic cases featuring Detective-Inspector Littlejohn. In the winter of 1940, the Home Guard unearth a skeleton on the moor above the busy town of Hatterworth. Twentythree years earlier, the body of a young textile worker was found in the same spot, and the prime suspect was never found – but the second body is now identified as his. Inspector Littlejohn is in the area for Christmas and takes on the investigation of the newly reopened case. Soon it becomes clear that the murderer is still at large…

Inspector Littlejohn’s understanding of country ways and his unaffected manner make him Scotland Yard’s first choice for the job. Basing himself at the village inn, Littlejohn works with the local police force to investigate what lay behind such an extreme solution as murder. Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5644 2 224 pages, 190 x 130 mm Publishing October 2016

George Bellairs was the pseudonym of Harold Blundell (1902–1985), a prominent banker and philanthropist from Manchester who was also the author of a popular series of detective stories featuring Thomas Littlejohn that were published for nearly forty years.

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A second death does little to settle the collective nerves of the village, but as events escalate a strange tale of hidden identities, repressed resentment, religious fervour and financial scams is uncovered. Life in the picturesque village of Hilary Magna proves to be very far from idyllic.

Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5652 7 224 pages, 190 x 130 mm Publishing October 2016

George Bellairs was the pseudonym of Harold Blundell (1902–1985), a prominent banker and philanthropist from Manchester who was also the author of a popular series of detective stories featuring Thomas Littlejohn that were published for nearly forty years.

Nathaniel Wall, the local quack doctor, is found hanging in his consulting room in the Norfolk village of Stalden – but this was not a suicide. Wall may not have been a qualified doctor, but his skill as a bonesetter and his commitment to village life were highly valued. Scotland Yard is drafted in to assist. Quickly settling into his accommodation at the village pub, Littlejohn begins to examine the evidence… Against the backdrop of a close-knit village, an intriguing story of ambition, blackmail, fraud, false alibis and botanical trickery unravels.

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The Cheltenham Square Murder John Bude

In the seeming tranquility of Regency Square in Cheltenham live the diverse inhabitants of its ten houses. One summer’s evening, the square’s rivalries and allegiances are disrupted by a sudden and unusual death – an arrow to the head, shot through an open window at no. 6.

Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5648 0 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm Publishing August 2016

John Bude was the pseudonym of Ernest Elmore (1901–1957), an author of the golden age of crime fiction. Elmore was a co-founder of the Crime Writers’ Association, and worked in the theatre as a producer and director. Other John Bude crime titles available as British Library Crime Classics include The Cornish Coast Murder, The Lake District Murder, The Sussex Downs Murder and Death on the Riviera.

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Unfortunately for the murderer, an invitation to visit had just been sent by the crime writer Aldous Barnet, staying with his sister at no. 8, to his friend Superintendent Meredith. Three days after his arrival, Meredith finds himself investigating the shocking murder two doors down. Six of the square’s inhabitants are keen members of the Wellington Archery Club, but if Meredith and Long thought that the case was going to be easy to solve, they were wrong… The Cheltenham Square Murder is a classic example of how John Bude builds a drama within a very specific location. Here the Regency splendour of Cheltenham provides the perfect setting for a story in which appearances are certainly deceiving.

Comic, Curious and Quirky News Stories from Centuries Past

Shakespeare in Ten Acts

The Bard in Brief

edited by Gordon McMullan and Zoë Wilcox

Shakespeare in Quotations Hannah Manktelow

This eclectic collection of funny, bizarre and thought-provoking stories from newspapers, spanning 1729–1930, was a popular hit when it was published in 2014. Now available in paperback for the first time.

This book explores ten performances that have made Shakespeare a cultural icon. From the very first production of Hamlet to a digitalage remix, these performances chart the evolution of the playwright’s reputation.

Paperback £7.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5659 6 176 pages, 198 x 130 mm Publishing September 2016

Paperback £25 ISBN 978 0 7123 5631 2 Hardback £40 ISBN 978 0 7123 5632 9 244 pages, 280 x 220 mm 120 colour illustrations Published April 2016

Shakespeare is one of the most quoted writers of all time. His plays and sonnets changed the literary landscape, as famous phrases passed into idiom and general usage. This short, accessible collection of quotations is the perfect introduction to one of literature’s most important figures.

Rona Levin

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Paperback £10 ISBN 978 0 7123 5633 6 96 pages, 200 x 170 mm Published April 2016

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My Book of Stories Write Your Own Shakespearean Tales

My Book of Stories

Pleasures of Nature

The Roar of the Crowd

Deborah Patterson

selected by Christina Hardyment

selected by Julian Walker

Within the colourful pages of this book are opportunities to write tales of adventure and pirate hi-jinks on the high seas, to invent new companions for a daring expedition, and to undertake imaginative new quests inspired by some of the greatest adventure stories ever told.

From Leonardo da Vinci on the shifting colours of the sky to Charlotte Brontë on the wild moors of Yorkshire, this unusual anthology showcases many voices – lyrical, awestruck, often deeply reflective. The texts gathered here are all grounded in close observation and real love for landscape, and reveal the tradition of nature writing to be deep-rooted and infinitely varied.

This major new anthology of sports writing captures the drama, excitement and intrigue of athletic achievement and celebrates the innate urge to compete, to fight, and to test the human body. Drawing together fiction and nonfiction from across the centuries, The Roar of the Crowd features some of the finest sports journalism of the 20th century alongside tales of triumph from ancient Greek myth to Ernest Hemingway.

Write Your Own Adventures

A Literary Anthology

A Sporting Anthology

Deborah Patterson

Bewitching lines from Macbeth, magical songs from A Midsummer Night’s Dream and lovers’ talk from Romeo and Juliet will inspire children to invent new characters, write new dialogue, and create a Shakespearean comic strip. Paperback £9.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5634 3 96 pages, 200 x 170 mm 100 colour illustrations Published March 2016

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Paperback £9.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5635 0 96 pages, 200 x 170 mm 100 colour illustrations Published March 2016

Paperback £12.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5768 5 224 pages, 190 x 130 mm 30 colour illustrations Published March 2016

Paperback £12.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 0973 8 224 pages, 190 x 130 mm 30 colour illustrations Published May 2016

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Penguins, Pineapples and Pangolins First Encounters with the Exotic

Medieval and Renaissance Interiors Eva Oledzka

Hardback £12.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5636 7 192 pages, 210 x 149 mm 60 illustrations Published April 2016

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Arthur Conan Doyle and The Strand magazine

Passage of Arms

The Light of Day

A Kind of Anger

Eric Ambler

Eric Ambler

Eric Ambler

‘A taut and extraordinary piece of writing’ Sunday Times

‘Ambler is incapable of writing a dull paragraph’ Sunday Times

Winner of the Crime Writers’ Association Gold Dagger

‘Ambler brings off this comic thriller with consummate zest’ New York Times Book Review

‘A thriller of the highest quality – ironic, witty, literate, ingenious, understated and unflaggingly suspenseful’ New York Times Book Review

Mike Ashley

Claire Cock-Starkey

Can you remember seeing a giraffe for the first time? Tasting a pineapple? Touching a cactus? This book reflects the wonderment and curiosity of these new experiences, using extracts from a wide range of sources to reveal the reactions of Europeans as they visited new places, tasted new foods and encountered strange animals, peoples and plants for the first time.

Adventures in The Strand

Illuminated manuscripts are an excellent source of information about the interiors inhabited by people in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Artists regularly depicted the castles and palaces of the ruling classes, as well as the houses of ordinary people. This attractive book is the first to study the subject in depth.

Arthur Conan Doyle’s name is synonymous with The Strand magazine, chiefly because of the Sherlock Holmes stories but also due to many of his other contributions. This book gives a broader picture of Conan Doyle’s life and work than previous biographies, focused through the lens of The Strand magazine.

Hardback £25 ISBN 978 0 7123 4973 4 160 pages, 280 x 220 mm 140 colour illustrations Published April 2016

Hardback £25 ISBN 978 0 7123 0984 4 288 pages, 229 x 155 mm 60 illustrations Published February 2016

Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5655 8 256 pages, 190 x 130 mm Published July 2016

Winner of the Edgar Award for Best Novel

Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5645 9 256 pages, 190 x 130 mm Published May 2016

Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5650 3 256 pages, 190 x 130 mm Published March 2016

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Murder of a Lady

A Scottish Mystery

Death on the Riviera John Bude

Country House Mysteries

When a counterfeit currency racket comes to light on the French Riviera, Inspector Meredith is sent speeding southwards – out of the London murk to the warmth and glitter of the Mediterranean. Along with Inspector Blampignon from Nice, Meredith must trace the whereabouts of Chalky Cobbett, crook and forger.

The English country house is an iconic setting for some of the greatest British crime fiction. These stories continue to enjoy wide appeal, driven partly by nostalgia for a vanished way of life, and partly for the pleasure of trying to solve a fiendish puzzle.

Anthony Wynne

Duchlan Castle is a gloomy, forbidding place in the Scottish Highlands. Late one night the body of Mary Gregor, sister of the laird of Duchlan, is found in the castle. She has been stabbed to death in her bedroom – but the room is locked from within and the windows are barred. Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5623 7 272 pages, 190 x 130 mm

Murder at the Manor

Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 0993 6 384 pages, 190 x 130 mm

Serpents in Eden

Countryside Crimes

Many of the greatest British crime writers have explored the possibilities of crime in the countryside in lively and ingenious short stories. Serpents in Eden celebrates the rural British mystery by bringing together an eclectic mix of crime stories written over half a century. Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5794 4 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm

Calamity in Kent

Murder in the Museum

John Rowland

John Rowland

In the peaceful seaside town of Broadgate, an impossible crime occurs. The operator of the cliff railway locks the empty carriage one evening; when he returns to work next morning, a dead body is locked inside – a man who has been stabbed in the back.

When Professor Julius Arnell breathes his last in the hushed atmosphere of the British Museum Reading Room, it looks like death from natural causes. Who, after all, would have cause to murder a retired academic whose life was devoted to Elizabethan literature?

Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5783 8 256 pages, 190 x 130 mm

Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5784 5 272 pages, 190 x 130 mm

Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5637 4 256 pages, 190 x 130 mm

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Death in the Tunnel Miles Burton

The Secret of High Eldersham

Death of Anton Quick Curtain Alan Melville

Alan Melville

Miles Burton

On a dark November evening, Sir Wilfred Saxonby is travelling alone in the 5 o’clock train from Cannon Street, in a locked compartment. The train slows and stops inside a tunnel; and by the time it emerges again minutes later, Sir Wilfred has been shot dead, his heart pierced by a single bullet. Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5641 1 256 pages, 190 x 130 mm

Samuel Whitehead, the new landlord of the Rose and Crown, is a stranger in the lonely East Anglian village of High Eldersham. When the newcomer is stabbed to death in his pub, and Scotland Yard are called to the scene, it seems that the veil dividing High Eldersham from the outside world is about to be lifted. Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5609 1 256 pages, 190 x 130 mm

Christopher St John Sprigg

Seven Bengal tigers are the star attraction of Carey’s Circus. Their trainer is the fearless Anton, whose work demands absolute fitness and the steadiest of nerves. When Anton is found lying dead in the tigers’ cage, it seems he has lost control and been mauled by the tigers – but DetectiveInspector Minto is not convinced. Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5788 3 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm

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Death of an Airman

‘The best detective novel I have read, after Agatha Christie’s’ Shiny New Books When Douglas B. Douglas premieres his new musical extravaganza, Blue Music, he is sure the packed house will be dazzled by the performance. What he couldn’t predict is the death of his star on stage in the middle of Act Two. Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5789 0 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm

‘Bubbles over with zest and vitality’ Dorothy L. Sayers George Furnace dies instantly when his plane crashes into the English countryside; the inquest records a verdict of death by misadventure. An Australian visitor to the aero club, Edwin Marriott, Bishop of Cootamundra, suspects that the true story is more complicated. Could this be a dramatic suicide – or even murder? Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5615 2 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm

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Thirteen Guests The Z Murders J. Jefferson Farjeon

On a fine autumn weekend Lord Aveling hosts a hunting party at his country house, Bragley Court. Among the guests are an actress, a journalist, an artist and a mystery novelist. Soon events take a sinister turn when a painting is mutilated, a dog stabbed and a man strangled. This countryhouse mystery is a forgotten classic of 1930s crime fiction. Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5601 5 256 pages, 190 x 130 mm

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J. Jefferson Farjeon

Richard Temperley arrives at Euston station early on a fogbound London morning. He takes refuge in a nearby hotel, along with a disagreeable fellow passenger, who had snored his way through the train journey. But within minutes the other man has snored for the last time – he has been shot dead while sleeping in an armchair. Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5621 3 256 pages, 190 x 130 mm

Mystery in White

The Sussex Downs Murder

The Cornish Coast Murder

J. Jefferson Farjeon

John Bude

John Bude

John Bude

On Christmas Eve, heavy snowfall brings a train to a halt near the village of Hemmersby. Several passengers take shelter in a deserted country house, where the fire has been lit and the table laid for tea – but no one is at home. Trapped together for Christmas, the passengers are seeking to unravel the secrets of the empty house when a murderer strikes in their midst.

Two brothers, John and William Rother, live together at Chalklands Farm on the beautiful Sussex Downs. Their peaceful rural life is shattered when John disappears and his abandoned car is found. Has he been kidnapped? Or is his disappearance more sinister – connected, perhaps, to his growing rather too friendly with his brother’s wife?

The Reverend Dodd, vicar of the quiet Cornish village of Boscawen, spends his evenings reading detective stories by the fireside – but heaven forbid that the shadow of any real crime should ever fall across his seaside parish. But the vicar’s peace is shattered one stormy night when Julius Tregarthan, a secretive and illtempered magistrate, is found at his house in Boscawen with a bullet through his head.

When a body is found at an isolated garage, Inspector Meredith is drawn into a complex investigation where every clue leads to another puzzle: was this suicide, or something more sinister? Why was the dead man planning to flee the country? And how is this connected to the shady business dealings of the garage?

Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5770 8 256 pages, 190 x 130 mm

Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5796 8 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm

The Lake District Murder

Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5716 6 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm

Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5715 9 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm

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The Santa Klaus Murder

Death on the Cherwell

Murder Underground

Mavis Doriel Hay

Mavis Doriel Hay

Mavis Doriel Hay

Aunt Mildred declared that no good could come of the Melbury family’s Christmas gatherings at their country residence Flaxmere, and when Sir Osmond Melbury is discovered – by a guest dressed as Santa Klaus – with a bullet in his head on Christmas Day, the festivities are plunged into chaos. Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5630 5 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm

For Miss Cordell, principal of Persephone College, Oxford, there are two great evils to be feared: unladylike behaviour among her students, and bad publicity for the college. So her prim and cosy world is turned upside down when a secret society of undergraduates meets by the river on a gloomy January afternoon, only to find the drowned body of the college bursar floating in her canoe. Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5726 5 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm

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When Miss Pongleton is found murdered on the stairs of Belsize Park station, her fellow-boarders are not overwhelmed with grief at the death of a tiresome old woman. But they all have their theories about the identity of the murderer, and help to unravel the mystery of who killed the wealthy ‘Pongle’. Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5725 8 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm

Silent Nights

Capital Crimes

edited by Martin Edwards

edited by Martin Edwards

Christmas is a mysterious, as well as magical, time of year. When television becomes tiresome, and party games pall, the prospect of curling up in the warm with a good mystery is enticing – and much better for the digestion than yet another helping of plum pudding. This book introduces readers to some of the finest Christmas detective stories of the past.

With its fascinating mix of people, London is a city where anything can happen. The possibilities for criminals and for the crime writer are endless. London has been home to many of fiction’s finest detectives, and the setting for mystery novels and short stories of the highest quality. Capital Crimes is an eclectic collection of London-based crime stories.

Christmas Mysteries

Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5610 7 256 pages, 190 x 130 mm

London Mysteries

Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5749 4 320 pages, 190 x 130 mm

Resorting to Murder

Holiday Mysteries edited by Martin Edwards

Holidays offer us the luxury of getting away from it all. So, in a different way, do detective stories. This collection of vintage mysteries combines both those pleasures. From a golf course at the English seaside to a pension in Paris, this new selection shows the enjoyable and unexpected ways in which crime writers have used summer holidays as a theme. Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5748 7 320 pages, 190 x 130 mm

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Antidote to Venom

The Hog’s Back Mystery

A Scream in Soho

Murder in Piccadilly

The Female Detective

The Notting Hill Mystery

Freeman Wills Crofts

Freeman Wills Crofts

John G. Brandon

Charles Kingston

Andrew Forrester

Charles Warren Adams

George Surridge, director of the Birmington Zoo, is a man with many worries. As Surridge’s debts mount and the pressure on him increases, he begins to dream of miracle solutions. But is he cunning enough to turn his dreams into reality – and could he commit the most devious murder in pursuit of his goals

Dr James Earle and his wife live in comfortable seclusion near the Hog’s Back, a ridge in the North Downs in the beautiful Surrey countryside. When Dr Earle disappears from his cottage, Inspector French is called in to investigate. He suspects a simple domestic intrigue – and begins to uncover a web of romantic entanglements beneath the couple’s peaceful rural life.

Soho during the blackouts of the Second World War. When a piercing scream rends the air and a bloodied knife is found, Detective Inspector McCarthy is soon on the scene. He must move through the dark, seedy Soho underworld as he attempts to unravel the connection between the mysterious Madame Rohner and the theft of secret defence plans.

Bobbie Cheldon’s miserly uncle stands between him and happiness: he will not relinquish the ten thousand a year on which Bobbie’s hopes of marriage rest. When Bobbie falls under the sway of the unprincipled Nosey Ruslin, the stage is set for murder in the heart of Piccadilly.

‘Miss Gladden’, the first female detective, is a determined and resourceful figure, with ingenious skills of logic and deduction. Pursuing mysterious cases, she works undercover and only introduces herself as a detective when the need arises. She is a ‘literary ancestor to Miss Marple, Lisbeth Salander and Nancy Drew’, according to the Guardian.

Widely acknowledged as the first detective novel, this story is narrated by Ralph Henderson, who is building a case for murder against the sinister Baron R––. Henderson descends into a maze of intrigue including a diabolical mesmerist, kidnapping by gypsies, slowpoisoners, a rich uncle’s will and three murders.

Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5779 1 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm

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Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5797 5 336 pages, 190 x 130 mm

Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5745 6 256 pages, 190 x 130 mm

Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5795 1 320 pages, 190 x 130 mm

Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5759 3 320 pages, 190 x 130 mm

Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5626 8 256 pages, 190 x 130 mm

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History

Arts The Golden Age of

Flowers

Celia Fisher

The Golden Age of Flowers Paperback £14.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5895 8

The Magic of Birds Hardback £20 ISBN 978 0 7123 5742 5

Book History

The Medieval Flower Book Paperback £14.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5894 1

Try it! Buy it! Hardback £12.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5758 6

Children’s Literature

The Old Man’s Guide to Health and Longer Life Hardback £6.95 ISBN 978 0 7123 5898 9

Overpowered! Paperback £14.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5785 2

The Philosophy of Beards Hardback £7.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5766 1

The Art and History of Globes Hardback £30 ISBN 978 0 7123 5868 2

The Cat that Walked by Himself and other stories

Codex Sinaiticus Hardback £50 ISBN 978 0 7123 5860 6

The Publication of Plays in England 1660–1800 Hardback £50 ISBN 978 0 7123 5773 9

Rudyard Kipling

Alice’s Adventures Under Ground Hardback £14.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5600 8

The Cat that Walked by Himself and other stories Hardback £7.95 ISBN 978 0 7123 5809 5

The Book of the British Library Hardback £25 ISBN 978 0 7123 5837 8

British Town Maps Hardback £30 ISBN 978 0 7123 5729 6

The Curious Cookbook Hardback £12.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5863 7

The Finishing Touch Hardback £10 ISBN 978 0 7123 5752 4

Hidden Stories of the First World War Hardback £17.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5738 8

A History of the 20th Century in 100 Maps Hardback £25 ISBN 978 0 7123 5856 9

A History of the Book in 100 Books Hardback £25 ISBN 978 0 7123 5756 2

How to Cure the Plague and Other Curious Remedies Hardback £10 ISBN 978 0 7123 5701 2

London: A Life in Maps Paperback £15.95 ISBN 978 0 7123 4919 2

Magna Carta: Manuscripts and Myths Paperback £7.95 ISBN 978 0 7123 5833 0

Maps of Paradise Hardback £20 ISBN 978 0 7123 5709 8

Gift/Humour

Nonsense Botany and Nonsense Alphabets Hardback £14.95 ISBN 978 0 7123 5044 0

Ride a Cock Horse Hardback £7.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5786 9

Beauty, what it is and how to Retain it Hardback £7.95 ISBN 978 0 7123 5885 9

In the Company of Cats Paperback £10 ISBN 978 0 7123 5750 0

Deportment for Dukes and Tips for Toffs Hardback £7.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5703 6

The Gentleman’s Art of Dressing with Economy Hardback £7.95 ISBN 978 0 7123 5886 6

How to Skin a Lion Hardback £10 ISBN 978 0 7123 5782 1

Lady Cycling Hardback £7.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5727 2

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London: A History in Maps Hardback £30 ISBN 978 0 7123 5879 8

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Dogs Hardback £12.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5776 0

How to Live to Be 22 Hardback £12.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 0969 1

A Literary Christmas Hardback £10 ISBN 978 0 7123 5613 8

Peake’s Progress Hardback £25 ISBN 978 0 7123 5834 7

Pleasures of the Table Hardback £20 ISBN 978 0 7123 5780 7

Puss in Books Paperback £7.95 ISBN 978 0 7123 5882 8

The Second I Saw You Hardback £16.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5792 0

Literature

Pleasures of the Garden: A Literary Anthology Hardback £20 ISBN 978 0 7123 5720 3

1000 Years of Royal Manuscripts Hardback £45 ISBN 978 0 7123 5708 1

The Angel of Charleston Hardback £16.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5867 5

The Traitor Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5614 5

Trouble on the Thames Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5603 9

The Charleston Bulletin Supplements Hardback £12.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5891 0

Dangerous Work Hardback £25 ISBN 978 0 7123 5864 4

British Bird Sounds Two CDs £16 inc. VAT ISBN 978 0 7123 0512 9

Dawn Chorus CD £10 inc. VAT ISBN 978 0 7123 0520 4

Medieval Cats Hardback £10 ISBN 978 0 7123 5818 7

Medieval Dogs Hardback £10 ISBN 978 0 7123 5892 7

Medieval Monsters Hardback £10 ISBN 978 0 7123 5790 6

Medieval Women Hardback £20 ISBN 978 0 7123 5865 1

Peake in China Hardback £25 ISBN 978 0 7123 5741 8

Sea Monsters on Medieval and Renaissance Maps Paperback £14.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5771 5

West Africa: Word, Symbol, Song Paperback £20 ISBN 978 0 7123 0989 9

The World for a King Hardback £50 ISBN 978 0 7123 5618 3

Painted Labyrinth Paperback £5.95 ISBN 978 0 7123 4811 9

Cats Hardback £12.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5777 7

Discovering, Identifying and Editing Early Modern Manuscripts Hardback £50 ISBN 978 0 7123 5893 4

The Cat And the Moon and Other Cat Poems Hardback £7.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5747 0

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Shakespeare’s Original Pronunciation CD £10 inc. VAT ISBN 978 0 7123 5119 5

Blackbird CD £10 inc VAT ISBN 978 0 7123 5129 4

Songs of Garden Birds CD £10 inc. VAT ISBN 978 0 7123 0519 8

Wild Scotland CD £10 inc VAT ISBN 978 0 7123 5128 7

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