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Poppy tears, opium, heroin, fentanyl: poppy latex is a bringer of sleep, of pleasurable lethargy, of relief from pain - and hugely addictive. A commodity without rival, it is renewable, easy to extract, transport and refine, and subject to an insatiable global demand.In Milk of Paradise, acclaimed cultural historian Lucy Inglis takes readers on an epic journey from ancient Mesopotamia to modern America and Afghanistan, from poppy juice to hero...

An intelligent and authoritative history of opium-a drug that has both healed and harmed since the beginning of civilization.Poppy tears, opium, heroin, fentanyl: humankind has been in thrall to the "Milk of Paradise" for millennia. The latex of papaver somniferum is a bringer of sleep, of pleasurable lethargy, of relief from pain-and hugely addictive. A commodity without rival, it is renewable, easy to extract, transport, and refine, and subj...

An urban fantasy set in a hidden world within contemporary London, where ancient myth collides with modern technology. Features a girl and a half-human boy, who solve a crime and fall in love along the way. Ages: 12+. *Also appeared in April Buyer's Notes*

Over the course of his career, William Scott painted more than 1, 000 works in oil, all of which are catalogued in this four-volume publication, which covers the artist's output from 1928 to 1986. Each work is accompanied by a catalogue note giving reasons for the dating together with any documentary material relevant to its history, much of it published here for the first time. An enormous amount of new information has been unearthed during t...

Fate sets two English girls, Hope and Emily, on parallel journeys more than a hundred years apart. Both find freedom and love in the wild mountains of Montana, but what they don't know is that their stories are inextricably entwined.

In 2009 Lucy Inglis began blogging on the lesser-known aspects of London during the Eighteenth Century - including food, immigration and sex - at GeorgianLondon.com. She lives in London with her husband. Georgian London is her first book.

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