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Successful commercial pilot, Kirsten Davies has just fulfilled a lifelong dream of flying a World-War II P51-D 'Mustang' fighter. Sadly her perfect week flying from an Arizona Desert Airfield is cut short by a freak accident, which leads her convalescing in California.

Ranging widely through history, myth, literature and art, this new account of the fairy shows the terror lurking behind Tinkerbell.

Respected scholar Richard Sugg reveals the true history of vampires, exploring their cultural origins in a globetrotting tale of superstition, horror and strangeness. Sugg makes seemingly bizarre beliefs, practices and incidents comprehensible by showing in detail how vampires arose from a world of everyday "magic".

The development of disgust as a concept and a term as the eighteenth century went on, and the role of the aristocracy as both the progenitors and the subject of these notions are examined in this colourful history from "Time Team" guest Richard Sugg.

Fairies: A Dangerous History tells the story of the many fairy terrors which lay behind Titania or Tinkerbell.

Jungian Literary Criticism presents a comprehensive, theoretical foundation for a tradition of study that has included some of the leading critics of our time. This collection provides critics, writers, psychologists, and others interested in the relationship between psychology and literature with classics of Jungian literary analysis and with the work of contemporary scholars building on that tradition.

Mummies, Cannibals and Vampires charts in vivid detail the largely forgotten history of European corpse medicine, which saw kings, ladies, gentlemen, priests and scientists prescribe, swallow or wear human blood, flesh, bone, fat, brains and skin in an attempt to heal themselves of epilepsy, bruising, wounds, sores, plague, cancer, gout and depression. Richard Sugg shows that, far from being a medieval therapy, corpse medicine was at its heigh...

A history of corpse medicine from the Renaissance to the Victorians. 2nd edition.

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John Donne is now a strong candidate for the most popular Renaissance writer after Shakespeare. What lies behind this longstanding and increasing popularity? Paying tribute to the living vitality of Donne's literary voice, and the kaleidoscope of social detail embedded in his writings, Richard Sugg offers a vibrant engagement with the author's work, life and times. He argues that Donne's fiercely original mind produced remarkable and challengi...

John Donne is now a strong candidate for the most popular Renaissance writer after Shakespeare. What lies behind this longstanding and increasing popularity? Paying tribute to the living vitality of Donne's literary voice, and the kaleidoscope of social detail embedded in his writings, Richard Sugg offers a vibrant engagement with the author's work, life and times. He argues that Donne's fiercely original mind produced remarkable and challengi...