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First published in 1920, Tension explores the powerful force of reputation and the persistence of gossip in relation to women's choice of work and domestic arrangements, including the burning topic of whether or not to marry.

Set in London during the Second World War, this deceptively light-hearted page-turner follows the newlyweds Agnes and Andrew Kinghof investigating the identity of "The Pig", a killer who has been taunting his victims with a disembodied pig's head.

Written at the height of crime fiction's Golden Age, this macabre and atmospheric dive into the secluded corners of Paris presents a keenly plotted puzzle with nightmare-inducing revelations. This edition also includes the rare Inspector Bencolin short story 'The Murder in Number Four'.

A glittering ball on a misty night in the countryside. Rumours of a missing girl, never found. A mysterious wanderer in the night killed by a car speeding away from the revelry... Threads to be expertly drawn together by the beloved E.C.R. Lorac in this never-before-published Golden Age mystery.

Stories of Life in the Void.

The doomed mutual attraction of a middle-aged widow and her new son-in-law, who is much closer to her own age than her daughter's, becomes a pivotal drama in this sensitive and emotionally complex 1950s bestseller.

A moody classic set around London's historic docks published in 1938, Josephine Bell's unique and atmospheric writing shines in a mystery weaving together blackmail, bootleg lingerie and, of course, murder.

Since stories have been swapped and written down, literature has been awash with tales of bad or strange weather. Charting the course from ancient flood myths to twentieth-century psychological storms, this foray into troubled waters and severe weathers offers the perfect read on a rainy day - or night.

Have you ever wondered about the difference between a lager and an ale? Or marvelled at how, with only four basic ingredients, there can be around 150 different styles of beer in existence? Raise a glass with Jane Peyton as she distils practical advice from the rich history of the nation's favourite beverage. This fascinating insight spans the earliest evidence of beer 13, 000 years ago, through its central role in monasteries and aboard naval...

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.

Beginning with the birth of the tattoo, John Miller explores this unique expression of personal, cultural and national identity, the tension between tattoo's status as a fashion item and its roots in subculture, and the relevance of magic -- a crucial part of tattooing's origins -- in contemporary society.

Science fiction has long confronted concerns of humanity's ecological impact. In this new collection of tales from the classic period of the genre, explore both accounts of eco-catastrophe and ruin following abuse of Earth's natural resources, and stories of hope and learning for humankind's forays into the new environments of the future.

This ground-breaking book, now in paperback, 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.

Now in paperback, this stunningly illustrated book draws on the unparalleled collections of the British Library, as well as numerous world-leading institutions, to highlight 76 important, expressive and individual examples of calligraphy.

In three fascinating and ground-breaking novellas, John Brunner weaves an ingenious tale of a divergent and compelling timeline, and poses complex questions of how we perceive the fourth dimension and its relation to our own identity.

An early gem from one of the great writers of the classic crime genre, in which Inspector Bencolin must tread the streets of a foggy London in search of a fictional bogeyman, Jack Ketch, who appears to be on a murder spree.

On a foggy night in London, a party has gathered in an artist's studio during the wartime blackout. When the brutal murder of the miser next door is discovered by his infantryman nephew, it's not long before Inspector Macdonald of Scotland Yard is at the scene, untangling alibis from the studio party and with the fate of the soldier in his hands.

In her second compilation for the British Library, children's author and commentator Anna James delves deep into the collections to present stories for comfort, inspiration and adventure as well as touching tales to make you laugh or sometimes cry.

From the Swiss Alps to New York's hipster cheese bars, journalist Patrick McGuigan has written about cheesemakers, maturers and cheesemongers around the world for The Telegraph, Delicious and The Financial Times. He is partial to a slice of Kirkham's Lancashire. www.patrickmcguigan.com

In this specially-commissioned anthology, sixty accomplished authors share secrets and insights into their writing lives: on their inspirations, methods, wild ideas and daily routines, on the pleasure and the pain in achieving their literary goals, on how they started out and how they hope to continue.