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Accompanying the largest ever display of the British Library's Buddhist treasures, Buddhism introduces the history, philosophy, geographical spread...

A contemporary guide to 35 popular heritage herbs and flowers, inspired by the original herbals in the British Library's collection with fruitful s...

Passed down in the oral tradition and sung traditionally as working songs, sea shanties tell the human stories of life at sea: hard graft, battling...

Discover the original version of Alice's famous adventure, featuring facsimile reproduction of the original manuscript and pages of commentary whic...

In this highly original work Jeremy Black, one of world's leading military and cartographic historians, shows how fundamental maps were to the conf...

From John Polidori's iconic short story 'The Vampyre' and tales of parasitic female companions to experimental and freshly thrilling takes by Rober...

In this specially-commissioned anthology, sixty accomplished authors share secrets and insights into their writing lives: on their inspirations, me...

Based on the events of a sensational murder trial in the 1920s - the Thompson/Bywaters case - Julia becomes trapped by her sex and class in a crimi...

In this timely and fully international book, David Welch has selected fifty images to highlight the continuities and dis-continuities of mass-commu...

This new collection presents seventeen classic stories, spanning a period from the 1880s to the 1970s, by a host of Scottish authors alongside writ...

Randalls Round has long been revered by devotees of the weird tale. First published in 1929, its stories of ritualistic folk horror and M. R. James...

Despite some suspicions from the family, the verdict at the inquest is suicide - but when Ruth's brother Richard receives a letter from the decease...

A witty and lighthearted mystery full of intriguing period detail, this rare gem of Golden Age crime returns to print for the first time since its ...

In this compelling new collection of short stories from SF's classic age our visions of `other' are shown in a myriad of forms - beings from other ...

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 i...

With a foreword by Oti Mabuse. Choreographer Robert Hylton navigates an extraordinary array of photographs, periodicals and ephemera from the Briti...

In three fascinating and ground-breaking novellas, John Brunner weaves an ingenious tale of a divergent and compelling timeline, and poses complex ...

First published in 1932 at the height of crime fiction's Golden Age, this macabre and atmospheric dives into the murky underground of Parisian soci...

For Miss Cordell, principal of Persephone College, there are two great evils to be feared: unladylike behaviour among her students, and bad publici...

The murder, a brutal stabbing, definitely took place on Guy Fawkes' night. It was definitely by the bonfire on the village green. There were defini...

Join Mike Ashley on a characterful tour of the most ingenious and often forgotten books from the rich history of classic British science fiction.Il...

This collection of Vernon Lee's uniquely weird short stories and dark fantasies proves why she was once considered among the best of the genre, and...

Aiming to firmly position Sheridan Le Fanu alongside other canonical horror writers published by the British Library, this anthology focuses on som...

This new collection of fifteen short stories, six folk tales and four poems ranging from 1789 to 1933 offers a chilling literary tour of the coasts...

This newly edited volume collects six of her greatest 'Seen and Unseen' stories - Oliphant's most popular series in her day - and includes a new in...

"It is my firm opinion that...The Willows is the greatest weird tale ever written." - H.P. LovecraftFrom one of the greatest and most prolific auth...

The Illustrated Police News provided an affordable illustrated roundup of `all the startling events of the week' from its first issue published on ...

As the fog thickens and the smoky dark sweeps across the capital, strange stories emerge from all over the city. Waiting in the shadowy streets are...

Chantry Westwell has used her profound knowledge of the British Library's illuminated manuscript collections to explore some of literature's most c...

Assembled with parts from the late 19th century to the 1960s, this new collection of classic stories warns of the possible threats, both comic and ...

In this collection of his most atmospheric and uneasy tales, Mike Ashley provides the facts of Blackwood's life which inspired each story - includi...

This volume collects Doyle's most enduring strange stories - ranging from monster encounters and deadly hauntings to dark tales of mesmerism - and ...

This beautifully presented and fully illustrated new collection presents many English-language favourites, some old and some newly made, to try twi...

This new edition of the most influential book about pirates ever written presents twenty action-packed biographies of the likes of Blackbeard and C...

Woods play an important role in horror, fantasy, the gothic and the weird. They are places in which strange things happen, where you often can't se...

A spectacular, puzzle-fuelled, myth-busting journey through the hidden history of Britain in 500 questions.Publisher: British Library PublishingAut...

Presenting 13 of the author's best tales from the 1920s and 30s - including accounts of uncanny living wax figures, unsettling timeslips into troub...

In Penned & Painted, Lucy Freeman Sandler, one of one of the world's most respected authorities on medieval art, takes us on a personal but highly ...

Collecting the best of the author's strange tales - including 'The White Shawl', which was unpublished during her lifetime - this volume casts a li...

Captain Charles Johnson's colourful accounts of the most roguish and infamous highwaymen in history comes to life in this new publication featuring...

Originally published in folio size complete with fine engravings, this new collection of Captain Charles Johnson's tales of rogues includes the ver...

Assembling ten tales and six poems - along with Machen's novella - from the boom years of Pan-centric literature, this new collection revels in the...

One of the world's leading writers on propaganda and information projection presents a remarkably detailed history and critique of the workings and...

A curated collection of 100 memorable meals from the last 250 years, both fascinating and entertaining. The humblemenu, as a record of the food we ...