sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The Philosophy of Beards 'The absence of Beard is usually a sign of physical and moral weakness.' 'Take two drawings of the head of a lion, one with and the other without the mane. You will see how much of the majesty of the king of the woods, as well as that of the lord of the... RRP: $24.99 $24.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Resorting to Murder 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, and from a Swiss... RRP: $23.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The Cocktail Book The Cocktail Book, first published in 1900, is the earliest book devoted purely to the art of the cocktail. For thirty years including the prohibition, it was a staple of well-stocked bars, although originals are now extremely rare. This collection, in a... RRP: $23.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Miraculous Mysteries Locked-room mysteries and other impossible crime stories have been relished by puzzle-lovers ever since the invention of detective fiction. Fiendishly intricate cases were particularly well suited to the cerebral type of detective story that became so... RRP: $24.99 $24.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Warfare in Medieval Manuscripts The ways of war in the Middle Ages never cease to fascinate. There is a glamour associated with knights in shining armour, colourful tournaments and heroic deeds which appeals to the modern imagination. Because medieval warfare had its colourful side it... RRP: $29.99 $29.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Forest Silver Far below, through the moonlit wood, the lake was visible again and the Island in it. Dim, like a phantom ship, it lay in the silver waters and from the nearer end of it shone a narrow rectangle of light... so dull and red and smoky looking that it... RRP: $23.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The The Philosophy of Pickles and Fermented Foods Fermented food is playing a significant role in the developing discussion around gut health and the microbiome. More than the latest health trend, pickling and fermentation are techniques that have been used by human populations across the globe in food... RRP: $24.99 $24.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
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sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The Philosophy of Cider Cider is sunshine in a glass! Follow Jane Peyton on a glorious voyage of discovery, from the journey the wild Malus Sieversii apple ancestor of today's domesticated apple has made from the foothills of Central Asia's Tien Shan mountains, to the Norman... RRP: $24.99 $24.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The Horned God The pipe music shrilled suddenly around her, seeming to come from the bushes at her very feet, and at the same moment the great beast slewed round and bore directly down upon her.In 1894, Arthur Machen's landmark novella The Great God Pan was published,... RRP: $23.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The Book Lover's European Bucket List Following the success of The Book Lover's Bucket List, Caroline Taggart sets off on a tour of Europe to select 100 literary landmarks across the continent to describe and provide practical advice for visiting. Discover the inspirations in Austria for... RRP: $44.99 $39.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The Edinburgh Mystery "Cara!" Mr. Wilkinson stood on the jetty looking out at the long, low shadow of the island, dark against the setting sun. "A beautiful place, and a beautiful name.""It's the Gaelic word for a corpse."From the dramatic Highlands to bustling cities and... RRP: $24.99 $24.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Introduction to Sally A Pygmalion-style story told with von Arnim's characteristic wit and charm, this novel introduces us to Salvatia (known as Sally), a much longed-for child to humble shopkeepers. Sally grows up to be an extremely beautiful girl, attracting the attentions... RRP: $23.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
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Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added One Year's Time She got up, without meeting his eyes, and went into the bedroom to dress. That was life all over; you wanted to make a good exit, and you remembered you were still in your housecoat.Single girl Liza leaps into an exciting new sexual relationship with... RRP: $23.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The Philosophy of Cocktails An early description of a cocktail as 'a mix of alcoholic drinks with flavouring ingredients' does nothing to convey the alchemy and speak-easy glamour of these elaborate drinks. The cocktail's humble beginnings as a medicinal tonic through the... RRP: $24.99 $24.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The Book Lover's Joke Book The Book Lover's Joke Book is the funniest book about books you'll ever read. You'll find jokes about writers, agents, publishers, librarians, grammar, poetry, bookcases, and lightbulbs. There are rib-ticklers for typographers, crackers for critics, and... RRP: $23.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
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sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Penned and Painted The idea of the book was central throughout the western European and the eastern Mediterranean world in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. From the beginning, the word for 'book'-sefer in Hebrew, biblia in Greek, and liber in Latin-was identified with... RRP: $57.99 $56.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The Philosophy of Chocolate What makes chocolate so alluring? Why is it the inspiration for endless culinary creativity? Sam Bilton explores our complex relationship with this versatile confection, which is made from the humble beans of the tropical cacao tree.Divided thematically,... RRP: $24.99 $24.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The Story of Propaganda in 50 Images Propaganda is thousands of years old. But it came of age in the 20th century, when the development of mass media (and later multimedia communications) offered a fertile ground for its dissemination, and the century's global conflicts provided the impetus... RRP: $39.99 $39.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
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sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The Book Lover's Almanac Enjoy daily distraction with this engaging Almanac. Each date is assigned one or more literary connections. Book lovers will find extracts from authors' diaries and letters, chance upon the narrative twists and transformative moments in their favourite... RRP: $44.99 $39.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Our Haunted Shores The sea that night sang rather than chanted; all along the far-running shore a rising tide dropped thick foam, and the waves, white-crested, came steadily in with the swing of a deliberate purpose.From foreboding cliffs and lonely lighthouses to rumbling... RRP: $23.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Serpent, Siren, Maelstrom & Myth The sea is beautiful and alluring, but it is also dangerous and deadly. Above all, it is unknowable and untameable. Storytelling offered our ancestors a means to understand and interact with the natural world, and in time these stories coalesced into the... RRP: $67.99 $66.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Spectral Sounds Darkness now was around me and sound. I seemed to stand in the centre of some yelling planet, the row resembling the resounding of many thousands of cannon, punctuated by strange crashing.The violent peals of a disconnected bell in the night; a trudging... RRP: $23.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Dragons, Heroes, Myths and Magic Dragons, Heroes, Myths & Magic presents fifty of the very first adventure stories, set out across seven sections, featuring Heroes and Heroines; Epic Battles; Magical Events and Miracles; Villains, Crime and Murder; Quests or Journeys; Animals; and... RRP: $44.99 $44.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Final Acts "... and what a motive! Murder to save one's artistic soul... who'd believe that?"Behind the stage lights and word-perfect soliloquies, sinister secrets are lurking in the wings. The mysteries in this collection reveal the dark side to theatre and... RRP: $24.99 $24.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The Book by Design Why does a book look and feel the way it does? What can it tell us about the circumstances of its creation? This is a fascinating exploration of the development of book design through some of the most treasured volumes in the British Library collections... RRP: $89.99 $87.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Cornish Horrors A mariner inherits a skull that screams incessantly along with the roar of the sea; a phantom hare stalks the moors to deliver justice for a crime long dead; a man witnesses a murder in the woods near St. Ives, only to wonder whether it was he himself... RRP: $23.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Which Way? 'There was no one in the room. Blinds and curtains were closed; the light of the skies, if any, was shut out. ... Only the fire was alive, consuming its life-for what? Then the door opened and as Claudia came with hurried steps into the fire's glow, two... RRP: $23.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added A Children's Literary Treasury Great stories ignite a child's imagination and can fill a childhood with unforgettable characters, wondrous places and superb illustrations. They also allow young readers to explore, and to understand, their different feelings and experiences.In her... RRP: $44.99 $44.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Mamma 'Joanna sat with her cheek against her [Libby's] shining hair. She had hardly thought of Steven since he slammed his way out of the house, but now, welling up within her and pouring out over her love for Libby, came an intolerable flood of envy.' Widowed... RRP: $23.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Dangerous Ages "May I ask your daughter's age?" "Nan is thirty-three.""A dangerous age."Rose Macaulay takes a lively and perceptive look at three generations of women within the same family and the 'dangers' faced at each of those stages in life. The book opens with... RRP: $23.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The Progress of a Crime The murder, a brutal stabbing, definitely took place on Guy Fawkes' night. It was definitely by the bonfire on the village green. There were definitely a number of witnesses. And yet, was it definitely clear to anybody exactly what they had seen? In the... RRP: $23.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Murder by the Book 'If much of the action is set in a bookshop or a library, it is a bibliomystery, just as it is if a major character is a bookseller or a librarian.' Otto PenzlerA bookish puzzle threatens an eagerly awaited inheritance; a submission to a publisher... RRP: $23.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Dangerous Dimensions 'I have stood on the dim shore beyond time and matter and seen it. It moves through strange curves and outrageous angles. Some day I shall travel in time and meet it face to face.' Unlike nineteenth-century Gothic fiction, which tends to fixate on the... RRP: $23.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
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Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The Love Child She had saved her. But at what a cost! Her position, her name, her character she had given them all, but Clarissa was hers. Upon the death of her mother, Agatha Bodenham finds herself alone for the first time in her life. Solitary and socially awkward by... RRP: $23.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Tea Is So Intoxicating "I shall turn this into a tea-house, with lunches if requested, and shall serve pleasant meals in the orchard," announced David, "and with my penchant for cooking I ought to make a fortune." "Oh dear!" said Germayne.David Tompkins thinks it is a splendid... RRP: $23.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
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Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added A Pin to See the Peepshow Julia Almond believes she is special and dreams of a more exciting and glamorous life away from the drab suburbia of her upbringing. Her work in a fashionable boutique in the West End gives her the personal freedom that she craves but escape from her... RRP: $23.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Heavy Weather Since Odysseus' curious crew first unleashed the bag of winds gifted to him by Aeolus, the God of Winds, literature has been awash with tales of bad or strange weather. From the flood myths of Babylon, the Mahabharata and the Bible, to twentieth-century... RRP: $23.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Crawling Horror 'Its long antennae waved inquiringly back and forth, its tiny eyes sparkled black with crimson points, and then it began to run. The Professor caught it in his hand as it toppled from the edge of the counter. It bit him.'A brush with a killer hornet... RRP: $23.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
sale Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added The Philosophy of Beer Have you ever wondered about the difference between a lager and an ale? Or marvelled at how, with only four basic ingredients, there are around 150 different styles of beer?In The Philosophy of Beer, Jane Peyton, the UK's first Beer Sommelier of the... RRP: $24.99 $24.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added A Guilty Creatures "Curiously enough," said Dr. Manners, "I know a story in which the detection of a murder turned on the behaviour of a bird: in this instance a jackdaw."Since the dawn of the crime fiction genre, animals of all kinds have played a memorable part in... RRP: $23.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
Add Wish List Add to Cart The item has been added Weird Woods Woods play an important and recurring role in horror, fantasy, the gothic and the weird. They are places in which strange things happen, where you often can't see where you are or what is around you. Supernatural creatures thrive in the thickets. Trees... RRP: $23.00 Add to Cart The item has been added
