British Library Publishing 2025
RUTH CHIVERS, EDITOR
Gardens of the Future
The Original Designs
The British Library’s exhibition ‘Unearthed: The Power of Gardening’ showcases major changes in gardens and gardening over the centuries through a carefully curated selection of objects from its collections and those of other institutions. The aim of this book is to explore how these changes might translate into gardens of the future, presented through ten original designs.
The Challenge
The exhibition curators and editorial team set up the challenge by defining a range of garden types, both domestic and public, and inviting a group of international and awardwinning designers to imagine these gardens set in the future.
‘The future’ was defined as fifty years from now to give designs relevance rather than presenting a purely sciencefiction perspective on how gardens might look and feel in a more distant timeframe. Linked to this, the designs should also reflect current science and research, again so they would not be too fanciful. Each designer was allocated a different garden type based on their previous and current projects and fields of expertise.
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The designers were asked to respond to questions and concerns that we anticipate will affect future garden design: considerations about climate change and associated extreme weather events; sustainability, societal trends and individual needs. The designs are not based on using the ‘right’ materials; they are not about future-proof schemes and planting plans, or suggesting the ‘right’ species or cultivars to plant. The aim was to inspire, provoke, and provide possible solutions to the challenges we face in our gardens. We wanted the design challenge to encourage rather than constrain creativity. Each designer approached it in a different way. Some are philosophical and take a conceptual approach, while others are
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Gardens of the Future
Unique Visions for a Changing World
Accompanied Unearthed, the British Library Exhibition
Edited by Ruth Chivers, with a foreword by Olivia Laing
Hardback
£30
ISBN 978 0 7123 5508 7
160 pages, 264 x 206 mm
150+ colour illustrations
Published May 2025
Ten award-winning designers bring their unique vision to a series of garden types, both public and private, to inspire, motivate and provoke. Given a brief that extends to a maximum of 50 years into the future, their original designs mitigate the effects of a changing climate, encourage biodiversity, address issues of legacy and access to land, as well as changing societal needs and individual well being. They provide hope in a time of uncertainty and emphasise the power of gardening to nurture nature and adapt to change. Interspersed between these original designs are features linking the garden types to themes and items in the British Library exhibition, Unearthed: The Power of Gardening, which drew on the Library’s rich botanical and horticultural collections.
Featuring 10 original garden designs by
Harry Holding – The Food and Medicine Garden
Eelco Hooftman – The Botanic Garden
Tom Massey – The Small Garden
Ann-Marie Powell – The Family Garden
Tonkin Liu – The Garden Square
Nelson Byrd Woltz – The Garden City
Andy Sturgeon – The Rural Garden
Sophia Kaplan and Lauren Camilleri – The Indoor Garden
Grow to Know – The Community Garden
Sarah Eberle – The Garden in Space
Secret Maps
How they Conceal and Reveal the World
The Book of the British Library Exhibition
Tom Harper, Nick Dykes and Magdalena Peszko
Hardback £40
ISBN 978 0 7123 5564 3
256 pages, 280 x 220 mm
150+ colour illustrations
Published October 2025
Tom Harper is Lead Curator of Antiquarian Mapping. Nick Dykes is Curator of Modern Mapping at the British Library and Magdalena Peszko is Curator of Map Collections. Together they work at the British Library in London and have curated the major exhibition ‘Secret Maps’ (October 2025–January 2026).
This book tells a story of how maps and secrets have come together in Western, and global, culture over the past six centuries. From confidential Second World War military plans to a hand-drawn treasure map where ‘X’ marks the spot, the authors uncover some of the secrets concealed by maps. Naturally, when a secret is revealed, we wish to know more. What is in the cave? How do I find that treasure? Why exactly were you going there? Secret Maps combine the intrigue, excitement and danger that drives human fascination with secrets and explores these alongside the peculiar thrill that maps give us of rvealing, and thereby possessing, the world in miniature.
Every map conceals and simultaneously reveals knowledge. The brilliance of Secret Maps is to show how this paradox lies at the heart of not just mapping, but humanity’s obsession with making and decoding secrets at the level of states, empires, societies and even individuals. Extraordinary in its range and depth, from Henry VIII’s coastal maps to Treasure Islands, the Western Front and the Cold War, this beguiling survey of secret maps charts new directions in map history. Jerry Brotton, author of A History of the World in 12 Maps and Four Points of the Compass.
Pride and Prejudice
A Novel in Three Volumes
The British Library Facsimile Edition
Jane Austen
Three volume facsimile in presentation box with three facsimile letters £125
ISBN 978 0 7123 5573 5
Approx. 900 pages, 178 x 108 mm Colour facsimile reproduction
Published September 2025
Jane Austen (1775–1817) is one of English literature’s most beloved and popular writers despite publishing just six novels (two posthumously). During her lifetime her novels were read by royalty and schoolgirls alike. Her novels have been translated into over 35 languages and are celebrated around the world for their wit and charm.
To commemorate the 250 th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth, the British Library has reproduced, in beautiful facsimile form, a first edition of Pride and Prejudice from the Library’s restricted collections. Pride and Prejudice has been enchanting readers for centuries with its universal story of premature judgement and stubbornness in love.
Austen fans can now own her iconic novel as it was originally published by T Egerton in London in 1813, in three gorgeous volumes, presented in an ornate clamshell case. This edition also includes reproductions of Austen letters from the Library’s collection of her personal effects, as well as introductory notes by a lead curator.
Practical Application
This script is a mix of angular Gothic with cursive elements – a Bâtarde indeed. For example, the letter ‘m’ starts with curves, has an angular arch and then ends in a curve – a real mix and match, as are many of the other letters. However, this is a deceptive script in that the cursive element suggests speed, whereas there is in fact a great deal of control in writing this style – none more so than in the roundback letter ‘d’. The first stroke is the same as that on the letter ‘o’, after which the round-back stroke starts low to the left. The fine hairline stroke is made by using the left-hand corner of the nib. The roundback stroke should still have wet ink, making it easier to form the loop. However, if it has dried the nib has to be pressed down within the stroke itself to release some ink, then the nib’s left-hand corner is used to create the hairline curve.
Perhaps the three most distinctive letters of this script are the two-horned letter ‘g’ and the long ‘s’ and ‘f’. The ‘g’ is made by starting the first stroke above the top guideline for x-height; the third curving stroke then starts even higher, producing two spikes above the guideline that resemble two horns – hence the name. The long ‘s’ and ‘f’ are not that difficult to replicate if a flexible quill is used, but they are challenging with a metal nib. Holding a quill at about 0° to the horizontal guidelines, pressure is applied to force the two tines (sides) of the nib apart to make the wide stroke. This pressure is then released towards the base guideline for x-height to reduce the ‘swell’, and finally the nib is turned to about 5° to create the fine hairline end. It is recommended that, as they do not have a quill’s flexibility, with metal nibs, this swelling is made by two separate pen strokes as shown on the exemplar letters.
Two forms of the letter ‘s’ were used in this script, the rather cramped version appearing usually at the ends of words. Such unusual letter-forms would be easy to read by those at the time who were used to them. However, more modern letter-forms may now be preferred for legibility and these have been used in the projects.
Majuscules or capital letters are less elaborate than those of Gothic Textura; they have fewer diamonds and ticks but are often exaggerated in form and are also wide. Practise the minuscule letters first to understand the stroke sequence and the direction of movement of the pen. Once this is familiar, writing the majuscules should not be too much of a problem. It is also important to realise that Bâtarde majuscules were fairly fluid. These are just one example of letters that varied between individual manuscripts. Quickest progress is made if letters are practised in families that have similar strokes, rather than starting at ‘a’ and continuing to ‘z’. In the exemplar pages (128–131), the alphabet is on the left-hand page for reference, and then the letters in families of similar strokes on the right. The whole alphabet is repeated in smaller letters on both pages. Pen strokes are made downwards and to the right so that a broad-edged nib is not pushed upwards or left, as this creates resistance and may result in a smattering of ink spots! The direction of strokes and the order in
10. OPPOSITE David Aubert’s precise and controlled lettering is well shown in this detail. Note the way in which the strokes of the round-backed ‘d’, the distinctive tail of the letter ‘g’ and the long ‘s’ all catch the eye. La Vie and La Vengeance, 1479, Royal 16 G III. f. 19 (detail).
another half circle. Replace the compasses at the first point. Widen until the pencil point touches the left-hand edge of the half circle just drawn; inscribe another half a circle. Repeat the process, alternating the compass point between the two points until the spiral is the desired size. The photo shows six halfcircles, but seven in total are required for the project.
3 Practise painting roses. Use the size 1 brush and dilute Vermilion to ‘splodge’ the paint in approximate rose and rosebud shapes, vary the size of roses and stages of opening of the buds. Paint the stems in dilute green, remembering that minor stems grow gently out of the major one. Using various dilute greens, paint approximate leaf shapes. Using Madder or Vermilion mixed with a little Black to define the petals on the roses, start with those in the centre; these should be small and tight. Gradually work towards the edge, where the petals are wider and larger. For the stems and leaves, use the darker paint to add shadows into the base of the petals with fine lines. Use a darker green to define the central and other veins, and the slightly spiky edges; use a darker green to reinforce the stems. With dark red, paint the thorns on the stems. Use white to paint very fine lines as highlights.
4 Now design the roses inside the spiral; this should fit within the centre with space between the design and the text. Sketch this in coloured pencils to ensure a balance of roses, rosebuds and colour, etc., and trace the design from step 2.
5 Draw a spiral as above on vellum or white/cream paper. See page 113 to avoid an imprint of the compass point. Write out the text. It is best to trace the text from the rough to ensure that the lettering fits the spiral. Allow to dry. Try to protect the lettering as much as possible with rough paper when painting. Transfer the tracing of the rose design to the centre of the spiral. Paint as above, then paint a rosebud at the beginning of the text. When dry, erase the lines.
The Art of the Scribe
Practical Projects Inspired by the Calligraphy and Illuminations of Medieval Manuscripts
Patricia Lovett, with a foreword by Dr Stella Panayotova
Hardback £35
ISBN 978 0 7123 5484 4
272 pages, 264 x 206 mm
300+ colour illustrations
Published March 2025
Patricia Lovett is a professional calligrapher and illuminator who teaches and lectures all over the world. She was awarded an MBE for services to calligraphy and heritage crafts and is also Co-Director and Chief Judge of the Stanford University Calligraphy Collection. She has published extensively on calligraphy and illumination, including The Art & History of Calligraphy for the British Library.
Folios from some of the most celebrated and exquisite mediaeval and Renaissance manuscripts in the collections of the British Library and other international institutions provide the inspiration for twenty-one practical art and calligraphy projects.
Seven classic scripts are explored in turn by expert Patricia Lovett. She explains their characteristics, origins and development and creates exemplar diagrams to show basic letter shapes and the pen strokes required to produce them. Each chapter ends with three complementary projects drawing on aspects of the historical manuscripts illustrated on the preceding pages. These projects are suited to a range of abilities and are illustrated with step-by-step photographs and beautiful images of the finished works.
Following on from these chapters, an authoritative section provides vital guidance on specialist tools and materials, as well as practical techniques, including cutting quills, preparing pigments and applying gold leaf and shell gold, to enable you to truly re-capture this mediaeval artform.
Land of Mist and Magic
The Myths and Legends that Shaped Britain
Philip Parker
Hardback £30
ISBN 978 0 7123 5514 8
384 pages, 234 x 156 mm
150+ colour illustrations
Published October 2025
Philip Parker is a writer, consultant and publisher specialising in ancient and medieval history as well as cartography. He studied history at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, and is the author of The British History Puzzle Book (2021), The Magnificent Maps Puzzle Book (2019), the DK Eyewitness Companion Guide to World History (2010), The Northmen’s Fury (2010), The A-Z History of London (2019), History of Cities in Maps (2024) and The Atlas of Atlases (2022).
Land of Mist and Magic collects and retells stories of Britain, from the founding myths and patron saints to ghosts, fairy changelings, giants and demon dogs. It is a journey through Celtic Scotland, the kingdoms of the Anglo-Saxon heptarchy and medieval Wales. These tales have bound together nations, blurred Pagan and Christian traditions, lent their names to landscapes, and given guidance and comfort to generations. In these pages, hero and beast, celebrated and forgotten, stand shoulder to shoulder: mermaids swim with the poetry-loving blue men of Minch; Robin Hood hides out with the less-altruistic outlaw Twm Siôn Cati; Arthur pulls the sword from the stone while Havelok the Dane’s royal birth is revealed by an unearthly light that shines directly from his sleeping mouth. Gathered from episodes in grand, quasi-historical medieval epics and the anecdotal folklore of local regions, Philip Parker beautifully retells these larger-than-life tales with humanity and insight.
Serpent, Siren, Maelstrom & Myth
Sea Stories & Folktales from Around the World
Gerry Smyth
Now in paperback
Paperback with flaps £19.99
ISBN 978 0 7123 5549 0 296 pages, 234 x 156 mm 120+ colour illustrations
Published October 2025
Gerry Smyth is an academic, musician, actor and playwright and is Professor of Irish Cultural History at Liverpool John Moores University. He is the author of bestselling S ailor Song: The Shanties and Ballads of the High Seas, published in 2021.
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 mythological systems of the world. And the ocean features in every mythological system in history.
To reflect and explore this, Gerry Smyth has gathered together myths and folktales from cultures around the world – Native American, Caribbean, Polynesian, Persian, Indian, Scandinavian and European. Just as these stories have been passed down through generations, he brings his own narrative interpretation with additional discussion on their meaning.
Stories are divided into seven sections: Origin Stories; Gods and Humans; Voyages; Lost Places, Imagined Spaces; Weather and Nature; Down to the Sea in Ships; Fabulous Beasts and embellished with illustrations from the wide-ranging collections of the British Library.
When Books Go Bad
Tales of Literary Feuds, Publishing Errors and Withering Reviews
Alex Johnson
Hardback £14.99
ISBN 978 0 7123 5583 4 176 pages, 198 x 129 mm 22+ line illustrations
Published October 2025
Alex Johnson is the author of titles about art, music, sheds, and books on books including for the British Library, A Book of Book Lists (2017), Edward Lead and the Pussycat: Famous Writers and Their Pets (2019), How to Give Your Child a Lifelong Love of Reading (2020), and The Book Lover’s Almanac (2023).
The literary world isn’t all bestsellers, it is also a world of insults, physical blows, snide acknowledgements and publishing errors. Books are messy, personal things and writers have been grappling with them in the metaphorical mud for centuries.
Some writers have gone at each other in ink, while other bookish brawls are more literal. It usually ends in regret –or death. But books don’t need authors to go bad. They get stolen, misprinted, censored, some are even cursed or bound in questionable materials.
When Books Go Bad is a rousing collection of publishing mishaps, its narrative twists and turns taking a light-hearted look at poor editing, poor judgement, and a whole range of bad behaviour.
Beyond the Bassline
500 Years of Black British Music
Edited by Paul Bradshaw, with an introduction by Aleema Gray and Mykaell Riley
Paperback with flaps £25
Now in paperback
ISBN 978 0 7123 5544 5 288 pages, 250 x 182 mm 120+ colour photographs and artworks
Published June 2025
Paul Bradshaw began his career as a music journalist in the 1970s. After contributing to the NME, in 1988 he launched Straight No Chaser, a ‘designer fanzine’ dedicated to the music of the African diaspora. Over two decades it became the hub for the global club-orientated jazz scene. Paul recently edited Gilles Peterson’s Lockdown FM: Broadcasting In A Pandemic
...a roadmap through the history of Black British music. ...stories old and new of the profound impact Black communities and artists have had on the world-renowned music of the UK.
Rolling Stone UK
This book originally accompanied the acclaimed, first ever large-scale exhibition on Black music in the UK and explores the people, spaces and messages that formed part of this central British soundtrack. We travel from jazz to calypso, from reggae, ska and punk, to soul and rap, and onwards through Garage, Jungle, Grime and Afrobeats. More than just music, the sounds, style, innovations and industries that have emerged from African and Caribbean visionaries in Britain are surveyed and celebrated.
We meet legends, innovators and pioneers including Ignatius Sancho, Billy Walters, Samuel Coleridge Taylor and Ken ‘Snakehips’ Johnson. The book seeks out the ground-breaking careers of Shirley Bassey and on through Pauline Black and Little Simz. The exhibition has uncovered a raft of new street-photography, as well as pivotal instruments, outfits, notebooks, zines, flyers and, of course, records, all of which are presented in this landmark book.
Swallowed By a Whale
Writing Advice from Authors of Note
Edited by Huw Lewis-Jones
Paperback with flaps £12.99
ISBN 978 0 7123 5554 4 224 pages, 200 x 130 mm 20+ mono illustrations
Published August 2025
Now in paperback
Huw Lewis-Jones is an author, teacher, and polar expedition leader whose work has been published in more than twenty languages. His books include the acclaimed and bestselling The Writer’s Map: An Atlas of Imaginary Lands and more recently he has been making picturebooks for children, from bad apples and befuddled badgers to penguins exploring the meaning of life. Huw is now a professor at Falmouth University and lives in Cornwall.
How do you become a writer? Is it through the call of divine inspiration, riding to the top of the bestsellers list, or consuming truly irresponsible levels of caffeine? Ask any writer and they will likely share some version of Dorothy Parker’s infamous advice: ‘Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat.’
In this unique, original collection, Huw Lewis-Jones asks sixty accomplished authors to share their secrets and provide insights into their writing lives. In a chorus of support, established and emerging authors alike guide you through the literary perils and pitfalls: when is a draft finally done, how to do battle with the blank page, where to find your writing sanctuary, and ultimately urge you to daydream, dictate, scribble, read and fail your way to words on the page.
Brimming with advice from the pens of David Mitchell, Irvine Welsh, Onjali Q. Raúf, Colin Thubron and Sarah Moss, illustrations from Chris Riddell and Tom Gauld, and the work of many more inspiring creatives, this beautiful book is a prescriptive balm against the woes of the writing life.
The Little Book of Trolls
Carolyne Larrington
Hardback £12.99
ISBN 978 0 7123 5518 6 96 pages, 190 x 150 mm 40+ colour illustrations
Published May 2025
Carolyne Larrington is emerita professor of medieval European literature at the University of Oxford. She writes on Old NorseIcelandic literature, myths and legends, folklore and popular medievalism. Her most recent books include All Men Must Die: Power and Passion in Game of Thrones and The Norse Myths that Shape the Way We Think
Emerging from Scandinavian mythology, trolls are contradictory creatures: fleshy in their desires but turning to stone in sunlight, as large as slumbering mountains or small enough to help you with your washing, charmingly charmless or genuine threat. They lurk in pine forests and peat bogs, overrunning homesteads, abducting princesses and generally nagging society with their troublesome presence.
In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries these folktales were collected from manuscript and oral traditions and circulated in printed collections. In modern times they have emerged in fantasy literature and popular movies. Immortalised in the artworks of Theodor Kittelsen, John Bauer and Erik Werenskiold, this beautiful little book follows their journey from the dense forests of Norway to Tolkien’s Middleearth.
The Little Book of Dragons
Carolyne Larrington
Hardback £12.99
ISBN 978 0 7123 5558 2
96 pages, 190 x 150 mm
40+ colour illustrations
Published September 2025
Dragons have haunted human consciousness throughout time and across cultures. They have taken multiple forms, from the many-headed monsters of the ancient world, through the slithering serpents of European tradition, to the mighty, flying fire-drake that has become the archetype of today’s fantasy literature and movies. Whether they spit lethal venom, brood over hoards of gold, or menace the townsfolk with their rapacious appetites, these creatures are typically vanquished by the heroes of mythological quests and knights of medieval legend.
In other parts of the world, dragons are considered benevolent, even auspicious, at times befriending the hero – a gentler trait that has crept into modern narratives. This handsome little book follows their fiery journey and explores the rich tradition of storytelling that they have inspired.
The Philosophy of Houseplants
Sarah Gerrard-Jones
The desire to cultivate indoor plants is shared by all of us. Houseplants are more than mere decoration. Sarah Gerrard-Jones masterfully explores the psychology behind our attraction to houseplants, and the benefits of keeping plants in our homes, from the healing qualities of biophylic design to the philosophy of care.
Practical sections provide fundamental advice on looking after and nurturing plants, and she advises on how we can all acquire and grow houseplants sustainably.
Hardback £10.99
ISBN 978 0 7123 5513 1
112 pages, 200 x 130 mm
30+ mono illustrations
Published May 2025
The Philosophy of
Jazz
Kevin LeGendre
The Philosophy of Jazz is a thoughtprovoking exploration of this hugely diverse musical language, discussing both the artistic practice and the sociological phenomenon. Encompassing history and politics, as well as music and various other artforms, this book investigates how jazz frames the freedom, risk, discipline and communal creation that link our past to our present. Jazz is now. Jazz is then. Jazz is now and then and then and now.
Hardback £12.99
ISBN 978 0 7123 5503 2
112 pages, 200 x 130 mm
30+ mono illustrations
Published September 2025
The Philosophy of Boardgames
Caroline Taggart
Hardback £12.99
ISBN 978 0 7123 5598 8 112 pages, 200 x 130 mm 30+ colour illustrations
Published October 2025
Caroline Taggart has written over thirty books, including I Used to Know That (a Sunday Times bestseller), 500 Words You Should Know and The Book Lover’s Bucket List. She is also the author of The Philosophy of Christmas in this series.
What is the enduring appeal of board games? Highly competitive, based on strategic, lateral and creative thinking, they are all played out on a cleverly designed artwork with crafted pieces. Played with – and argued over – by friends and family alike. At a time when we are being encouraged to move ever deeper online, they have only grown in popularity. Young and old visit board games cafés or invite friends round for games night.
Best-selling author Caroline Taggart explores our fascination with board games, drawing on examples from across centuries and cultures and celebrating their myriad versions. Here you will find the background trivia to games that you know, and encounter a few others that you don’t.
Also available in this series
Mystery in White
A Christmas Crime Story
J Jefferson Farjeon
Hardback £14.99
ISBN 978 0 7123 5559 9
256 pages, 216 x 138 mm
Published October 2025
J Jefferson Farjeon (1883–1955) was the author or more than 60 crime and thriller novels. His work was highly acclaimed in his day; Dorothy L Sayers wrote that ‘Jefferson Farjeon is quite unsurpassed for creepy skill in mysterious adventures’. Farjeon is now best know as the author of Number Seventeen, a play that was adopted for the big screen by Alfred Hitchcock.
‘The horror on the train, great though it may turn out to be, will not compare with the horror that exists here, in this house .’
On Christmas Eve, heavy snowfall brings a train to a halt near the village of Hemmersby. Several passengers take shelter in a deserted country house, where the fire has been lit and the table laid for tea – but no one is at home.
Trapped together for Christmas, the passengers are seeking to unravel the secrets of the empty house when a murderer strikes in their midst.
Out of print since the 1930s, this classic Christmas mystery was republished by the British Library in 2014 and became an instant bestseller. Now republished with an updated introduction by awardwinning crime writer, Martin Edwards, this glittering special edition makes the perfect gift for any lover of crime fiction.
Murder as a Fine Art
Carol Carnac
When a minister is crushed beneath a giant bust, it appears to be the third instance in a string of fatal accidents at the newly formed Ministry of Fine Arts. Minister Humphry David is soon faced with the possibility that among his colleagues is a murderer. Taking charge of the case, Inspector Julian Rivers of Scotland Yard enters a caustic world of fine art and civil service grievances to unveil a killer hiding in plain sight.
By the author best known as E C R Lorac, Murder as a Fine Art returns to print for the first time since the 1950s.
Paperback
£9.99
ISBN 978 0 7123 5517 9
240 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Published January 2025
The Ten Teacups
Carter Dickson
Writing as Carter Dickson, the master of the locked room mystery John Dickson Carr returns to the Crime Classics series. A note is delivered to New Scotland Yard, evoking a cold murder case and its unsolved mystery of the ten teacups found beside the body. Scrambling to prevent a second killing, the police set up a watertight cordon. But gunfire rings out from the top floor, and the corpse of one of the celebrity tenants is found in a locked room and on the table – ten teacups. The killer has vanished into thin air, an impossibility which calls for the masterful sleuth Sir Henry Merrivale to enter the fray.
Paperback £9.99
ISBN 978 0 7123 5527 8 256 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Published February 2025
Not to Be Taken
A Puzzle in Poison
Anthony Berkeley
A death by arsenical poisoning catches the interest of a hungry press and fans the flames of gossip in the sleepy village of Anneypenny. As rumours of Nazi intrigue and that burning word ‘murder’ spread and smoulder, the deadly puzzle edges towards a toxic truth.
Originally serialised in 1937–38 with a prize for the solution to the mystery and written by one of the most important figures in the history of British crime fiction, Anthony Berkeley, this new edition includes Berkeley’s final competition report as an appendix.
Paperback £9.99
ISBN 978 0 7123 5542 1
256 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Published March 2025
Scandalize My Name
Fiona Sinclair
Ivan Sweet has been found dead in his flat in the Southeys’ historic north London home. A slick charmer to some of the tenants –and a loathsome young scoundrel to others – his death doesn’t draw out many tears. And yet the sordid truth starts to seep into the heart of their small community – a murderer is living among them, and who’s to say when they might strike again?
Superintendent Grainger finds himself faced with a small circle of suspects whose connections and hidden motives heap complexity upon complexity in this tightly wrought mystery, shot through with a chilling touch of the macabre by this rediscovered author.
Paperback £10.99
ISBN 978 0 7123 5547 6
240 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Published April 2025
Cat and Mouse
A Mystery in Wales
Christianna Brand
In the first of Brand’s non-Cockrill stories to join the Crime Classics, Agony-aunt Katinka Jones finds herself at a loose end in Swansea, and decides to pay a surprise visit to one of the magazine’s regular correspondents, ‘Amista’. But reaching the address nobody has even heard of ‘Amista’. As Katinka begins to fall for the dashing master of the house, Carleon, more weird mysteries emerge and the plucky Detective Inspector Chucky joins the search for the truth in this self-consciously lurid mysterymelodrama; a rollicking cavalcade of Brand’s signature talent for twists and turns.
Paperback £10.99
ISBN 978 0 7123 5552 0 256 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Published May 2025
Cyanide in the Sun
And Other Stories of Summertime Crime
Edited by Martin Edwards
A string of murders follows a crime writer’s tour bus. A breakin prevents a young woman from leaving on her summer holidays. A homebody’s efforts to stay home have captured police attention.
This collection features short stories from crime legends, such as Christianna Brand, Anthony Berkeley, and Ethel Lina White, alongside more obscure writers revived in this anthology. Whether you spend your holidays abroad or never far from home, Martin Edwards presents a jam-packed travel case of 18 short mysteries, perfect for a summer getaway.
Paperback £10.99
ISBN 978 0 7123 5557 5 240 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Published June 2025
The Judas Window
Carter Dickson
One of the greatest locked-room murder mysteries of all time, hailing from 1938, returns to baffle a new bevy of armchair detectives. James Answell, visiting his fatherin-law Avery Hume in his locked study, has the misfortune to wake up from a drugged-whisky swoon to find his host dead, skewered with an arrow. He is, of course, prime suspect. After setting up this devilish scenario, Carter Dickson (a pseudonym of John Dickson Carr) unravels an ingenious courtroom thriller, in which the razor-sharp amateur detective (and barrister) Sir Henry Merrivale stars in all of his outlandish glory – and the mystery of the ‘Judas Window’ is revealed.
Paperback £10.99
ISBN 978 0 7123 5533 9
272 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Published July 2025
The Odd Flamingo
Nina Bawden
Rose has news for Celia – she is due to have a baby by Celia’s husband, Humphrey. Soon after, the seeds of scandal bear a criminal fruit when a body is discovered in Little Venice along with Rose’s handbag. Celia drafts in an old flame, Will, to root out the truth from suspicions of murder and blackmail, as the evidence starts to converge on the patrons and strange goings-on of the seedy Chelsea club, ‘The Odd Flamingo’. First published in 1954, this was one of two gritty and atmospheric crime novels written by the accomplished children’s author Nina Bawden.
Paperback £10.99
ISBN 978 0 7123 5543 8
256 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Published August 2025
As If by Magic
Locked-Room Mysteries and Other
Miraculous Crimes
Edited by Martin Edwards
Impossible crime stories have delighted readers since the invention of detective fiction as puzzle-lovers sought more cerebral entertainment. Following on from Miraculous Mysteries, CWA Diamond Dagger award-winning crime writer Martin Edwards brings together a whole new casebook of mystifying locked room mysteries and impossible crimes. Featuring more great stories by John Dickson Carr, Julian Symons and Marjorie Allingham alongside newly rediscovered writers, this selection of stories will bring you more insight into one of the most celebrated and dazzling sub-genres of detective fiction.
Paperback £10.99
ISBN 978 0 7123 5563 6
352 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Published September 2025
Death in Ambush
A Lost Christmas Murder Mystery
Susan Gilruth
In a tranquil village, Dr Sandys and his wife are preparing for Christmas with their guest, Liane ‘Lee’ Crauford. Festivities start badly when their party is spoiled by an enigmatic widow new to the village, and the atmosphere hits rock bottom when the pompous local nobleman and ceramiccollector Sir Henry Metcalfe unexpectedly dies. Sensing potential villains among Metcalfe’s circle, Lee teams up with DetectiveInspector Hugh Gordon to discover the killer playing merry hell with her holiday in this lost vintage mystery, republished for the first time since 1952.
Paperback £10.99
ISBN 978 0 7123 5588 9
288 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Published October 2025
Death in High Heels
Christianna Brand
The pursuit of fashion is a matter of life and death in the debut novel from Christianna Brand, one of the Queens of Golden Age crime fiction. Life in the Regent Street dress shop Christophe et Cie is hard enough with all the pressures of delivering Frank Bevan’s business vision – and then comes murder, delivered by oxalic acid, transforming the boutique into a crime scene. Featuring a colourful cast of designers, models, shop floor assistants and the freshfaced Inspector Charlesworth, this 1941 mystery brims with Brand’s signature wit and ruthless twists.
Paperback £10.99
ISBN 978 0 7123 5524 7
256 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Published November 2025
Still
Waters
A Lake District Mystery
E C R Lorac
Trouble is brewing once more for the Hoggetts and their friend Chief Inspector Macdonald in Lunesdale, deep in the Lancashire fell country. The treacherous slopes and still waters of a quarry pool have become the backdrop for strange happenings by night, and after an architect surveying the area is nearly hoisted into the cold waters by an unseen assailant, the suspicions of local farmers become a matter for the CID. Lorac’s authentic writing of the Lunesdale countryside is paired with a twisting plot in this classic of lake district crime fiction, first published in 1949.
Paperback £10.99
ISBN 978 0 7123 5534 6
240 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Published December 2025
British Library Tales of the Weird
Weird Sisters
Tales from the Queens of the Pulp Era
Edited by Mike Ashley
Featuring an introduction and biographical notes by veteran editor Mike Ashley, this collection offers ghostly thrills, shapeshifting horrors and monstrous coming-of-age narratives from Weird Tales stalwarts such as Mary Elizabeth Counselman, alongside more surprising authors such as Lucy M Montgomery. This new selection also includes a 1990s classic by Tanith Lee, the queen of Weird Tales magazine’s revival era, and a recently rediscovered gem of mythical horror by Evangeline Walton.
Paperback £9.99
ISBN 978 0 7123 5522 3
288 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Published January 2025
Julia Roseingrave
Robert Paye, with an introduction by
John C Tibbetts
One night, a wearied traveller dressed as the Devil claims to be heir to the manor which for generations has remained lordless. But among its benighted tenants the titular beauty, Julia, has been waiting. As whispers of witchcraft echo through the grounds, a cursed romance begins to smoulder – and the spectre of death draws near.
Written by the author most famously known as Marjorie Bowen and first published in 1933, this historical novella of Gothic love returns to print alongside six deliciously dark short tales from the British Library vaults, bubbling with wickedness and the occult.
Paperback £9.99
ISBN 978 0 7123 5532 2
256 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Published February 2025
Spores of Doom
Dank Tales of the Fungal Weird
Edited by Aaron Worth
From the fungus-webbed nightmares of the House of Usher to shambling monstrosities zombified by spores, weird fiction has harboured a thriving culture of fungal terrors which continues to exert its influence on the landscape of modern horror.
Bustling with themes of possession, apocalyptic dread and body horror, this new selection plucks twelve strange stories and one poem from the past two centuries to trace the wanton growth of a mushrooming sub-genre, with uncanny literary morsels from H G Wells, Mark Samuels, Charlotte Perkins Gilman and Robert Aickman.
Paperback
£10.99
ISBN 978 0 7123 5562 9
288 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Published March 2025
Medusa
A Novel of Mystery, Ecstasy and Strange Horror
E H Visiak, with an introduction by Aaron Worth
Somewhere around the early eighteenth century, a sea voyage in search of a mariner’s missing son gradually finds itself drawn towards an ancient and indescribable terror of the ocean.
Combining elements of Conradian sea adventure with Atlantean mythology and a uniquely unsettling brand of metaphysical, sublime horror – all delivered in E H Visiak’s high literary style –Medusa returns to print featuring a new introduction by horror expert Aaron Worth.
Paperback £10.99
ISBN 978 0 7123 5572 8
224 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Published April 2025
Return of the Ancients
Unruly Tales of the Mythological Weird
Edited by Katy Soar
The dark tendrils of mythological gods and monsters have remained embedded in the minds of those who once believed, inspiring a haunting sub-genre of uncanny fiction.
Collecting up strange tales of legendary Greco-Roman figures, pagan deities of Old Britain and godlings and abominations from the world’s pantheons returning to wreak havoc on modern civilization, this new anthology presents a thrilling array of weird fiction touched by the otherworldly and eternal mystique of myth, lore and legends.
Paperback £10.99
ISBN 978 0 7123 5567 4
320 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Published May 2025
Phantoms of Kernow
Classic Tales of Haunted Cornwall
Edited by Joan Passey
As the storm booms out in the bay and the waves smash against the rocks, the masts of a cursed and spectral vessel are drawing near. As the mists roll over Bodmin moor, the moonlight reveals a night alive with spirits.
Welcoming a fresh roster of seaside spectres, tin-mine terrors and holiday haunters, this return to the bountiful fold of Cornish horror fiction features more lost classics from Victorian periodicals alongside atmospheric tales from the great twentieth-century writers of the Cornish weird such as Mary Williams, Mary Butts and Sabine Baring-Gould.
Paperback £10.99
ISBN 978 0 7123 5577 3
288 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Published June 2025
The Wayfarer’s Weird
Wild Tales of Uncanny Rambles
Edited by Weird Walk
Paperback £10.99
ISBN 978 0 7123 5548 3 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Published August 2025
Weird Walk began as three friends walking a prehistoric trackway across southern England. Since then, by walking the ancient paths, visiting the sacred sites, and immersing themselves in Britain’s folklore and customs, they have worked to promote the magic at the heart of rambling through publishing, music and events. Their first Tales of the Weird volume, The Haunted Trail, was published in 2024.
“Come to-night,” I heard the old man say, “come to me to-night into the Wood of the Dead.”
Join Weird Walk for a new journey into the ghostly and bizarre, striking out from the shelter of the inn for the places where the path begins to fade, from the sublime wilderness of mountains, coasts and ravines to forbidden, ancient tracts of woodland.
Featuring disorientating classics from John Buchan and Algernon Blackwood alongside modern, thrilling (and sometimes violent) warnings to the intrepid from Lisa Tuttle and Dorothy K Haynes, The Wayfarer’s Weird leads you towards fae dangers, down lost tracks in time and deep into the liminal spaces of Britain and beyond.
The Lost Stradivarius
J Meade Falkner
The discovery of a beautiful Stradivarius violin in a hidden cupboard at Magdalen Hall, Oxford, appears to be a stroke of good fortune for music student John Maltravers. But there is something sinister in the violin’s history – something corrupt which threatens to re-emerge as the bewitched Maltravers plays and replays a devilish tune he is powerless to resist. First published in 1895, The Lost Stradivarius has garnered a revered status as a true classic of strange fiction, described by the famed critic E F Bleiler as the novel M R James might have written, had he written novels.
Paperback £10.99
ISBN 978 0 7123 5538 4 224 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Published July 2025
The Tiger-Skin
And Other Tales of the Uneasy
by Violet Hunt
Edited by Melissa Edmundson
A meeting of lost souls in the care of a headless coachman. An obsession with eugenics descends into a cruel madness. In 1911, the British writer, feminist and literary salon hostess Violet Hunt published her groundbreaking first collection of uncanny stories, Tales of the Uneasy, exploring psychological and ghostly hauntings shot through with tragedy. Seeking to promote Hunt’s achievements as a writer – often obscured by the famous authors of her social set – literary historian Melissa Edmundson presents a new edition of her eeriest work.
Paperback £10.99
ISBN 978 0 7123 5578 0 320 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Published September 2025
All the Fear of the Fair
Uncanny Tales of Circus and Sideshow
Edited by Edward Parnell
Paperback £10.99
ISBN 978 0 7123 5509 4
288 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Published October 2025
The Haunted Library
Tales of Cursed Books and Forbidden Shelves
Edited by Tanya Kirk
Paperback £10.99
ISBN 978 0 7123 5529 2
288 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Published November 2025
Step right up to see the enchanted Ferris wheel whose rewards are to die for! Marvel at the man-eating menagerie and dreadful secrets of ‘Satan’s Circus’! Behold the nightmare waxworks of Mrs. Groby’s Chamber of Horrors! Carnivals and sideshows are settings entwined with horror cinema, but in literature, there is a strain of uncanny fairground fiction with even deeper roots. Presenting sixteen sensational short stories, between the 1840s and the 1960s, Edward Parnell invites you to enjoy a cavalcade of uneasy thrills courtesy of Ray Bradbury, Margery Lawrence and many more.
A manuscript on loan delivers doom to its seeker. An uncanny tome enthrals its reader to a course of evil. Welcome to the Haunted Library, a collection of cursed tales steeped in the arcane secrets and dark psychic traces to be found in the stacks and shelves of libraries, museums and other treasure troves of hidden knowledge. First published by the British Library in 2016, this expanded edition features several new stories and an updated introduction by Tanya Kirk, now ensconced in the realm of Jamesian terrors as librarian at St John’s College, Cambridge.
Possessed
A Lost Novel of the Occult
Edward and Rosalie Synton, with an introduction by Johnny Mains
Paperback £10.99
ISBN 978 0 7123 5539 1
224 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Published December 2025
John Travers has been hanged for the murder of his mother-in-law Helga, but to those who knew him something is amiss. Driven by justice and a sense of uncanny forces at work, John’s friend Doctor Toogood recounts a haunting tale of love and jealousy under the fell influence of a shadowy and implacable evil. First published in 1927, this novel by husband-and-wife Edward and Rosalie Synton (real surname Corse-Scott) has been lost for nearly a century and returns now from the Library collections to deliver its occult thrills anew.
Bewitched
The Ghostly Tales of Edith Wharton
Edited by Mike Ashley
Hardback £16.99
ISBN 978 0 7123 5587 2
288 pages, 210 x 149 mm
Published March 2025
Edith Wharton (1862–1937) was an American writer whose best-known works are The House of Mirth (1905) and The Age of Innocence (1920), for which Edith won the Pulitzer Prize, becoming the first woman ever to do so. As well as writing novels, she wrote over eighty short stories and published the celebrated collections of uncanny stories Tales of Men and Ghosts (1910), Xingu and Other Stories (1916) and her collection of personal favourites, Ghosts (1937).
She leaned closer, her voice dropping. “I seen ’em.”
In the ashen light from the veiling of snow beyond the windows the Deacon’s little screwed-up eyes seemed to give out red sparks. “Him and the dead?”
“Him and the dead.”
Best known for her literary novels such as The House of Mirth and the PulitzerPrize-winning The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton was also a masterful weaver of chilling short tales who earned a reputation in the early twentieth century as one of America’s finest ghost story writers.
Drawing from a lifetime of supernatural short-story writing, this new selection from genre expert Mike Ashley presents eleven of Wharton’s most unnerving tales, including rarely anthologised works from the British Library’s collections. Featuring a biographical essay exploring how Wharton’s turbulent life influenced her macabre imagination, this volume is a celebration of the author’s signature brand of the weird and uneasy.
The Dead of Summer
Strange Tales of May Eve and Midsummer
Edited by Johnny Mains
May Day Eve, Walpurgis Night and Midsummer Eve – or the Summer Solstice. Tales of these fated days and nights, and their riotous rituals and feasts, have rung down the centuries, and yet in today’s world those that observe their ancient ways are few.
Setting out on a mission to reweird this lost stretch of the ritual year, Johnny Mains returns with a collection of tales of the bizarre, the beastly and the brutal to welcome the summer and raise the cry: The Weird is Icumen in!
Hardback £16.99
ISBN 978 0 7123 5528 5 320 pages, 210 x 149 mm
Published April 2025
The Strange Stories of John
Buchan
Edited by James Machin
To mark the 150th anniversary of Scottish author John Buchan’s birth, strange fiction expert James Machin presents a new selection of the writer’s best uncanny fiction, including stories from The Runagates Club.
Though best known today as the author of The Thirty-Nine Steps, this new volume aims to foreground his contribution to the early weird tale, including some of his most classic stories alongside a number rescued from rare periodicals of the early twentieth century.
Hardback £16.99
ISBN 978 0 7123 5582 7 240 pages, 210 x 149 mm
Published June 2025
Illusions of Presence
Lost Christmas Ghost Stories
Edited by Johnny Mains
Hardback £16.99
ISBN 978 0 7123 5593 3
256 pages, 210 x 149 mm
Published October 2025
Johnny Mains is an eminent horror anthologist renowned for recovering lost stories from the archives. His books edited for the British Library include Celtic Weird (2022), Scotland the Strange (2023), Halloweird (2024) and The Dead of Summer (2025). His latest books are Bound in Blood (Titan, 2024), The Anthologist’s Folly (Ramble House, 2024) and His Beautiful Hands: The Short Fiction of Oscar Cook (Ramble House, 2025).
“Oh! Grandmamma, do tell us a story—a nice, horrible ghost story.”
A trip to the dentist becomes a ghoulish ordeal on Christmas Eve. Blood spilt over a Christmas wedding begets a ghostly vengeance. In the dark of a mine, an elemental spirit claims its Yuletide sacrifice.
The Christmas ghost story is a cornerstone of supernatural writing, with a legacy stretching back centuries, and scores of classic tales awaiting rediscovery. Returning from a hunt through the murk of newspaper and journal archives, eminent anthologist Johnny Mains brings you the gift of fifteen long-lost yarns spun for weird Christmas days and nights.
With tales penned by Victorian novelists, anonymous enigmas and 1920s pulp writers, this sparkling selection of rarities is a festive riot of the spectral and macabre.
Stories for Mothers & Daughters
A S Byatt, Maeve Brennan, Jeanette Winterson and more
Paperback with flaps £10.99
ISBN 978 0 7123 5537 7
224 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Published February 2025
This new anthology brings together the creative minds of:
Richmal Crompton
Sylvia Townsend Warner
Jeanette Winterson
Jamaica Kincaid
A S Byatt
Inez Holden
Winifred Holtby
Janet Frame
E M Delafield
Tillie Olsen
I fit perfectly in the crook of my mother’s arm, on the curve of her back, in the hollow of her stomach. We eat from the same bowl, drink from the same cup; when we sleep, our heads rest on the same pillow.
From forthright mothers and very modern daughters to the quiet dreamers on either side of the generational divide, this anthology sketches a joyous, fraught, and ultimately tender portrait of mother-daughter relationships throughout the twentieth century.
Across the decades, women writers return to perpetual teenage daughters that rebel against the specter of maternal tradition and mothers who start to see their own mothers’ shadows on the wall. Brought together in this collection is a moving testament to the inextricable and ineffable bond between mothers and daughters, in all its lovely and imperfect forms.
The Spring Begins
Katherine Dunning
Set against the vast gardens and private coastline of a beautiful country house, three domestic servants awaken to the possibilities of life and love: the young nurse-maid Lottie, the scullery maid Maggie, and Hessie Price, an older governess. Katherine Dunning (1900–1975) was born in County Wicklow, Ireland. After the death of her father, the family moved to Sussex, where Rhona began writing under a pen name to support the family.
Paperback with flaps £10.99
ISBN 978 0 7123 5597 1
272 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Published March 2025
The Woman in the Hall
G B Stern
Lorna Blake is a woman able to create her own reality – a pathological liar, narcissist conman and devoted single mother to two daughters. When her eldest needs lifesaving treatment they cannot afford, Lorna begins a risky but thrilling scheme; taking her daughters to the halls of wealthy strangers to beg. G B Stern (1890–1973) was a prolific writer best known in her lifetime for her series The Matriarch. She was also a playwright and saw several of her books adapted onto screen, including The Woman in the Hall in 1947.
Paperback with flaps £10.99
ISBN 978 0 7123 5523 0
352 pages, 190 x 130 mm
Published May 2025
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