British Library Publishing Catalogue Spring 2024 (January - June)

Black British Music

The Book of the British Library Exhibition

Edited by Paul Bradshaw and introduced by Aleema Gray and Mykaell Riley

Black musicians have found themselves at the heart of British culture for some 500 years and, in the course of the last 50, have not only transformed the creative landscape but now define music in the UK with acts like Stormzy and Ezra Collective.

Final cover TBC

Hardback £30

ISBN 978 0 7123 5489 9

240 pages, 250 x 182 mm

120+ colour photographs and artworks Publishing April 2024

Paul Bradshaw began his career as a music journalist in the 70s. 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

This book accompanies the 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 and punk to soul and rap and onwards through Garage, 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 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.

Photograph on opposite page On the dance floor at the Sunset Club in Soho, London, December 1951. TopFoto.

The Art of the Scribe

Practical Projects Inspired by the Calligraphy and Illuminations of Medieval Manuscripts

Patricia Lovett

Practical Projects Inspired by the Calligraphy and Illuminations of Medieval Manuscripts

Patricia Lovett

Pages from some of the most celebrated and exquisite medieval manuscripts in the British Library 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 quill strokes required to produce them. Each chapter ends with three complementary projects based on aspects of the manuscripts’ design and layout shown in preceding pages; these range from simple to more technical.

Final cover TBC

Hardback £35

ISBN 978 0 7123 5484 4

240 pages, 264 x 206 mm

150+ colour illustrations

Publishing June 2024

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 Chair of the Heritage and Crafts Association. She has published extensively on calligraphy, including The Art & History of Calligraphy for the British Library.

Manuscripts from the British Library, Bibliotheque Nationale de France and the Getty Museum have been selected, and projects are illustrated with step-bystep photographs and beautiful images of the finished works.

A substantial Part II provides vital guidance on specialist tools and materials, as well as practical techniques, such as cutting quills, mixing inks and paints, and preparing pigments and shell gold.

The Book Lover’s European Bucket List

A Grand Tour of Literature

Caroline Taggart

Final cover TBC

Hardback £18.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5494 3

224 pages, 210 x 150 mm

100+ illustrations

Publishing May 2024

Caroline Taggart worked in publishing as an editor of popular non-fiction for thirty years before writing I Used to Know That, which became a Sunday Times bestseller. Her other books include The Book of English Place Names, A Slice of Britain: Around the Country by Cake and The Book Lover’s Bucket List, which was published by the British Library in 2021.

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 Mary Shelly and in Sweden for Astrid Lindgren; visit Cervantes’ statue in Madrid dating back to 1835 and explore the French Riviera through the eyes of F. Scott Fitzgerald.

The entries stretch from Homer in the eighth century BCE all the way to modern-day Scandi Noir, Sally Rooney’s Dublin and Elena Ferrante’s Naples.

Accompanied by colour destination photographs and illustrations, mainly from the British Library Collections, this book is sure to inspire real travel and vicarious vacations alike. Lose yourself in the Venice of Thomas Mann, Edith Wharton and Donna Leon, then retreat by train to the romantic streets of Verona in search of Romeo and Juliet.

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The Philosophy of Cider

Jane Peyton

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 invasion, which introduced new apple varieties and pressing technologies to Britain, to the colonists of America, who took apples with them, planted the seeds and drank cider long before beer brewing was properly established.

Hardback £10

ISBN 978 0 7123 5505 6

112 pages, 200 x 130 mm

30+ mono illustrations

Publishing June 2024

Jane Peyton is the UK’s first accredited Pommelier (cider sommelier) and Principal of the School of Booze. She is an award-winning writer and, as an alcoholic drinks expert has also penned the Gin, Cocktails and Beer titles in The Philosophy of... series.

Today their legacy is sustained in the traditional orchards and processes of craft cider-makers; the folk traditions of the British Wassail and Txotx celebrations of the Basque Country; and the ethos of the Slow Food Movement.

In addition to explaining cider’s links to champagne and why we are enjoying a renaissance of both cider- and perrymaking, Jane provides tasting tips and food pairings to help any aspiring cider drinker. Welcome to Ciderland.

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Magna Carta

Claire Breay

No free man shall be seized or imprisoned, or stripped of his rights or possessions … nor will we proceed with force against him, or send others to do so, except by the lawful judgement of his equals or by the law of the land.

To no one will we sell, to no one deny or delay right or justice.

These statements, buried deep in the text of King John’s Magna Carta, lie at the root of its fame but they were not central to its original purpose. Yet the intrinsic adaptability of such clauses elevated Magna Carta to its subsequent iconic status.

Final cover TBC

Paperback with flaps £9.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5510 0

96 pages, 195 x 140 mm

35 colour illustrations

Publishing May 2024

Claire Breay is Head of Ancient, Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts at the British Library.

This book, the first in a new series, explores the roles of the protagonists involved in Magna Carta’s creation in 1215 and describes the political situation in England at the time – the wars with France, the king’s exploitation of the feudal system, the barons’ financial grievances, abuses in the administration of justice and the king’s relationship with the Church. Illustrated throughout, and with a complete text translation, the book explores the context in which Magna Carta was issued, in order to understand what it really meant to its creators and to those who have used and revered it since.

Uncanny Ireland

Otherworldly Tales of the Strange and Sublime

Edited by Maria Giakaniki

Suddenly the upper rim of the clear setting sun disappeared behind the hill of Knockdoula, and it was twilight. Each child felt the transition like a shock ... and the rounded summit of Lisnavoura, now closely overhanging them, struck them with a new fear.

Final cover TBC

Hardback £16.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5520 9 320 pages, 210 x 149 mm Publishing March 2024

Maria Giakaniki is a researcher and editor based in Athens with an expertise in Gothic fiction and Irish literature. She co-edited the Swan River Press collection Bending to Earth: Strange Stories by Irish Women with Brian J. Showers, and is the manager of the Gothic fiction publishing house Ars Nocturna.

Ireland’s rich literary history has within it a vein of potent fantastic fiction, drawing upon a deep folkloric tradition brimming with tales of the aos sí (the people of the fairy mounds), the Otherworld and timeless deities. Writers in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries added a new chapter to this tradition, reworking elements of folklore into modern tales of the weird and macabre.

Featuring stories by classic authors such as Sheridan Le Fanu and Charlotte Riddell alongside pieces by Lady Gregory, Katharine Tynan, Elizabeth Bowen and many more.

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British Library Crime Classics Impact of Evidence

A Mystery in Wales

Carol Carnac

Paperback £9.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5525 4 256 pages, 190 x 130 mm Publishing January 2024

Carol Carnac is a pen name of Edith Caroline Rivett (1894–1958), a prolific English crime writer who also found success under her pseudonym E C R Lorac. She was a member of the prestigious Detection Club, and was particularly lauded for her sense of detail and atmospheric settings. Her books include Murder by Matchlight, Bats in the Belfry and Fell Murder, all available as British Library Crime Classics.

It was a chill afternoon in February, and the sun was just setting in a rosepink haze behind the tors of Creffyn…

In the Welsh borders, isolated by heavy snow and flooding from the thaw, cut off from telephone access, a tragedy has occurred. Old Dr Robinson known to be ‘a menace’ on the roads has met his end in a car crash, his big saloon thrown from the track down the steep hillside. But when the police arrive there is more to the tragedy than meets the eye: why was there a second body – an outsider to these parts – in the back of the vehicle?

As the local inspectors dive into the muddy waters of this strange crime, Chief Inspector Julian Rivers and Inspector Lancing of Scotland Yard are called to investigate, with danger and deceit lying in wait among the lonely hills and authentically evoked landscapes.

Fear Stalks the Village

Ethel Lina White

Paperback £9.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5530 8

240 pages, 190 x 130 mm Publishing February 2024

Ethel Lina White (1876–1944) was an author from Abergavenny whose novels and short stories in the crime, suspense and horror genres were immensely popular during the 1930s and 1940s. Though she remains best-known as the writer of The Wheel Spins, also republished in the British Library Crime Classics series in 2023, she was an influential figure in the Golden Age of crime fiction whose reputation, in her heyday, rivalled those of Agatha Christie and Dorothy L Sayers.

This village seems an earthly paradise, with a population of kindly gracious souls. But the flowers are growing on slime. When twilight falls, they light their lamps and draw down their blinds. And then – when no one can see them they lead their real lives.

A novelist ambles down the lanes of a cosy country village, replete with Tudor houses and quaint cottages. In her writer’s mind she pictures the sordid truth beyond the veneer, a seemingly laughable proposition – until the coming of the letters. Anonymous letters from a poisoned pen, sowing discord and defaming everybody from the Rector to the ‘queen of the village’ Miss Decima Asprey. Naturally, where there is venom in the air and dark secrets are threatening to come to light, the shadow of death is not far behind.

Ethel Lina White’s 1932 classic is one of the foundation stones of the village mystery sub-genre of crime fiction. Revelling in the delicious contrast of angelic outer appearances and the wickedness behind the facade, White’s novel is a witty and satisfying interwar mystery.

A Telegram from Le Touquet

John Bude

As he walked away from the phone there was a puzzled expression on Blampignon’s massive countenance. He was thinking: Le Touquet again!

For Nigel Derry, Easter celebrations at the country house of his charming though unpredictable aunt Gwenny Marrable were a highlight of the calendar. This year, the knife fight between the guests somewhat tarnished the experience. Disgruntled following the fracas, Gwenny departs for France, telegramming her nephew from Le Touquet asking him to join her in the South at the beautiful Villa Paradou. When he arrives at the Côte d’Azur, it is too late – Gwenny Marrable has been found murdered.

Paperback £9.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5535 3

256 pages, 190 x 130 mm Publishing March 2024

John Bude was the pseudonym of Ernest Elmore (1901–1957), an author of the Golden Age of crime fiction. Elmore was a co-founder of the Crime Writers’ Association, and worked in the theatre as a producer and director. Other John Bude mysteries available as British Library Crime Classics include The Cheltenham Square Murder, Death on the Riviera and The Cornish Coast Murder

To complicate matters for Inspector Blampignon of the Sûreté Nationale, it seems that the victim may have been killed in the north of France, 800 miles away from where she was discovered. The eccentric Blampignon embarks on a thrilling race to discover the truth in one of John Bude’s rarest and most spirited mystery novels.

London Particular

Christianna Brand

Paperback £9.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5540 7

256 pages, 190 x 130 mm

Publishing April 2024

Christianna Brand (1907–1988) was born in British Malaya and was one of the most celebrated crime writers of the twentieth century. She is best known for her mystery novels featuring Inspector Cockrill along with the Nurse Matilda books for children, which were adapted for screen as Nanny McPhee. The Cockrill novels Green for Danger, Death of Jezebel and Suddenly at His Residence have been published as British Library Crime Classics.

Miss Brand’s London Particular is an ingenious murder story. Times Literary Supplement, 1952

Night falls in London, and a ‘London particular’ pea-souper fog envelops the city. In Maida Vale, Rose and her family doctor Tedwards race through the dark after a man has telephoned claiming that he has been struck by an assailant in Rose’s house. Arriving after an achingly protracted journey through the impenetrable fog, the victim, Raoul Vernet, is dead. The news which he had brought from Switzerland for Rose’s mother, was never delivered.

Seven suspects had the opportunity –though their alibis are muddled by the obscuring blanket of fog – but who among them had a motive? And as friends to each other, would every one of them claim responsibility to protect another? Inspector Cockrill – also a friend of the family – has a fiendish case ahead of him as his young rival Inspector Charlesworth joins the investigation, keen to see justice done for this unusual murder.

First published in 1952 and with its setting based on Brand’s own home, the author cited this mystery as her favourite among her many classics.

Lessons in Crime Academic Mysteries

Edited by Martin Edwards

Dr Greeby was found lying dead there, with his lecture-notes scattered all round him and brickbat in a woollen sock lying beside his head.

An Oxford Master slain on campus during Pentecost. A pupil and teacher face off with a conniving uncle suspected of murder. A sociology student turns the tables on the lies and fictions of an English undergraduate.

Paperback £10.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5545 2

288 pages, 190 x 130 mm Publishing May 2024

Martin Edwards is series consultant for British Library Crime Classics. He is a CWA Diamond Dagger Awardwinning crime writer and president of the Detection Club. He has researched and explored the history of the crime and mystery genre in titles such as The Golden Age of Murder, The Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books –published by the British Library – and The Life of Crime.

In the hush of the college library and the cacophonies of school halls, tensions run higher than is healthy and academic achievement can be to die for. Delving into the stacks and tomes of the British Library collections, Martin Edwards invites you to a course on the darker side of scholarly ambition with an essential reading list of masterful short stories.

With a teaching cohort including esteemed writers such as Dorothy L Sayers, Celia Fremlin, Michael Innes and the commanding Arthur Conan Doyle, this new anthology offers an education in the beguiling art of mystery writing.

Before the Fact

Adapted for film by Alfred Hitchcock as Suspicion

Frances Iles

Paperback £9.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5550 6 256 pages, 190 x 130 mm Publishing June 2024

Frances Iles was a pen name of Anthony Berkeley Cox (1893–1971), one of the most important figures in the history of British crime fiction. As well as being the author of many classic detective stories, Berkeley was the founder of the prestigious Detection Club for the finest crime writers.

Some women give birth to murderers, some go to bed with them, and some marry them. Lina Aysgarth had lived with her husband for nearly eight years before she realized that she was married to a murderer.

Following the success of Malice

Aforethought, novelist Anthony Berkeley Cox returned to his Frances Iles pen-name for another experiment in the inverted mystery. Where Malice Aforethought is a study of murder from the perpetrator’s perspective, Before the Fact is a masterful tale of the suspicions of a possible victim and her impressions of disquieting husband Johnnie.

Unsettling and gripping for its incisive portrayal of human emotion and fears, this experimental classic of crime fiction was the basis for Alfred Hitchcock’s film Suspicion, but remains an arresting literary read today.

Possibly the best shocker ever written. The English Review

for backlist, see pages 37–42

Forest Silver

British Library Women Writers 1940s

E M Ward

Final cover TBC

Paperback with flaps £9.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5580 3

256 pages, 190 x 130 mm Publishing February 2024

E M Ward (Edith Marjorie Ward (1886–1955)) was a novelist and geographer whose work often focused on the Lake District which she made her home, living in Grasmere for much of her life. Her novels set in the Lake District, other parts of NorthEast Britain, and Switzerland are long overdue rediscovery.

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 seemed sinister in the bodiless and blanched moonshine.

A novel rich in the period culture of the Lake District, Forest Silver unfolds a story of village life unsettled with the arrival of evacuees during the Second World War. Wing-Commander Richard Blunt, recovering from a life-changing injury, comes into the orbit of the enigmatic and headstrong Corys de Bainrigg in a tale of love, longing and facing up to reality, with the ghost of wartime trauma ever an unwelcome guest.

First published in 1941, Forest Silver is an important work of Lake District fiction, in which E M Ward evokes her environment with pitch-perfect authenticity.

Stories for Summer And Days by the Pool

Join a host of female writers in celebrating the sunshine months of the year. As a sister volume to Stories for Winter, this collection of 15 short stories takes its inspiration from the holiday season. Grab a copy as you head off to the beach or to lie by the pool and spend time with female protagonists as they navigate life during the hot summer days and long balmy evenings. In keeping with the spirit of the Women Writers series, the stories are penned by authors whose writing originally appeared in books and magazines in the twentieth century.

Final cover TBC

Paperback with flaps £9.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5515 5

240 pages, 190 x 130 mm

Publishing June 2024

Launched in 2020, the British Library Women Writers series is a curated collection of novels and anthologies by female authors who enjoyed broad, popular appeal in their day. In a century during which the role of women in society changed radically, their fictional heroines highlight women’s experience of life inside and outside the home through the decades in these rich, insightful and evocative stories.

for backlist, see pages 33–36

Doomed Romances

Strange Tales of Uncanny Love

Edited by Jo Parsons

‘My darling, come to me!’

At the instant when he attempted to embrace her his arms, suddenly turning rigid, remained outstretched. With a shriek of horror, he struggled to draw them back – struggled, in the empty brightness of the sunshine, as if some invisible grip had seized him.

Enter a world of dark romance, where Gothic tragedy meets tales of transgression against society and where death’s parting of lovers may only be a temporary barrier.

Paperback £9.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5555 1

272 pages, 190 x 130 mm Publishing January 2024

Jo Parsons is a Lecturer in English and Creative Writing at Falmouth University whose research is treading new ground in the field of Erotica and Romantic Fictions. Her new project explores popular women’s writing from 1970–2000 with an emphasis on the Bonkbuster.

Romantic fiction expert Jo Parsons is the matchmaker between the reader and a carousel of authors from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries whose bewitching, classic short stories explore unearthly passions, ghostings (of the Gothic kind) and demonic dalliances.

The Undying Monster

A Tale of the Fifth Dimension

Jessie Douglas Kerruish, with an introduction by Mike Ashley

Where grow pines and firs amain, Under Stars, sans heat or rain, Chief of Hammand, ‘ware thy Bane!’

Final cover TBC

Paperback £9.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5493 6

304 pages, 190 x 130 mm Publishing February 2024

Jessie Douglas Kerruish (1884–1949) was a British writer of romantic, horror, and historical fiction, descended from an ancient Manx family. She was a regular contributor to The Weekly Tale-Teller, finding success with the publication of Miss Haroun-al-Raschid (1917) and The Girl from Kurdistan (1918), novels set in North Africa and the Middle East, before publishing her best-known work, The Undying Monster, 1922.

The Hammand family os Sussex have been hounded by an ancient curse for generations; now, after the close of the First World War, the only two survivors are Oliver and Swanhild. When Oliver is beset by a creature in the forest surrounding the Hammand estate, the siblings resolve to meet the curse head on before it seals their fate in the form of a violent death. Enlisting the service of the occult detective, Yorkshire’s Luna Bartendale, the investigation begins to unshackle the Hammands from their doom, and the stage is set for confrontation with an immortal force born of black magic, with roots stretching into the ancient Anglo-Saxon and Viking history of southern Britain.

First published in 1922, The Undying Monster secured Jessie Douglas Kerruish’s place in the history of British Weird fiction. The novel was adapted for the screen in 1942, and remains one of the definitive twentieth-century tales of shapeshifting and occult detection.

Out of the Past Tales

of Haunting History

Edited by Aaron Worth

A tale of callous murder and deranged revenge rings out from fifteenth century Italy. A witch-finder’s great triumph is also the herald of his own doom in sixteenth-century Britain. A prisoner’s fate at the hands of the Inquisition in seventeenth-century Mexico leads to an encounter with the bestial and bizarre beneath the waves.

Paperback £9.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5560 5

288 pages, 190 x 130 mm Publishing March 2024

Aaron Worth is professor of Rhetoric at Boston University. He introduced and edited the Tales of the Weird anthologies Randalls Round and The Night Wire, and was the author of Imperial Media, a study of how advances in media and technology shaped the British literary imagination in the late nineteenth century.

Readers and writers have been fascinated with the past long before the term ‘historical fiction’ became recognised as its own genre of writing. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, tellers of strange tales saw the weird potential in setting stories within the realms of previous centuries, and the chance to evoke terrors throughout time.

This new collection summons stories from the eras of witchcraft, the English Civil War, tall-ship high seas exploration and ante-revolution New England, with contributions by M P Shiel, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Elizabeth Gaskell, Mary Shelley and many more.

Fear in the Blood

Tales from the Dark Lineages of the Weird

Edited by Mike Ashley

Sheridan Le Fanu and his niece, Rhoda Broughton. Louisa Baldwin and her nephew, Rudyard Kipling. Nathaniel Hawthorne, his son, Julian, and his grand-daughter, Hildegarde. Joan Aiken and her father, Conrad.

The greatest storytellers of the weird and uncanny are conduits of the supernatural and macabre, channelling through their writing secret glimpses into the sublime, or into worlds of terror. In this new anthology, Mike Ashley traces the phenomenon of families in which that skill for channelling the weird seems to pass down the bloodlines, cultivating family trees whose output forms a large part of the canon of speculative fiction.

Paperback £9.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5565 0

288 pages, 190 x 130 mm Publishing April 2024

Mike Ashley is an author, anthologist and editor with a specialism for seeking out rare strange stories from the periodicals and magazines of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He is an expert in the fields of weird fiction and classic mystery stories, and an authority on the development of the occult detection tale.

Mike’s selection includes a story from each family member in a given lineage – focusing on tales in which family relationships are a core element – to bestow the reader with the chilling gifts of generations of fearful fiction.

Mike Ashley [is] perhaps our most redoubtable scholar of early genre literature.

Michael Dirda, The Washington Post

Deadly Dolls

Haunting Tales of the Uncanny

Edited by Elizabeth Dearnley

The sleeping wood had wakened. Her pearl teeth crashed against his with the sound of cymbals and her warm, fragrant breath blew around him like an Italian gale.

Dolls, mannequins, humanoid toys and dummies are the quintessential symbols of the uncanny, referenced by Freud in his foundational essay on the phenomenon of the familiar-turnedunsettling, and remaining a terrifying recurring menace of horror media today.

Paperback £9.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5570 4

272 pages, 190 x 130 mm Publishing May 2024

Elizabeth Dearnley is a folklorist, artist and researcher based at Edinburgh Napier University. Her work explores fairy tales, horror and collective storytelling, and she has curated several projects including The Sandman for the Freud Museum, London. Her anthology Into the London Fog was published in the British Library Tales of the Weird series and Fearsome Fairies was published in the British Library Hardback Horror series.

In this new collection, Elizabeth Dearnley revives a sinister troupe of uncannily animated figures from tales across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, by authors including E T A Hoffmann, Angela Carter, Vernon Lee, Algernon Blackwood and Rosemary Timperley.

Terror and nightmares await when the doors of the doll house swing open and its denizens come out to play.

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The Night Land

William Hope Hodgson

Final cover TBC

Paperback £10.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5575 9

448 pages, 190 x 130 mm Publishing June 2024

The ultimate saga of a fantasy world beleaguered by eternal night and the unvisageable spawn of darkness.

Clark Ashton Smith

For all its flaws and idiosyncrasies, The Night Land is utterly unsurpassed, unique, astounding. A mutant vision like nothing else there has ever been.

China Miéville

Aeons in the future, Earth’s surface faces perpetual night after the failing of the Sun. Humanity is entrenched within the Last Redoubt, a colossal metal pyramid. Beyond the safety of its structure lurk countless unknowable threats.

William Hope Hodgson’s strange, visionary novel of humanity’s struggle for survival in the eternal darkness of the future was first published in 1912, and is widely acknowledged to be one of the foundation works of the ‘Dying Earth’ subgenre of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Written in a style composed of strange archaisms which fuel the weird sense of disorientation, this cult classic has won the admiration of writers from Brian Aldiss to C S Lewis, who wrote: ‘[The Night Land gives], like certain rare dreams, sensations we never had before.’

William Hope Hodgson (1877–1918) was a key figure in British weird fiction, renowned for a huge body of work that consisted of essays, short fiction and novels that often fused together the horror, fantastic fiction and science fiction genres. Hodgson is remembered chiefly for his nautical horror stories and for his occult detective, Carnacki the Ghost-finder. Following his death near Ypres during the First World War, his stories continued to be published posthumously throughout the twentieth century. for backlist, see pages 43–46

Realms of Imagination

Essays from the Wide Worlds of Fantasy

Edited by Tanya Kirk & Matthew Sangster

Fantasy, we know, from the oldest stories in the oldest languages, has always been with us.

Neil Gaiman, ‘Preface’

Fantasy is an expansive genre, encompassing sprawling epics, ancient folklore, impossible worlds and forays into the dark and horrifying. In this new volume, twenty authors have mustered for a journey across four vast realms: Fairy and Folk Tales, Epics and Quests, the Weird and Uncanny, and Portals and Worlds.

Hardback £30

ISBN 978 0 7123 5449 3

272 pages, 250 x 182 mm

150+ colour illustrations

Published October 2023

Tanya Kirk is Lead Curator of Printed Heritage Collections 1601–1900 at the British Library. Matthew Sangster is Professor of Romantic Studies, Fantasy and Cultural History and Co-Director of the Centre for Fantasy and the Fantastic at the University of Glasgow. Tanya is the lead curator and Matthew is the external curator for the British Library exhibition Fantasy: Realms of Imagination (2023–4).

Here, you will find contributions from a host of writers including Maria Dahvana Headley, China Miéville, Sofia Samatar, Marina Warner and Terri Windling, alongside sage insights from expert British Library curators and Fantasy literature specialists.

Featuring awe-inspiring illustrations and representing the gamut of fantastic creativity from Gilgamesh to Ursula K. Le Guin, from Beowulf to the Brontës, and from The Dark Crystal to the Dark Souls franchise, Realms of Imagination is a treasure trove of new perspectives and fresh discoveries.

Shakespeare’s First Folio

400th Anniversary Facsimile Edition

With a new introduction by Adrian S Edwards and Tanya Kirk

Published to mark the 400th anniversary of the book’s original publication, this facsimile edition faithfully reproduces one of the finest copies held in the British Library collections.

The significance of the First Folio cannot be underestimated. It is the only contemporary source of eighteen of Shakespeare’s plays. Without it, performances of such popular plays as The Tempest, Twelfth Night and Macbeth would not be possible.

Facsimile casebound in real cloth with slipcase £125

ISBN 978 0 7123 5429 5

912 pages, 327 x 208 mm

Colour facsimile reproduction

Published October 2023

Adrian S Edwards is a rare books librarian and Head of Printed Heritage Collections. Tanya Kirk is is Lead Curator of Printed Heritage Collections 1601–1900.

Changes and corrections were made during the long printing process. Small alterations were also made to the (now iconic) portrait of Shakespeare created by Martin Droeshout for the title page. As a result, no two surviving copies of the First Folio are identical and few are complete. Of the 750 copies that were originally published, some 200 exist today. The British Library has five copies, one of which is complete, and it is this copy that is presented with an introductory booklet by curators Adrian S Edwards and Tanya Kirk.

The Book by Design

The Remarkable Story of the World’s Greatest Invention

Edited by P J M Marks & Stephen Parkin

Serpent, Siren, Maelstrom & Myth

Sea Stories & Folktales from Around the World

Retold & interpreted by Gerry Smyth

The Book by Design celebrates the book in all its forms, whether manuscript, scroll, concertina, movable, codex, digital. Based around 30 significant items in the Library’s collections, ranging from famous examples, such as The Grammar of Ornament to lesser-known formats such as Southeast Asian palm leaf books. Each example helps trace major moments in the history of this remarkable invention.

Shorter features on particular aspects of book production or book types make this book essential to the personal library of anyone passionate about books and their design.

Hardback £40

ISBN 978 0 7123 5404 2

288 pages, 264 x 206 mm

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.

Hardback with jacket £30

ISBN 978 0 7123 5419 6

296 pages, 234 x 156 mm

Tyndale’s The New Testament, 1526

The First English Bible

Translated from the Original Languages

by William Tyndale

The Book Lover’s Almanac

A Year of Literary Events, Letters, Scandals and Plot Twists

Alex Johnson

Though forbidden by the Church to translate the New Testament into English, William Tyndale’s determination resulted in its finally being printed in 1526. This translation contributed significantly to the text of the King James Version.

This complete facsimile edition, created from one of only two complete copies of the 1526 edition presents one of the most important books in English history in full colour and to the exact original specifications. Featuring an introduction by Professor David Daniell, former Chairman of the Tyndale Society.

Hardback £20

ISBN 978 0 7123 5448 6

720 pages, 165 x 115 mm

For each date, book lovers will find extracts from authors’ diaries and letters, chance upon the narrative twists and transformative moments in their favourite novels, discover the winners of prestigious awards and losers of creative squabbles, and the delivery of manuscript, first publication and performance.

Each month opens with a list of significant births and closes with a selection of pertinent last words, while entries roam across history from the great classics to modern authors.

Hardback £19.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5424 0

296 pages, 210 x 150 mm

The Philosophy of Chocolate

Sam Bilton

Dragons, Heroes, Myths & Magic

The Medieval Art of Storytelling Chantry Westwell

What makes chocolate so alluring? Why is it the inspiration for endless culinary creativity?

Sam Bilton explores our complex relationship with this versatile confection made from the humble beans of the tropical cacao tree.

Divided thematically, moving between ceremonial uses of chocolate and its reputed health properties to its production in the Americas and the exploitation of indigenous populations

This mouth-watering, illustrated book is rounded off with tasting tips and chocolate recipes to leave you feeling fully replete.

Hardback £10

ISBN 978 0 7123 5434 9

112 pages, 200 x 130 mm

Chantry Westwell has used her profound knowledge of the Library’s illuminated manuscript collections to explore some of literature’s most enduring and multi-layered stories, together with the deep history of the books and chronicles in which they were first preserved. These powerful tales are presented alongside some of the most exquisite examples of art to survive from the eighth to the sixteenth centuries as medieval artists responded to the inspiring storylines with their own works of supreme beauty.

Paperback with flaps £19.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5414 1

384 pages, 234 x 156 mm

The Burial of the Rats

And Other Tales of the Macabre

by Bram Stoker

Bram Stoker, edited by Xavier Aldana Reyes

Scotland the Strange

Weird Tales from Storied Lands

Edited by Johnny Mains

Beyond the genre-defining influence of Dracula, Bram Stoker was also a master of the short story form. This collection of the author’s tales represents his diverse interests in the macabre and uncanny, ranging from the hallucinatory and dreamlike in ‘The Shadow Builder’ to the more overtly horrifying in the minimasterpiece of ‘The Burial of the Rats’.

Alongside acknowledged classics, this new volume also includes obscurities such as the darkly comic ‘Old Hoggen: A Mystery’ and the morbid fairy tale ‘The Castle of the King’ to reflect the full brilliance of the legendary writer.

Hardback £14.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5444 8

256 pages, 210 x 149 mm

Following in the wake of the landmark anthology Celtic Weird (2022), Johnny Mains returns with a hoard of tales from two centuries of Scotland’s rich literary past. Stories translated from the Scots Gaelic, not reprinted since their original appearances in rare periodicals are here in the fold amidst the works of John Buchan, Dorothy K Haynes and Robert Louis Stevenson representing the peak of their weird writing.

Striding through the borderland where echoes of strange folklore, bizarre legends and twentieth-century hauntings meet, this volume promises to deliver chills evoking the whipping winds of the Scottish wilds.

Hardback £16.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5454 7

304 pages, 210 x 149 mm

British Library Women Writers

Stories for Winter

And Nights by the Fire

Angela Carter, Shirely Jackson, Katherine Mansfield & more

Introduction to Sally

British Library Women

Writers 1920s

Elizabeth von Arnim

One Year’s Time

British Library Women

Writers 1940s

Angela Milne

Paperback with flaps £9.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5469 1

240 pages, 190 x 130 mm

Sing Me Who You Are

British Library Women

Writers 1960s

Elizabeth Berridge

Paperback with flaps £9.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5474 5

272 pages, 190 x 130 mm

The Home

British Library Women

Writers 1970s

Penelope Mortimer

Paperback with flaps £9.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5457 8

288 pages, 190 x 130 mm

Paperback with flaps £9.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5487 5

224 pages, 190 x 130 mm

Paperback with flaps £9.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5492 9

224 pages, 190 x 130 mm

War Among Ladies

British Library Women

Writers 1920s

Eleanor Scott

Stories for Christmas

And the Festive Season

Muriel Spark, Stella Gibbons, E M Delafield & more

Keeping Up Appearances

British Library Women Writers 1920s

Rose Macaulay

Paperback with flaps £9.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5462 2

288 pages, 190 x 130 mm

Strange Journey

British Library Women

Writers 1930s

Maud Cairnes

Paperback with flaps £9.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5452 3

224 pages, 190 x 130 mm

A Pin to See the Peepshow

British Library Women

Writers 1930s

F Tennyson Jesse

Paperback with flaps £9.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5401 1

288 pages, 190 x 130 mm

Which Way?

British Library Women

Writers 1930s

Theodora Benson

Paperback with flaps £9.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5495 0

208 pages, 190 x 130 mm

Women Writers

Paperback with flaps £9.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5359 5

400 pages, 190 x 130 mm

Paperback with flaps £9.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5398 4

224 pages, 190 x 130 mm

The Love Child

British Library Women

Writers 1920s

Edith Olivier

Sally on the Rocks

British Library Women

Writers 1910s

Winifred Boggs

O, The Brave Music

British Library Women

Writers 1940s

Dorothy Evelyn Smith

Paperback with flaps £9.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5364 9

208 pages, 190 x 130 mm

Tension

British Library Women

Writers 1920s

E M Delafield

Paperback with flaps £9.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5304 5

288 pages, 190 x 130 mm

Mamma

British Library Women

Writers 1950s

Diana Tutton

Paperback with flaps £9.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5338 0

320 pages, 190 x 130 mm

Tea is So Intoxicating

British Library Women

Writers 1950s

Mary Essex

Paperback with flaps £9.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5393 9

224 pages, 190 x 130 mm

Paperback with flaps £9.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5388 5

224 pages, 190 x 130 mm

Paperback with flaps £9.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5362 5

224 pages, 190 x 130 mm

Father

British Library Women

Writers 1930s

Elizabeth von Arnim

Dangerous Ages

British Library Women

Writers 1920s

Rose Macaulay

The Tree of Heaven

British Library Women

Writers 1910s

May Sinclair

Paperback with flaps £9.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5318 2

304 pages, 190 x 130 mm

Chatterton Square

British Library Women

Writers 1940s

E H Young

Paperback with flaps £9.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5387 8

224 pages, 190 x 130 mm

My Husband Simon

British Library Women

Writers 1930s

Mollie Panter-Downes

Paperback with flaps £9.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5307 6

320 pages, 190 x 130 mm

Paperback with flaps £9.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5322 9

368 pages, 190 x 130 mm

Paperback with flaps £9.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5312 0

224 pages, 190 x 130 mm

British Library Crime Classics

Someone from the Past

Margot Bennett

Big Ben Strikes Eleven

A London Mystery

David Magarshack

Who Killed Father Christmas?

And Other Seasonal Mysteries

Edited by Martin Edwards

Paperback £9.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5473 8

256 pages, 190 x 130 mm

The Theft of the Iron Dogs

A Lancashire Mystery

E C R Lorac

Paperback £9.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5483 7

336 pages, 190 x 130 mm

He Who Whispers

John Dickson Carr

Paperback £10.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5478 3

272 pages, 190 x 130 mm

The Wheel Spins

Adapted for film by Alfred Hitchcock as The Lady

Vanishes

Ethel Lina White

Paperback £9.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5463 9

288 pages, 190 x 130 mm

Paperback £9.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5468 4

272 pages, 190 x 130 mm

Paperback £9.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5488 2

256 pages, 190 x 130 mm

Suddenly at His Residence

A Mystery in Kent

Christianna Brand

Crimes of Cymru

Classic Mystery Tales of Wales

Edited by Martin Edwards

Twice Round the Clock

Billie Houston

Paperback £9.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5423 3

240 pages, 190 x 130 mm

The Black Spectacles

John

Dickson Carr

Paperback £10.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5408 0

288 pages, 190 x 130 mm

Death of Mr Dodsley

A London Bibliomystery

John Ferguson

Paperback £9.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5403 5

256 pages, 190 x 130 mm

Death of an Author

E C R Lorac

Paperback £9.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5482 0

272 pages, 190 x 130 mm

Paperback £9.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5472 1

304 pages, 190 x 130 mm

Paperback £9.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5467 7

240 pages, 190 x 130 mm

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on the Golden Age of Crime

How to Survive a Classic Crime Novel Paperback with flaps £12.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5438 7

The Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books

Paperback £14.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5221 5

Flexibound £7.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5296 3

The Pocket Detective 2 100+ More Puzzles, Brainteasrers and Conundrums

Flexibound £8.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5315 1

The Pocket Detective 100+ Puzzles

Circles of Stone

Weird Tales of Pagan Sites and Ancient Rites

Edited by Katy Soar

Roads of Destiny

And Other Tales of Alternative Histories and Parallel Realms

Edited by Alasdair Richmond

The House on the Borderland

William Hope Hodgson with an introduction by Ann

VanderMeer

Paperback £9.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5459 2

288 pages, 190 x 130 mm

Dead Drunk

Tales of Intoxication and Demon Drinks

Edited by Pam Lock

Paperback £9.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5439 4

320 pages, 190 x 130 mm

The Lure of Atlantis

Strange Tales of the Sunken Continent

Edited by Michael Wheatley

Paperback £9.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5464 6

208 pages, 190 x 130 mm

The Uncanny

Gastronomic Strange Tales of the Edible Weird

Edited by Zara-Louise Stubbs

Paperback £9.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5409 7

272 pages, 190 x 130 mm

Paperback £9.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5498 1

288 pages, 190 x 130 mm

Paperback £9.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5428 8

288 pages, 190 x 130 mm

Holy Ghosts

Classic Tales of the Ecclesiastical Uncanny

Edited by Fiona Snailham

The Ways of Ghosts

And Other Dark Tales by Ambrose

Bierce

Edited by Mike Ashley

The Flaw in the Crystal

And Other Uncanny Stories

by May Sinclair

Edited by Mike Ashley

Paperback £9.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5413 4

288 pages, 190 x 130 mm

Polar Horrors

Strange Tales from the World’s Ends

Edited by John Miller

Paperback £9.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5497 4

320 pages, 190 x 130 mm

Haunters at the Hearth

Eerie Tales for Christmas Nights

Edited by Tanya Kirk

Paperback £9.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5477 6

352 pages, 190 x 130 mm

Spectral Sounds

Unquiet Tales of Acoustic Weird

Edited by Manon Burz-Labrande

Paperback £9.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5442 4

352 pages, 190 x 130 mm

Paperback £9.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5427 1

320 pages, 190 x 130 mm

Paperback £9.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5417 2

320 pages, 190 x 130 mm

978 0 7123 5496 7 The Horned God: Weird Tales of the Great God Pan

978 0 7123 5421 9 Our Haunted Shores: Tales from the Coasts of the British Isles

978 0 7123 5411 0 The Night Wire: And Other Tales of Weird Media

978 0 7123 5416 5 The Ghost Slayers: Thrilling Tales of Occult Detection

978 0 7123 5406 6 Shadows on the Wall: Dark Tales by Mary E Wilkins Freeman

978 0 7123 5410 3 Sunless Solstice: Strange Christmas Tales for the Longest Nights

978 0 7123 5405 9 Randalls Round: Nine Nightmares by Eleanor Scott

978 0 7123 5400 4 I Am Stone: The Gothic Weird Tales of R Murray Gilchrist

978 0 7123 5399 1 Cornish Horrors: Tales from the Land’s End

978 0 7123 5349 6 Crawling Horror: Creeping Tales of the Insect Weird

978 0 7123 5319 9 Minor Hauntings: Chilling Tales of Spectral Youth

978 0 7123 5376 2 Into the London Fog: Eerie Tales from the Weird City

978 0 7123 5358 8 Heavy Weather: Tempestuous Tales of Stranger Climes

978 0 7123 5368 7 Dangerous Dimensions: Mind-bending Tales of the Mathematical Weird

978 0 7123 5323 6 Chill Tidings: Dark Tales of the Christmas Season

978 0 7123 5342 7 Weird Woods: Tales from the Haunted Forests of Britain

978 0 7123 5391 5 Queens of the Abyss: Lost Stories from the Women of the Weird

978 0 7123 5381 6 A Phantom Lover: And Other Dark Tales by Vernon Lee

978 0 7123 5386 1 The Outcast: And Other Dark Tales by E F Benson

978 0 7123 5330 4 Tales of the Tattooed: An Anthology of Ink

Edited by Michael Wheatley

Edited by Emily Alder, Jimmy Packham, & Joan Passey

Edited by Aaron Worth

Edited by Mike Ashley

Edited by Mike Ashley

Edited by Lucy Evans & Tanya Kirk

Edited by Aaron Worth

Edited by Daniel Pietersen

Edited by Joan Passey

Edited by Daisy Butcher & Janette Leaf

Edited by Jen Baker

Edited by Elizabeth Dearnley

Edited by Kevin Manwaring

Edited by Henry Bartholomew

Edited by Tanya Kirk

Edited by John Miller

Edited by Mike Ashley

Edited by Mike Ashley

Edited by Mike Ashley

Edited by John Miller

978 0 7123 5305

978 0 7123 5284

978 0 7123 5229

978 0 7123 5263

978 0 7123 5233

978 0 7123 5208

Roarings from Further Out: Four Weird Novellas by Algernon Blackwood

Edited by Xavier Aldana Reyes

Edited by Xavier Aldana Reyes

Edited by Daisy Butcher

Edited by Mike Ashley

Edited by Xavier Aldana Reyes

Edited by Greg Buzwell

Edited by Mike Ashley 978 0 7123

978 0 7123 5203

Edited by Greg Buzwell 978 0 7123 5251

Edited

Edited

Edited by Mike Ashley

Penny Bloods Gothic Tales of Dangerous Women

Edited by Nicole C Dittmer

Celtic Weird Tales of Wicked Folklore and

Dark Mythology

Edited by Johnny

Mains

Hardback £14.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5418 9

256 pages, 210 x 149 mm

The Little Blue Flames

And Other Uncanny Tales

by A M Burrage

Edited by Nick Freeman

Hardback £15.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5432 5

336 pages, 210 x 149 mm

Visions of the Vampire

Two Centuries of Immortal Tales

Edited by Sorcha Ní Fhlainn and Xavier Aldana Reyes

Hardback £14.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5412 7

256 pages, 210 x 149 mm

Hardback £14.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5392 2

320 pages, 210 x 149 mm

Playing with Fire

The Weird Tales of Arthur Conan Doyle

Edited by Mike Ashley

Fearsome Fairies

Haunting Tales of the Fae

Edited by Elizabeth Dearnley

Hardback £14.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5425 7

304 pages, 210 x 149 mm

The Whisperers And Other Stories

A Lifetime of the Supernatural Algernon Blackwood,

edited by Mike Ashley

Hardback £15.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5430 1

336 pages, 210 x 149 mm

The Open Door

And Other Stories of the Seen and Unseen

Margaret Oliphant

edited by Mike Ashley

Hardback £14.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5426 4

320 pages, 210 x 149 mm

Hardback

Hardback £14.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5354 0

256 pages, 210 x 149 mm

The Gothic Tales of Sheridan Le Fanu

Edited by Xavier Aldana Reyes

The Ghost Stories of M R James

Edited by Roger Luckhurst

Hardback £14.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5396 0

256 pages, 210 x 149 mm

The Gothic Tales of H P Lovecraft

Edited by Xavier Aldana Reyes

Hardback £14.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5246 8

224 pages, 210 x 149 mm

Hardback £14.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5250 5

208 pages, 210 x 149 mm

The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Tales

Edgar Allan Poe

Hardback £14.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5754 8

208 pages, 210 x 149 mm

British Library Science Fiction Classics

Future Crimes

Mysteries and Detection Through Time and Space

Edited by Mike Ashley

Spaceworlds

Stories of Life in the Void

Edited by Mike Ashley

The Society of Time

The Original Trilogy and Other Stories

John Brunner

Paperback £9.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5334 2

320 pages, 190 x 130 mm

Nature’s Warnings

Classic Stories of Eco-Science Fiction

Edited by Mike Ashley

Paperback £9.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5309 0

320 pages, 190 x 130 mm

Born of the Sun

Adventures in Our Solar System

Edited by Mike Ashley

Paperback £8.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5382 3

288 pages, 190 x 130 mm

The Man with Six Senses

Muriel Jaeger

Paperback £9.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5357 1

320 pages, 190 x 130 mm

Paperback £8.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5356 4

336 pages, 190 x 130 mm

Paperback £8.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5366 3

240 pages, 190 x 130 mm

Beyond Time

Classic Stories of Time Unwound

Edited by Mike Ashley

Menace of the Monster

Classic Tales of Creatures from Beyond

Edited by Mike Ashley

Wild Harbour

Ian

Macpherson

Paperback £8.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5320 5

352 pages, 190 x 130 mm

The Question Mark

Muriel Jaeger

Paperback £8.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5269 7

368 pages, 190 x 130 mm

The End of the World

and Other Catastrophes

Edited by Mike Ashley

Paperback £8.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5224 6

224 pages, 190 x 130 mm

Menace of the Machine

The Rise of AI in Classic Science Fiction

Edited by Mike Ashley

Paperback £8.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5298 7

208 pages, 190 x 130 mm

Paperback £8.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5273 4

336 pages, 190 x 130 mm

Paperback £8.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5242 0

352 pages, 190 x 130 mm

The Darkest of Nights

Charles Eric Maine

The Tide Went Out

Charles Eric Maine

Shoot at the Moon

William F Temple

Paperback £8.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5218 5

320 pages, 190 x 130 mm

Four-Sided Triangle

William F Temple

Paperback £8.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5237 6

240 pages, 190 x 130 mm

Lost Mars

The Golden Age of the Red Planet

Edited by Mike Ashley

Paperback £8.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5256 7

240 pages, 190 x 130 mm

Moonrise

The Golden Age of Lunar Adventures

Edited by Mike Ashley

Paperback £8.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5231 4

304 pages, 190 x 130 mm

Paperback £8.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5240 6

304 pages, 190 x 130 mm

Paperback £8.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5275 8

352 pages, 190 x 130 mm

Art, Design and Craft

Buddhism Illuminated Manuscript Art from Southeast Asia

Hardback with jacket £50

ISBN 978 0 7123 5206 2

Graven Images

The Art of the Woodcut Hardback £12.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5672 5

Leonardo da Vinci

A Mind in Motion

Hardback £25

ISBN 978 0 7123 5283 3

Medieval Illumination Manuscript Art in England and France 700 –1200

Paperback £14.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5327 4

The Art & History of Calligraphy

Paperback with flaps £20

ISBN 978 0 7123 5367 0

Swallowed by a Whale How to Survive the Writing Life

Hardback £14.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5303 8

The Heritage Herbal Recipes & Remedies for Modern Living

Hardback £16.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5380 9

Animals

Art, Science and Sound

Hardback £35.00

ISBN 978 0 7123 5433 2

Gold Spectacular Manuscripts from Around the World

Hardback £10

ISBN 978 0 7123 5446 2

Penned & Painted

The Art and Meaning of Books in Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts

Hardback £25

ISBN 978 0 7123 5436 3

Gift, Reference and Humour

The Lindisfarne Gospels

Art, History and Inspiration

Hardback £12.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5481 3

Astrology in Medieval Manuscripts

Hardback with jacket £12.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5210 9

Warfare in Medieval Manuscripts

Hardback with jacket £12.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5605 3

Dogs in Medieval Manuscripts

Hardback with jacket £12.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5302 1

Cats in Medieval Manuscripts

Hardback with jacket £12.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5293 2

Medieval Monsters

Hardback with jacket £10

ISBN 978 0 7123 5790 6

Alice’s Adventures Under Ground

The Original Manuscript Hardback with jacket £14.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5243 7

Edward Lear and the Pussycat Famous Writers and their Pets

Flexibound £9.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5244 4

How to Give Your Child a Lifelong Love of Reading

Flexibound £12.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5385 4

The Book Lover’s Joke Book

Hardback £9.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5451 6

The Philosophy of Beards Hardback £10

ISBN 978 0 7123 5766 1

The Philosophy of Coffee Hardback £10

ISBN 978 0 7123 5230 7

The Philosophy of Wine Hardback £10

ISBN 978 0 7123 5278 9

The Philosophy of Tea

Hardback £10

ISBN 978 0 7123 5259 8

The Philosophy of Gin Hardback £10

ISBN 978 0 7123 5360 1

The Philosophy of Cheese Hardback £10

ISBN 978 0 7123 5377 9

The Philosophy of Tattoos

Hardback £10

ISBN 978 0 7123 5308 3

The Philosophy of Beer

Hardback £10

ISBN 978 0 7123 5347 2

The Philosophy of Whisky

Hardback £10

ISBN 978 0 7123 5455 4

The Philosophy of Curry

Hardback £10

ISBN 978 0 7123 5450 9

The Philosophy of Cocktails

Hardback £10

ISBN 978 0 7123 5453 0

The Cocktail Book

Hardback £8.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5690 9

The Gentleman’s Art of Dressing with Economy

Hardback £7.95

ISBN 978 0 7123 5886 6

Christmas Traditions

A Celebration of Festive Lore

Hardback with jacket £12.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5294 9

Bespoke

A Guide to Cycle-Speak and Saddle Slang

Hardback £12.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5365 6

Playing Jane Austen

Parlour Plays for DrawingRoom Performance

Hardback £9.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5223 9

The Women’s Suffrage Cookery Book

Hardback £9.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5375 5

The Book Lover’s Bucket List

A Tour of Great British Literature

Hardback £16.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5324 3

Can You Read This Book?

A Book of Nonsense to Twist Your Tongue To Hardback £9.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5465 3

A Book of Book Lists

Flexibound £7.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5225 3

Shelf Life Writers on Books and Reading

Flexibound £10

ISBN 978 0 7123 5286 4

A Literary Christmas An Anthology

Hardback with jacket £12.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5276 5

A Children’s Literary Christmas An Anthology

Hardback with jacket £12.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5279 6

The British History Puzzle Book

Flexibound £14.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5440 0

The Magnificent Maps Puzzle Book

Flexibound £14.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5299 4

The Royal Puzzle Book

Flexibound £14.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5443 1

A Children’s Literary Treasury

Hardback with jacket £20

ISBN 978 0 7123 5397 7

Breaking the News

500 Years of News in Britain

Hardback £25

ISBN 978 0 7123 5441 7

Bloomsbury

Beyond the Establishment

Paperback £10

ISBN 978 0 7123 5656 5

Camden Town

Dreams of Another London

Paperback £10

ISBN 978 0 7123 5694 7

Soho

The Heart of Bohemian London

Paperback £10

ISBN 978 0 7123 5657 2

The Menu

Memorable Meals from Escoffier at the Ritz to the First Meal on the Moon

Hardback £20

ISBN 978 0 7123 5300 7

A General History of the Lives, Murders and Adventures of the Most Notorious Highwaymen

Hardback with jacket £20

ISBN 978 0 7123 5274 1

A General History of the Lives, Murders and Adventures of the Most Notorious Pirates

Hardback with jacket £20

ISBN 978 0 7123 5390 8

A General History of the Lives, Murders and Adventures of the Most Notorious Rogues

Hardback with jacket £20

ISBN 978 0 7123 5339 7

Taking to the Air

An Illustrated History of Flight

Hardback £25

ISBN 978 0 7123 5261 1

Protecting the People

Hardback with jacket £30

ISBN 978 0 7123 5325 0

Russian Revolution: Hope, Tragedy, Myths

Hardback with jacket £40

ISBN 978 0 7123 5677 0

The Book of the British Library

Hardback with jacket £25

ISBN 978 0 7123 5837 8

Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms

Art, Word, War

Paperback with flaps £25

ISBN 978 0 7123 5207 9

Elizabeth & Mary

Royal Cousins, Rival Queens

Hardback with jacket £40

ISBN 978 0 7123 5348 9

Paperback £30

ISBN 978 0 7123 5353 3

The Illustrated Police News

The Shocks, Scandals & Sensations of the Week

1864–1938

Hardback £12.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5249 9

Sailor Song

The Shanties and Ballads of the High Seas

Hardback £14.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5370 0

Unfinished Business

The Fight for Women’s Rights

Hardback £25

ISBN 978 0 7123 5395 3

Pacific An Ocean of Wonders

Hardback £30

ISBN 978 0 7123 5219 2

The Story of Propaganda in 50 Images

Hardback £16.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5431 8

Alexander the Great The Making of a Myth

Hardback with jacket £40

ISBN 978 0 7123 5476 9

Paperback £30

ISBN 978 0 7123 5447 9

Dancing in Time

The History of Moving and Shaking

Hardback £25

ISBN 978 0 7123 5461 5

Books on the Golden Age of Crime

How to Survive a Classic Crime Novel Paperback with flaps £12.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5438 7

Literature

The Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books

Paperback £14.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5221 5

The Pocket Detective 100+ Puzzles

Flexibound £7.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5296 3

The Pocket Detective 2 100+ More Puzzles, Brainteasrers and Conundrums

Flexibound £8.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5315 1

Poems in Progress

Drafts from Master Poets

Hardback £30

ISBN 978 0 7123 5466 0

The Heart of the Forest Why Woods Matter

Hardback with jacket £25

ISBN 978 0 7123 5456 1

Dragons, Heroes, Myths & Magic

The Medieval Art of Storytelling

Hardback with jacket £30

ISBN 978 0 7123 5460 8

Love Letters

Intimate Correspondence Between Famous Lovers

Hardback £12.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5351 9

Science Fiction

A Literary History

Hardback £20

ISBN 978 0 7123 5692 3

Maps

Yesterday’s Tomorrows

The Story of Classic British Science Fiction in 100 Books

Paperback with flaps £20

ISBN 978 0 7123 5371 7

Reading Room

A Year of Literary Curiosities

Hardback £17.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5254 3

Horror

A Literary History

Paperback with flaps £16.99

ISBN 978 0 7123 5333 5

Maps and the 20th Century Drawing the Line

Hardback with jacket £40

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