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Writing surrounds us in the modern world – but how did it develop into the systems we use today, and given the technological developments of the twenty-first century, what does its future hold?

This beautifully illustrated book, published to coincide with an interactive landmark British Library exhibition, celebrates the act of writing from across the globe. Exploring the history of writing and including more than 150 illustrations from carved stone Hardback with jacket £40 inscriptions and medieval manuscripts ISBN 978 0 7123 5253 6 Paperback £25 to samples of early printing, modern ISBN 978 0 7123 5248 2 handwriting and digital inputting 272 Pages, 280 x 220 mm systems, it reflects on the use of writing Over 100 colour illustrations over the last 5,000 years and challenges Publishing April 2019 our preconceptions about writing’s Ewan Clayton is Professor in Design decline in the digital age. at the University of Sunderland. For twelve years he worked as a consultant to Xerox PARC, the research lab in California that developed much of the digital technology underpinning the world of digital communications that we know today. He is also a calligrapher and lettering artist. He grew up in and around a craft community at Ditchling in Sussex founded by Eric Gill. Ewan’s book The Golden Thread, a history of writing, was published in 2013 and has been translated into a number of languages.

02 New Titles New Titles 03 Leonardo da Vinci A Mind in Motion Edited by Juliana Barone

Written by leading Leonardo experts from London and Florence, and accompanying a major British Library exhibition, this fascinating new book reveals the central importance of motion in Leonardo’s art and thought.

Large-scale reproductions of Leonardo’s handwritten notes include clear illustrations of dozens of pages from Codex Arundel, alongside other manuscripts and paintings. Leonardo’s ingenious, cutting-edge ideas about the art and physics of motion – the dynamics of motion in water; movement of the human form; and motion as a force in artistic composition – are explained in a clear and accessible form as never before.

Hardback £20 ISBN 978 0 7123 5283 3 160 pages, 255 x 195 mm 70 colour illustrations Publishing June 2019

Juliana Barone is Associate Research Fellow in the Department of History of Art at Birkbeck College, London. Her doctoral thesis at Oxford University was on Leonardo da Vinci and motion.

04 New Titles New Titles 05 The Globetrotter Excursions in the East Amy Miller

In the mid-nineteenth century, as routes opened up, a new generation of travellers embarked on excursions to China, India and Japan. Globetrotters – leisure tourists with a keen interest in experiencing authentic culture – flocked to the East, casting aside preconceptions and gravitating towards what they hoped to be the unchanged landscapes and traditions of Eastern cultures.

The relics of their travels – the food they consumed and the souvenirs they brought back – allowed globetrotters to distinguish themselves from common tourists. They proudly returned with accounts that presented a global East, challenging public assumptions about the cultures they had visited and Hardback £30 charting a journey of self-transformation ISBN 978 0 7123 5258 1 through travel. 256 pages, 240 x 165 mm Over 100 colour illustrations Publishing May 2019

Amy Miller is currently completing a PhD on the history and material culture of the global tourist in the nineteenth century at University College London. She has an MA from the Bard Graduate Center, New York, in Decorative Arts and Material Culture Studies. Formerly Curator of Decorative Arts and Material Culture at the National Maritime Museum, she is the author of Dressed to Kill: Naval Uniform, Masculinity and Fashion 1748–1857.

06 New Titles New Titles 07 Alice’s Adventures Under Ground Playing Jane The Original Manuscript Jane Austen Adapted for Drawing-room Performance Lewis Carroll Rosina Filippi

One ‘golden afternoon’ in Oxford, The grasping social climber, the tiresome in July 1862, the Reverend Charles neighbour, the spirited heroine, the most Lutwidge Dodgson accompanied unsuitable of suitors, and, of course, the three young sisters, Lorina, Alice, and perfect love match, are all some of Jane Edith, on a boating trip. To keep the Austen’s timeless literary inventions. children amused, Dodgson began to tell Mistress of a sharp wit, Austen’s a tale about an inquisitive youngster observations on society and the roles called Alice, and her escapades in an and rights of women are familiar today underground world. Two years later, on not only through her novels but from the urgings of the heroine, Alice Liddell, countless screen and stage adaptations. he wrote the tale down and gave it to her However, the original dramatisation as an early Christmas gift. of Austen was first published in 1895, by Victorian feminist and actor Rosina Dodgson’s story, later revised and Filippi, who skilfully adapted iconic illustrated by John Tenniel, would go scenes from Austen’s novels into one- on to become one of the most famous act plays for performance. Playing Jane NEW and best-loved children’s books of all evokes the romance of Victorian drawing- EDITION time – published as Alice’s Adventures in room entertainment at its best, and with Wonderland, under the pen name Lewis accompanying stage directions and advice Hardback £14.99 Carroll. However, the original tale – Hardback £9.99 on the correct silks and muslins to wear, ISBN 978 0 7123 5243 7 Alice’s Adventures Under Ground ISBN 978 0 7123 5223 9 you too can learn how to play Jane. 128 pages, 187 x 124 mm – remains less well-known. In this 160 pages, 178 x 111 mm 42 illustrations facsimile edition of Dodgson’s Includes illustrations The Plays Publishing April 2019 Publishing February 2019 manuscript – now one of the British Literary tastes – Northanger Abbey Lewis Carroll (1832–98) is the Library’s most treasured possessions Rosina Filippi (1866–1930) was a The Settlement Question – Sense and Sensibility pseudonym of mathematician Charles – with its accompanying commentary progressive actor and director who The Reading of Jane Fairfax’s Letter – Emma Lutwidge Dodgson, which he adopted by former British Library curator Sally was associated with many of the A Strawberry Picnic – Emma when publishing his famous children’s Brown, modern readers can enjoy the theatrical greats of her generation. Three Loves – Emma novels and nonsense verse. Best expressive story as it was first told. Filippi was also an advocate for known for his fantastical tale Alice’s women’s rights and was the first The Proposal of Mr Collins – Pride and Prejudice Adventures in Wonderland (1865), person to dramatise Jane Austen Lady Catherine’s Visit – Pride and Prejudice Carroll later published Through the for performance. Margaret Fletcher Looking Glass and What Alice Found (1862–1943) was an English illustrator There (1871). Carroll was an avid and amateur actor. She was a social letter-writer and wrote numerous critic and feminist and went on to stories and poems, including The found the Catholic Women’s League. Hunting of the Snark in 1876.

08 New Titles New Titles 09 BRITISH LIBRARY CRIME CLASSICS Smallbone Deceased Death in Captivity A London Mystery A Second World War Mystery Michael Gilbert Michael Gilbert

A first-rate job Any book by Michael Gilbert is a treat New York Times Daily Telegraph A classic of the genre Guardian A man is found dead in an escape tunnel One of his finest novels in an Italian prisoner-of-war camp. Did Daily Telegraph he die in an accidental collapse – or was this murder? Captain Henry ‘Cuckoo’ Horniman, Birley and Craine is a highly Goyles, master tunneller and amateur respected legal firm with clients reaching detective, takes up the case. to the highest in the land. When a deed box in the office is opened to reveal a This classic locked-room mystery with corpse, the threat of scandal promises a closed circle of suspects is woven to wreak havoc on the firm’s reputation together with a thrilling story of escape – especially as the murder looks like from the camp, as the Second World an inside job. The partners and staff of War nears its endgame and the British the firm keep a watchful and suspicious prisoners prepare to flee into the Italian eye on their colleagues, as Inspector countryside. Hazlerigg sets out to solve the mystery of who Mr Smallbone was – and why he Paperback £8.99 had to die. Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5297 0 ISBN 978 0 7123 5213 0 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm 304 pages, 190 x 130 mm Publishing January 2019 Written with style, pace and wit, this is Publishing February 2019 a masterpiece by one of the finest writers Michael Gilbert (1912–2006), a of traditional British crime novels since founding member of the Crime the Second World War. Writers’ Association, wrote thrillers, police procedurals and espionage novels that rank among the highest and most varied achievements of British crime writing in the second half of the twentieth century.

10 New Titles New Titles 11 Death Has Deep Roots Surfeit of Suspects A Second World War Mystery George Bellairs Michael Gilbert

The whole thing looks to me like a At 8 o’clock in the evening on the 8th jigsaw puzzle which has been half done November, there was a terrific explosion by an inexpert child. Any bit that seems in Green Lane, Evingden. to fit has been left in. Any bit that doesn’t fit has been disregarded. The offices of Excelsior Joinery Company are no more; the 3 directors At the Central Criminal Court, an are killed and the peace of a quiet eager crowd awaits the trial of Victoria town in Surrey lies in ruins. When the Lamartine, an active participant in the supposed cause of ignited gas leak is Resistance during the war. She is now dismissed and the presence of dynamite employed at the Family Hotel in Soho, revealed, Superintendent Littlejohn of where Major Eric Thoseby has been Scotland Yard is summoned to the scene. found murdered. The cause of death? A stabbing reminiscent of techniques But beneath the sleepy veneer of developed by the Maquisards. Evingden lies a hotbed of deep-seated grievances. Confounding Littlejohn’s While the crime is committed in investigation is an impressive cast of England, its roots are buried in a suspicious persons, each concealing vividly depicted wartime France. their own axe to grind. Paperback £8.99 Thoseby is believed to have fathered Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5228 4 Lamartine’s child, and the prosecution ISBN 978 0 7123 5238 3 Bellairs’ novel of small-town grudges 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm insist that his death is revenge for his 256 pages, 190 x 130 mm with calamitous consequences revels Publishing March 2019 Publishing April 2019 abandonment of Lamartine and her in the abundant possible solutions arrest by the Gestapo. George Bellairs was the pseudonym to the central crime as a masterpiece of Harold Blundell (1902–1985), a of misdirection. A last-minute change in Lamartine’s prominent banker and philanthropist defence counsel grants solictor Nap from Manchester who became the Rumbold just eight days to prove author of a popular series of detective her innocence, with the highest of stakes stories featuring Thomas Littlejohn, should he fail. The proceedings which were published for nearly forty of the courtroom are interspersed years. The Dead Shall be Raised & with Rumbold’s perilous quest for Murder of a Quack and Death of a Busybody are available as British evidence, which is aided by his old Library Crime Classics. wartime comrades.

12 New Titles New Titles 13 Murder in the Mill Race Deep Waters A Devon Mystery Murder on the Waves E C R Lorac Edited by Martin Edwards

“Never make trouble in the village” is an From picturesque canals to the swirling unspoken law, but it’s a binding law. You currents of the ocean, a world of secrets may know about your neighbours’ sins lies buried beneath the surface of the and shortcomings, but you must never water. Dubious vessels crawl along name them aloud. It’d make trouble, and riverbeds, while the murky depths conceal small societies want to avoid trouble. more than one gruesome murder.

When Dr Raymond Ferens moves to The stories in this collection will dredge a practice at Milham in the Moor up delight in crime fiction fans, as in North Devon, he and his wife are watery graves claim unintended dwellers enchanted with the beautiful hilltop and disembodied whispers penetrate village lying so close to moor and sky. the sleeping quarters of a ship’s captain. At first they see only its charm, but soon How might a thief plot their escape from they begin to uncover its secrets – a floating crime scene? And what is to envy, hatred and malice. follow when murder victims, lost to the ocean floor, inevitably resurface? Everyone says that Sister Monica, warden of a children’s home, is a This British Library anthology uncovers saint – but is she? A few months the best mysteries set below the surface, Paperback £8.99 after the Ferens’ arrival her body is Paperback £8.99 including stories by Arthur Conan ISBN 978 0 7123 5268 0 found drowned in the mill-race. Chief ISBN 978 0 7123 5288 8 Doyle, William Hope Hodgson and 256 pages, 190 x 130 mm Inspector Macdonald faces one of 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm R Austin Freeman. Publishing May 2019 Publishing June 2019 his most difficult cases in a village E C R Lorac was a pen name of Edith determined not to betray its dark Martin Edwards is series consultant Caroline Rivett (1894–1958) who secrets to a stranger. for British Library Crime Classics. He is was a prolific writer of crime fiction an award-winning crime writer, Chair from the 1930s to the 1950s, and a of the Crime Writers’ Association and member of the prestigious Detection President of the Detection Club. The Club. Her books include Bats in the Golden Age of Murder, his study of Belfry, Fire in the Thatch and Murder the Detection Club, was published By Matchlight, all available as British in 2015 to international acclaim, and Library Crime Classics. won the Edgar, Agatha, H.R.F. Keating and Macavity awards for the year’s best book about the genre. The Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books was published by the British Library in 2017.

14 New Titles New Titles 15 BRITISH LIBRARY SCIENCE FICTION CLASSICS The Tide Went Out The Darkest of Nights Charles Eric Maine Charles Eric Maine

If only they knew what was really in A vicious plague has broken out in his mind . . . But they wouldn’t believe. China and spread to Japan. The world They wouldn’t understand the cold governments look on callously, until the single-mindedness of a desperate man. shadow of the Hueste virus begins to sweep across the rest of the globe. When London journalist Philip Wade learns that his article on nuclear The pandemic draws nearer to Britain; weapons testing has been censored by shelters are hastily constructed across the British government, he is prompted the country, but for whom? As the to investigate the truth that lies behind death toll booms and the populace finds it. Philip’s search leads to a mysterious themselves sacrificed for the sake of the job offer in a newly-formed government elite, the cry for revolution rings out department, and he soon realises the amidst the sirens. lasting damage that the nuclear tests have caused. The country is rife with Maine’s savage portrayal of society on uncertainty and distrust – then the the brink of ruin is a cruel forerunner water levels start to drop. of a more pessimistic science fiction of the 1960s. This subversive novel shows This gripping apocalyptic novel, that even the heroes may succumb to Paperback £8.99 originally published in 1958, asks Paperback £8.99 brutality as the world descends into a ISBN 978 0 7123 5237 6 pertinent questions about censorship and ISBN 978 0 7123 5218 5 desperate scramble for the last shred of 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm the potential for violence in the face of 256 pages, 190 x 130 mm what it means to be human: survival. Publishing January 2019 Publishing February 2019 disappearing resources. The Tide Went Charles Eric Maine was the Out outlines the horrors that arise when pseudonym of David McIlwain we are forced to ask the question: ‘what (1921–1981), a prolific writer of happens when the water runs out?’ science fiction novels in the 1950s and 1960s. His stories often feature a fast-paced thriller plot that experiments with the boundaries of new scientific technology.

16 New Titles New Titles 17 Menace of the Machine The End of the World Edited by Mike Ashley and Other Catastrophes Edited by Mike Ashley

Technological advance is never Sound the sirens! The end is here, and straightforward. A man is murdered it comes in many forms in this new by an automaton built for chess. A collection of apocalyptic short stories computer system designed to arbitrate from the classic age of science fiction. justice develops a taste for iron-fisted, fatal rulings. An AI governing what we Join humanity on the brink of now know as an internet wreaks havoc destruction in 13 doom-laden visions on society after removing all forms from the 1890s to the 1960s, featuring of censorship. rare tales from the Library’s vaults. Tales of plague seizing an over-polluted Assembled with parts from the late 19th capital, a world engulfed in absolute century to the 1960s, this new collection darkness by some cosmic disaster, and of classic stories warns of the possible of poignant dreams of a silent planet threats, both comic and severe, of a after the last echoes of humanity have world in which human and machine died away. live side by side. Extreme climate change, nuclear A delightfully, and worryingly, prescient annihilation, comet strike; calamities selection for today’s world in which self-inflicted and from beyond the steer Paperback £8.99 robotic coexistence is passing with each Paperback £8.99 of humankind vie to deal the last blow ISBN 978 0 7123 5242 0 day from speculation to reality. ISBN 978 0 7123 5273 4 in this countdown from the first whisper 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm of possible extinction to the Earth’s Publishing April 2019 Publishing May 2019 final sunrise. Mike Ashley is the author and editor of more than a hundred books, and is one of the foremost historians of popular fiction. His books includeAdventures in The Strand, Out of This World and The Age of Storytellers: British Popular Fiction Magazines 1880–1950. His multi-volume history of science fiction magazines is published by Liverpool University Press.

18 New Titles New Titles 19 BRITISH LIBRARY TALES OF THE WEIRD The Platform Edge Doorway to Dilemma Uncanny Tales of the Railways Bewildering Tales of Dark Fantasy Edited by Mike Ashley Edited by Mike Ashley

Howling down the tunnels comes a The events which I purpose detailing are new collection showcasing the greatest of so extraordinary a character that I am stories of strange happenings on the quite prepared to meet with an unusual tracks, many of which are republished amount of incredulity and scorn. here for the first time since their original departure. Between horror and fantasy lies a world in which the inexplicable remains Waiting beyond the barrier are ghostly unsolved and the rational mind is travelling companions bent on disturbing assailed by impossible questions. the commutes of the living, a subway Welcome to the realm of Dark Fantasy, car disappearing into a different where safe answers are beyond reach and dimension without a trace, and a man’s accounts of unanswerable dilemma find greatest fears realized on the ghost train their home. of a carnival. Delving deep into the sub-genre, fiction An express ticket to unforgettable expert Mike Ashley has gathered an journeys into the supernatural, from the unsettling mixture of twisted tales, open railways of Europe and America to encounters with logic-defying creatures the pressing dark of the tube. and nightmarish fables certain to Paperback £8.99 Paperback £8.99 perplex, beguile and of course, entertain. ISBN 978 0 7123 5203 1 ISBN 978 0 7123 5263 5 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm Publishing January 2019 Publishing May 2019

Mike Ashley is an internationally renowned expert on popular fiction of the 19th and 20th century with a superior collection of magazines and journals and an encyclopaedic knowledge of their contents. He has edited two previous anthologies in this series: Glimpses of the Unknown: Lost Ghost Stories and From the Depths and Other Strange Tales of the Sea.

20 New Titles New Titles 21 The Weird Tales of William The Face in the Glass Hope Hodgson The Gothic Tales of Mary Elizabeth Braddon Edited by Greg Buzwell Edited by Xavier Aldana Reyes

I have tumbled upon one of the most A young girl whose love for her fiancé peculiar cases of ‘haunting’—or continues even after her death; a sinister devilment of some sort—that I have old lady with claw-like hands who cares come against. Now listen. little for the qualities of her companions provided they are young and full of life; A splash of something huge resounds and a haunted mirror that foretells of through the sea-fog. In the stillness of approaching death for those who gaze a dark room, some unspeakable evil is into its depths. These are just some of making its approach. the haunting tales gathered together in this macabre collection of short stories. This new selection offers the most chilling and unsettling of Hodgson’s Reissued in the Tales of the Weird short fiction, from encounters with series and introduced by British Library abominations at sea to fireside tales of curator Greg Buzwell, The Face in otherworldly forces from his inventive the Glass is the first selection of Mary ‘occult detective’ character Carnacki, Elizabeth Braddon’s supernatural the ghost finder. short stories to be widely available in more than 100 years. By turns curious, A master of conjuring atmosphere, sinister, haunting and terrifying, each Paperback £8.99 when the horror inevitably arrives it is Paperback £8.99 tale explores the dark shadows beyond ISBN 978 0 7123 5233 8 delivered with breathtaking pace and ISBN 978 0 7123 5208 6 the rational world. 304 pages, 190 x 130 mm the author’s signature evocation of 272 pages, 190 x 130 mm Publishing April 2019 Publishing February 2019 overwhelming panic. William Hope Hodgson (1877–1918) Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1835–1915) is renowned as a master of nautical was a prominent and prolific Victorian mystery and horror stories, which novelist whose major works included possess a unique authenticity due to Lady Audley’s Secret. She was the Hodgson’s youth spent at sea and editor of the literary magazine The in the navy. He is also celebrated Mistletoe Bough, in which several of as the creator of the memorable her short stories were first published. occult detective character, Carnacki. Hodgson wrote many classic ghost and sea stories before his death near Ypres during the First World War.

22 New Titles New Titles 23 The Philosophy of Wine Cats in Medieval Manuscripts Ruth Ball Kathleen Walker-Meikle

A companion volume to The Philosophy Cats were illustrated in medieval of . . . Beards and Coffee, this witty manuscripts throughout the Middle history of wine – its cultivation and Ages, often in exquisite detail and enjoyment – sheds light on the rich frequently accompanied by their traditions of wine from around the natural prey, mice. Medieval cats were world. An apt gift for oenophiles viewed as treasured pets, as fearsome everywhere, it includes chapters on the mousers, as canny characters in fables, development of wine production, from as associates of the Devil and as the use of casks to bottles to the switch magical creatures. Featuring an array of from feet to presses, as well as tracing fascinating illustrations from the British the global shift of wine production from Library’s rich medieval collection, traditional wine-producing regions Cats in Medieval Manuscripts includes to emerging wine exporters. With a anecdotes about cats – both real and selective focus on unexpected facts and NEW imaginary – to provide a fascinating lesser-known characters connected with EDITION picture of the life of the cat and its wine, from the Greek gods of wine to relationship with humans in the the monks who created Champagne and Hardback with jacket £12.99 medieval world. the ingenious ways French winemakers ISBN 978 0 7123 5293 2 protected priceless vintages during 96 pages, 190 x 150 mm wartime, this gift edition explores the Colour illustrations throughout Publishing June 2019 Hardback £9.99 historical influences that have shaped ISBN 978 0 7123 5278 9 our drinking taste. Kathleen Walker-Meikle completed 112 pages, 200 x 130 mm 15 illustrations her PhD at University College London Publishing May 2019 on late medieval pet keeping. She is currently a research fellow at Ruth Ball is the award-nominated King’s College London and writes on author of Rebellious Spirits and, medieval and early modern animals most recently, Rough Spirits and and medicine. She is also the author High Society (British Library, 2017). of Medieval Pets (2012) and Medieval She is the founder of Alchemist Dogs (2013). Dreams, a company dedicated to handmade liqueurs that are blended to order.

24 New Titles New Titles 25 The Old Man’s Guide to Health Taking to the Air Holmes & The Whole An Illustrated History Watson Art of Dress and Longer Life of Flight A Miscellany A Cavalry Officer John Hill Lily Ford S C Roberts

A lifestyle guide to longevity and good health – from 1750.

Writing in an age when the majority of men didn’t live to see their fiftieth birthday, John Hill provides practical advice on diet, exercise and lifestyle, including sleep and emotional health.

Full of genuinely good advice, the book offers sage insights as well as ridiculous regimes – making it a perfect gift for a man of more mature years. The possibilities of flight First published in Part fashionable have long fascinated 1953, this classic book guide, part defence of us. Each innovation is one of the earliest and dandyism, this manual captivated a broad best studies of English for menswear was public, from those who literature’s most iconic originally published NEW gathered to witness characters. S.C. Roberts in 1830. It advises on EDITION winged medieval searches Conan Doyle’s the nuances of men’s visionaries jumping stories for clues and fashion, on how to Hardback £7.99 from towers, to those develops biographies perfect all elements of ISBN 978 0 7123 5292 5 who tuned in to watch of the characters. dress, from the elegant 80 pages, 163 x 100 Publishing June 2019 the moon landings. staple of cravatiana to Focusing on moments Hardback £10 the delightful whimsy of John Hill was a mid-eighteenth- of great cultural impact, ISBN 978 0 7123 5216 1 masquerade dress. century physician and actor, this book is a visual 160 pages, 190 x 130 mm Published September 2018 who published prolifically on celebration of the Hardback £10 the natural sciences. wonder of flight. ISBN 978 0 7123 5271 0 128 pages, 200 x 130 mm 6 B&W illustrations Hardback £25 Published September 2018 ISBN 978 0 7123 5261 1 224 pages, 240 x 165 mm 150 colour illustrations Published September 2018

26 New Titles Recent Highlights 27 The Gothic Tales Shelf Life A Literary Atlas A History of America of H P Lovecraft Writers on Books Christmas A World of Maps in 100 Maps from the British Library Edited by Xavier Aldana and Reading An Anthology Susan Schulten Reyes Alex Johnson Tom Harper

H P Lovecraft is best Books: reading, collecting For as long as Christmas This is an atlas with a difference. Acclaimed historian Susan known for his tales of and the housing of them has been celebrated, It can help us to travel in a way Schulten rexplores five centuries cosmic horror, in which has brought the book- poets and writers have that regular atlases do not, of American history through unnameable nightmares lover joy, and stress, for sought to explore every because by looking at old maps maps. From voyages of European torment the limits of centuries. Fascinated aspect of it. A Literary and getting to know their stories discovery to the digital age, she human consciousness. writers have tried to Christmas is a seasonal we can be transported back to the reveals the many ways that maps This collection of capture the particular anthology collecting times in which they were made. have shaped history. Lovecraft’s stories is the relationships we form poems, short stories and This is the definitive printed first to concentrate on with our library, and the prose extracts by some showcase of the British Library’s Hardback £30 his Gothic writing and desperate troubles we will of the greatest poets and extensive and unparalleled map ISBN 978 0 7123 5217 8 reveals how his weird undergo to preserve it. writers in the English collection. 256 pages, 280 x 220 mm 100 colour illustrations vision mixes brilliantly The many facets of book- language. Published November 2018 with the trappings of mania are celebrated with Hardback £30 earlier Gothic horror. sincerity and irreverence Hardback with jacket £12.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5291 8 in this lively selection of ISBN 978 0 7123 5276 5 256 pages, 280 x 220 mm 152 pages, 210 x 149 mm Over 100 colour illustrations Hardback £14.99 essays, poems, lectures Over 30 colour and B&W Published October 2018 ISBN 978 0 7123 5246 8 and commentaries. illustrations 240 pages, 210 x 148 mm Published September 2018 Published August 2018 Flexibound £10 ISBN 978 0 7123 5286 4 128 pages, 198 x 130 mm Published October 2018

28 Recent Highlights Recent Highlights 29 BRITISH LIBRARY CRIME CLASSICS

Medieval Illumination Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms The Story of The Pocket The Arsenal Manuscript Art in England Art, Word, War Classic Crime Detective Stadium Mystery and France 700–1200 Edited by Claire Breay in 100 Books 100+ Puzzles Leonard Gribble Kathleen Doyle and Charlotte and Joanna Story Martin Edwards Compiled by Kate Jackson Denoël

Paperback £14.99 Flexibound £7.99 Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5221 5 ISBN 978 0 7123 5296 3 ISBN 978 0 7123 5226 0 Hardback £25 144 pages, 155 x 100 mm 256 pages, 190 x 130 mm Illuminated manuscripts from This richly illustrated book presents ISBN 978 0 7123 5696 1 England and France are among the Anglo-Saxon England as the home 304 pages, 210 x 148 mm greatest masterpieces of medieval of a highly sophisticated artistic and European art. This beautiful book political culture, deeply connected The Division The Belting The Colour showcases dozens of fine examples, with its continental neighbours. It Bell Mystery Inheritance of Murder some of which have never before charts a fascinating and dynamic Ellen Wilkinson Julian Symons Julian Symons bene exhibited and are rarely period in early medieval history, reproduced. bringing to life our understanding of these formative centuries. Paperback £10 ISBN 978 0 7123 5212 3 Hardback £40 176 pages, 255 x 190 mm ISBN 978 0 7123 5202 4 Published October 2018 Paperback £25 ISBN 978 0 7123 5207 9 424 pages, 280 x 220 mm 160 colour illustrations Published October 2018

Paperback £8.99 Paperback £8.99 Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5241 3 ISBN 978 0 7123 5232 1 ISBN 978 0 7123 5227 7 256 pages, 190 x 130 mm 240 pages, 190 x 130 mm 256 pages, 190 x 130 mm

30 Recent Highlights Crime Classics 31 The Christmas Verdict of Twelve Family Matters Sergeant Cluff The Methods of Card Crime Raymond Postgate Anthony Rolls Stands Firm Sergeant Cluff and Other Stories Gil North Gil North Edited by Martin Edwards

Paperback £8.99 Paperback £8.99 Paperback £8.99 Paperback £7.99 Paperback £7.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5247 5 ISBN 978 0 7123 5674 9 ISBN 978 0 7123 5669 5 ISBN 978 0 7123 5646 6 ISBN 978 0 7123 5647 3 256 pages, 190 x 130 mm 256 pages, 190 x 130 mm 256 pages, 190 x 130 mm 176 pages, 190 x 130 mm 176 pages, 190 x 130 mm

Murder by Scarweather The Incredible Crime Continental Crimes Miraculous Mysteries Matchlight Anthony Rolls A Cambridge Mystery Edited by Martin Edwards Edited by Martin Edwards E C R Lorac Lois Austen-Leigh

Paperback £8.99 Paperback £8.99 Paperback £8.99 Paperback £8.99 Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5222 2 ISBN 978 0 7123 5664 0 ISBN 978 0 7123 5602 2 978 0 7123 5679 4 ISBN 978 0 7123 5673 2 256 pages, 190 x 130 mm 272 pages, 190 x 130 mm 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm 352 pages, 190 x 130 mm 352 pages, 190 x 130 mm

32 Crime Classics Crime Classics 33 Fire in the Thatch The Murder Blood on the Tracks Death Makes a Seven Dead The Long Arm A Devon Mystery of My Aunt Railway Mysteries Prophet J Jefferson Farjeon of the Law E C R Lorac Richard Hull Edited by Martin Edwards John Bude Classic Police Stories Edited by Martin Edwards

Paperback £8.99 Paperback £8.99 Paperback £8.99 Paperback £8.99 Paperback £8.99 Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5260 4 ISBN 978 0 7123 5280 2 ISBN 978 0 7123 5270 3 ISBN 978 0 7123 5691 6 ISBN 978 0 7123 5688 6 ISBN 978 0 7123 5687 9 240 pages, 190 x 130 mm 240 pages, 190 x 130 mm 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm

Excellent Weekend at Bats in the Belfry Somebody Calamity Foreign Bodies Intentions Thrackley A London Mystery at the Door in Kent Edited by Martin Edwards Richard Hull Alan Melville E C R Lorac Raymond Postgate John Rowland

Paperback £8.99 Paperback £8.99 Paperback £8.99 Paperback £8.99 Paperback £8.99 Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5201 7 ISBN 978 0 7123 5211 6 ISBN 978 0 7123 5255 0 ISBN 978 0 7123 5235 2 ISBN 978 0 7123 5783 8 ISBN 978 0 7123 5699 2 240 pages, 190 x 130 mm 240 pages, 190 x 130 mm 240 pages, 190 x 130 mm 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm 272 pages, 190 x 130 mm 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm

34 Crime Classics Crime Classics 35 Death in the The Secret of The Poisoned The Sussex The Cornish The Lake Tunnel High Eldersham Chocolates Case Downs Murder Coast Murder District Murder Miles Burton Miles Burton Anthony Berkeley John Bude John Bude John Bude

Paperback £8.99 Paperback £8.99 Paperback £8.99 Paperback £8.99 Paperback £8.99 Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5641 1 ISBN 978 0 7123 5609 1 ISBN 978 0 7123 5653 4 ISBN 978 0 7123 5796 8 ISBN 978 0 7123 5715 9 ISBN 978 0 7123 5716 6 224 pages, 190 x 130 mm 272 pages, 190 x 130 mm 272 pages, 190 x 130 mm 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm

Death of a The Dead Shall Be Murder Death on The Cheltenham Portrait of a Murderer Busybody Raised & Murder Underground the Riviera Square Murder A Christmas Crime Story George Bellairs of a Quack Mavis Doriel Hay John Bude John Bude Anne Meredith George Bellairs

Paperback £8.99 Paperback £8.99 Paperback £8.99 Paperback £8.99 Paperback £8.99 Hardback £14.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5644 2 ISBN 978 0 7123 5652 7 ISBN 978 0 7123 5725 8 ISBN 978 0 7123 5637 4 ISBN 978 0 7123 5648 0 ISBN 978 0 7123 5245 1 224 pages, 190 x 130 mm 352 pages, 190 x 130 mm 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm 224 pages, 190 x 130 mm 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5686 2 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm

36 Crime Classics Crime Classics 37 Serpents in Eden Crimson Snow Murder at the Manor Silent Nights Capital Crimes Resorting to Murder Countryside Crimes Winter Mysteries Country House Mysteries Christmas Mysteries London Mysteries Holiday Mysteries ed. Martin Edwards ed. Martin Edwards ed. Martin Edwards ed. Martin Edwards ed. Martin Edwards ed. Martin Edwards

Paperback £8.99 Paperback £8.99 Paperback £8.99 Paperback £8.99 Paperback £8.99 Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5794 4 ISBN 978 0 7123 5665 7 ISBN 978 0 7123 0993 6 ISBN 978 0 7123 5610 7 ISBN 978 0 7123 5749 4 ISBN 978 0 7123 5748 7 304 pages, 190 x 130 mm 320 pages, 190 x 130 mm 384 pages, 190 x 130 mm 256 pages, 190 x 130 mm 320 pages, 190 x 130 mm 320 pages, 190 x 130 mm

Murder of a Lady Death of Anton Quick Curtain Thirteen Guests The Z Murders Mystery A Scottish Mystery Alan Melville Alan Melville J Jefferson Farjeon J Jefferson Farjeon in White Anthony Wynne J Jefferson Farjeon

Paperback £8.99 Paperback £8.99 Paperback £8.99 Paperback £8.99 Paperback £8.99 Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5623 7 ISBN 978 0 7123 5788 3 ISBN 978 0 7123 5789 0 ISBN 978 0 7123 5601 5 ISBN 978 0 7123 5621 3 ISBN 978 0 7123 5770 8 272 pages, 190 x 130 mm 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm 256 pages, 190 x 130 mm 256 pages, 190 x 130 mm 256 pages, 190 x 130 mm

38 Crime Classics Crime Classics 39 Antidote to The Hog’s A Scream in Soho Murder in The Female The Notting Venom Back Mystery John G Brandon Piccadilly Detective Hill Mystery Freeman Wills Crofts Freeman Wills Crofts Charles Kingston Andrew Forrester Charles Warren Adams

Paperback £8.99 Paperback £8.99 Paperback £8.99 Paperback £8.99 Paperback £8.99 Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5779 1 ISBN 978 0 7123 5797 5 ISBN 978 0 7123 5745 6 ISBN 978 0 7123 5795 1 ISBN 978 0 7123 5759 3 ISBN 978 0 7123 5626 8 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm 336 pages, 190 x 130 mm 256 pages, 190 x 130 mm 320 pages, 190 x 130 mm 336 pages, 190 x 130 mm 256 pages, 190 x 130 mm

The 12.30 Mystery in the Death of The Santa Death on From Croydon Channel an Airman Klaus Murder the Cherwell Freeman Wills Crofts Freeman Wills Crofts Christopher St John Mavis Doriel Hay Mavis Doriel Hay Sprigg

Paperback £8.99 Paperback £8.99 Paperback £8.99 Paperback £8.99 Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5649 7 ISBN 978 0 7123 5651 0 ISBN 978 0 7123 5615 2 ISBN 978 0 7123 5630 5 ISBN 978 0 7123 5726 5 352 pages, 190 x 130 mm 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm

40 Crime Classics Crime Classics 41 BRITISH LIBRARY CLASSIC THRILLERS BRITISH LIBRARY SCIENCE FICTION CLASSICS

Passage of Arms A Kind of Anger The Light of Day Four-Sided Triangle Shoot at the Moon Eric Ambler Eric Ambler Eric Ambler William F Temple William F Temple

Paperback £8.99 Paperback £8.99 Paperback £8.99 Paperback £8.99 Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5655 8 ISBN 978 0 7123 5645 9 ISBN 978 0 7123 5650 3 ISBN 978 0 7123 5231 4 ISBN 978 0 7123 5256 7 256 pages, 190 x 130 mm 256 pages, 190 x 130 mm 256 pages, 190 x 130 mm 304 pages, 190 x 130 mm 240 pages, 190 x 130 mm

Moonrise Lost Mars The Golden Age The Golden Age The End of the Web The Last Best Friend of Lunar Adventures of the Red Planet George Sims George Sims Edited and introduced by Mike Ashley Edited and introduced by Mike Ashley

Paperback £7.99 Paperback £7.99 Paperback £8.99 Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5682 4 ISBN 978 0 7123 5684 8 ISBN 978 0 7123 5275 8 ISBN 978 0 7123 5240 6 192 pages, 190 x 130 mm 192 pages, 190 x 130 mm 352 pages, 190 x 130 mm 304 pages, 190 x 130 mm

42 Classic Thrillers Science Fiction Classics 43 BRITISH LIBRARY TALES OF THE WEIRD BRITISH LIBRARY CHILDREN’S BOOKS

From the Depths Haunted Houses Glimpses of My Book of Stories My Book of Stories My Book of Stories Write Your Own Write Your Own Fairy Tales Write Your Own Myths and Other Strange Two Novels by the Unknown Adventure Stories Deborah Patterson Deborah Patterson Tales of the Sea Charlotte Riddell Lost Ghost Stories Deborah Patterson Edited by Mike Ashley Edited by Andrew Smith Edited by Mike Ashley

Paperback £9.99 Paperback £9.99 Paperback £9.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5635 0 ISBN 978 0 7123 5642 8 ISBN 978 0 7123 5643 5 96 pages, 200 x 170 mm 96 pages, 200 x 170 mm 96 pages, 200 x 170 mm My Book of Stories Great Voyages Around the World Write Your Own Daring Adventurers From in 80 Maps Shakespearean Tales James Cook to Gertrude Bell Clare Hibbert Deborah Patterson Deborah Patterson

Paperback £8.99 Paperback £8.99 Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5236 9 ISBN 978 0 7123 5251 2 ISBN 978 0 7123 5266 6 320 pages, 190 x 130 mm 354 pages, 190 x 130 mm 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm

Mortal Echoes Spirits of the Season Encounters Christmas Hauntings with the End Edited by Tanya Kirk Paperback £9.99 Hardback £14.99 Hardback £14.99 Edited by Greg Buzwell ISBN 978 0 7123 5634 3 ISBN 978 0 7123 5285 7 ISBN 978 0 7123 5693 0 96 pages, 200 x 170 mm 96 pages, 280 x 220 mm 96 pages, 280 x 220 mm Revolutions Revolutions Moments in History Beliefs and Ideas that that Changed the World Changed the World Clare Hibbert Clare Hibbert

Hardback £12.99 Hardback £12.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5670 1 ISBN 978 0 7123 5680 0 Paperback £8.99 Paperback £8.99 64 pages, 280 x 210 mm 64 pages, 280 x 210 mm ISBN 978 0 7123 5281 9 ISBN 978 0 7123 5252 9 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm

44 Tales of the Weird Children’s Books 45 Art and Design

The Art and History Buddhism Illuminated Graven Images The Paper Zoo Soho The Book of the Censored Fashion Illustration of Calligraphy Manuscript Art from The Art of the Woodcut Hardback £25 The Heart of Bohemian London British Library A Literary History in Britain Hardback £25 Southeast Asia Hardback £12.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5743 2 Paperback £10 Hardback £25 of Subversion & Control Society and the Seasons ISBN 978 0 7123 5668 8 Hardback £50 ISBN 978 0 7123 5672 5 ISBN 978 0 7123 5657 2 ISBN 978 0 7123 5837 8 Hardback £25 Hardback £25 ISBN 978 0 7123 5206 2 ISBN 978 0 7123 5200 0 Gift/Humour Censored ISBN 978 0 7123 5689 3

James Cook Peonies and Pomegranates Writing Britain’s Ruins Astrology in Medieval Magic in Medieval Food Fights & A History of Children’s Books The Voyages Lines in the Ice Botanic Illustrations from Asia Hardback £30 Manuscripts Manuscripts Culture Wars in 100 Books Hardback £40 Hardback £25 Hardback £14.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 0978 3 Hardback £12.99 Hardback £12.99 Hardback £20 Hardback £25 ISBN 978 0 7123 5295 6 ISBN 978 0 7123 5606 0 ISBN 978 0 7123 0974 5 ISBN 978 0 7123 5210 9 ISBN 978 0 7123 5205 5 ISBN 978 0 7123 5658 9 ISBN 978 0 7123 5698 5 Paperback £25 ISBN 978 0 7123 5290 1

A Book of Book Lists The Cocktail Book The Gentleman’s Art of The Philosophy of Beards Medieval Monsters Persuading the People Picturing India Rough Spirits and High Society A Bibliophile’s Compendium Hardback £8.99 Dressing with Economy Hardback £7.99 Hardback £10 Hardback £25 Hardback £30 The Culture of Drink Paperback £7.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5690 9 Hardback £7.95 ISBN 978 0 7123 5766 1 ISBN 978 0 7123 5790 6 ISBN 978 0 7123 5654 1 ISBN 978 0 7123 5695 4 Hardback £20 ISBN 978 0 7123 5225 3 ISBN 978 0 7123 5886 6 ISBN 978 0 7123 5215 4 History Literature

The Philosophy of Coffee Physical Training Simplified Bloomsbury Camden Town Russian Revolution: Tudor Monarchs Warfare in Medieval Decadence Brian Williams The Whole Man Considered Beyond the Establishment Dreams of Another London Hope, Tragedy, Myths Lives in Letters Manuscripts A Literary Anthology Hardback £9.99 Hardback £7.99 Paperback £10 Paperback £10 Hardback £40 Hardback £14.99 Hardback £12.99 Hardback £20 ISBN 978 0 7123 5230 7 ISBN 978 0 7123 5683 1 ISBN 978 0 7123 5656 5 ISBN 978 0 7123 5694 7 ISBN 978 0 7123 5677 0 ISBN 978 0 7123 5774 6 ISBN 978 0 7123 5605 3 ISBN 978 0 7123 5663 3

46 Selected Backlist Selected Backlist 47 Audio

British Bird Sounds Dawn Chorus The Ghost Stories of The Haunted Library Lost in a Pyramid Horror: A Literary History Maps and the 20th Sea Monsters on Medieval Two CDs £16 inc. VAT CD £10 inc. VAT M R James Paperback £8.99 Paperback £8.99 Hardback £20 Century: Drawing the Line and Renaissance Maps ISBN 978 0 7123 0512 9 ISBN 978 0 7123 0520 4 Hardback £12.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5604 6 ISBN 978 0 7123 5617 6 ISBN 978 0 7123 5608 4 Hardback £40 Paperback £14.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5205 5 ISBN 978 0 7123 5662 6 ISBN 978 0 7123 5771 5

Night in the Front Line Out of the Deep And The Prisoner’s Defence Science Fiction And Other Second World Other Supernatural Tales And Other First World A Literary History War Stories Paperback £8.99 War Stories Hardback £20 Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5675 6 Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5692 3 ISBN 978 0 7123 5697 8 ISBN 978 0 7123 5671 8 Maps

Silver Bullets The Tell-Tale Heart and The Writer Abroad Charting the Oceans Classic Werewolf Stories Other Tales Paperback £12.99 Paperback £14.99 Paperback £8.99 Hardback £12.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5787 6 ISBN 978 0 7123 5616 9 ISBN 978 0 7123 5220 8 ISBN 978 0 7123 5754 8

London: A History in Maps Hardback £30 A History of the 20th ISBN 978 0 7123 5879 8 London: A Life in Maps Mapping the Heavens Century in 100 Maps Paperback £14.99 Hardback £14.99 Hardback £25 ISBN 978 0 7123 5607 7 ISBN 978 0 7123 5265 9 ISBN 978 0 7123 5856 9

48 Selected Backlist Selected Backlist 49 Included in Crimesquad’s 2018 As featured in The Sunday Times Summer Top Ten Crime Club and The Times Diary

Lovecraftian fiction, with its potential to Hugely enjoyable for its period detail. What makes the novel so readable is redefine the role of humanity within the Sunday Express its depiction of life in the House of universe and its promise of great monsters Commons ... [Wilkinson’s] affectionately from beyond, has been incredibly The Arsenal Stadium Mystery is an satirical insider’s view … goes some way influential for writers the world over. unusual and inventive detective story that to solving one of the biggest and most The Irish Times works murder and intrigue into a setting urgent of current mysteries: what on earth left largely untouched by the majority makes our politicians tick? These short tales of sheer horror have of other crime authors … It features a Daily Telegraph far more impact … I think it’s safe to say seemingly unique method of killing, already that I’ll be recommending the an insightful detective and plenty of As one of the first female cabinet whole collection when I finish it. viable suspects, and it is another worthy ministers, she brings an easy familiarity Fiction Fan addition to the British Library’s excellent with Westminster to her only crime novel. Crime Classics series. Daily Mail Nudge Book For anyone who is interested in the A well paced novel with an helpful and House of Commons, but also likes a informative introduction from Martin truly good yarn, this story, written in Edwards, this is to be recommended 1932, fits the bill brilliantly … here is a to even the most football resistant well-constructed, imaginative take on the mystery fan. classic-era murder. Northern Reader On Magazine

I marvel at the grey matter somersaulting A neat little ‘locked room mystery’ which that goes on for everyone involved! combines politics, finances, and life Bookphace during the Great Depression. Red Lips and Bibliomaniacs

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