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Today, Buddhism is one of the major world religions, with approximately 500 million followers worldwide and nearly 200,000 in the UK. Beginning with Buddha’s Enlightenment in north India in the 6th century BCE, Buddhism was adopted across Asia through the three main schools of Mahayana, Theravada and . Buddhism is well known and widely practised in the West today, and many people embrace a Buddhist lifestyle or certain practices, such as Buddhist meditation.

Hardback with jacket £40 Accompanying the largest ever display of ISBN 978 0 7123 5234 5 Paperback £25 the British Library’s Buddhist treasures, ISBN 978 0 7123 5239 0 Buddhism follows the key concepts of 224 pages, 280 x 220 mm the exhibition in four main chapters: the Over 100 colour illustrations life of the historical Buddha, Buddhist Publishing October 2019 philosophy, the spread of Buddhism and Jana Igunma is Henry Ginsburg Buddhist practice. These chapters are Curator for Thai, Lao and Cambodian interspersed with short entries explaining collections at the British Library. the significance of specific items. San San May is Curator of Burmese Astonishing colour and beauty emanate collections at the British Library. from the scrolls, and printed Their joint publication, Buddhism books that are reproduced throughout, Illuminated: Art from while the idea of the ‘Middle Path’ – South-East Asia, was published by promoting mindfulness, compassion, the British Library in 2018. tolerance and non-violence – is presented with a renewed relevance for a twenty- first-century audience.

02 New Titles New Titles 03 Pacific An Ocean of Wonders Philip J Hatfield

If you centre a globe on Kiritimati (Christmas Island), all you see around it is a vast expanse of ocean. Islands of various sizes float in view while glimpses of continents encroach on the fringes, but this is a view dominated by water. The immense stretch of the Pacific Ocean is inhabited by a diverse array of peoples and cultures bound by a common thread: their relationship with the sea. Hardback £30 ISBN 978 0 7123 5219 2 224 pages, 220 x 280 mm The rich history of the Pacific is explored 120 colour illustrations through specific objects, each one Publishing September 2019 beautifully illustrated, from the earliest human engagement with the Pacific Philip Hatfield is Head of the Eccles through to the modern day. With entries Centre for American Studies and has held a range of curatorial posts at the covering mapping, trade, whaling, flora British Library. His illustrated history and fauna, and the myriad vessels used of Arctic exploration, Lines in the Ice, to traverse the ocean, Pacific builds on was published by the British Library recent interest in the voyages of James in 2016. Cook to tell a broader history.

This visually stunning publication highlights the importance of an ocean that covers very nearly a third of the surface of the globe, and which has dramatically shaped the world and people around it.

04 New Titles New Titles 05 Christmas Traditions George Goodwin

A stocking-filler-sized compilation of Christmas lore, revealing the intriguing origins of our annual festivities. This delightful compendium explores the feast of Christmas down the ages, with each tradition accompanied by charming vintage illustrations from the British Library’s unparalleled collection of Christmas books, cards and ephemera.

Why do we celebrate Christ’s birthday on 25 December? When did we start kissing under the mistletoe? Who invented the Christmas cracker? When did roast turkey and Christmas pudding become ‘traditional’? Where has Captain Christmas gone? Why did Santa Claus first appear dressed in and stripes and who invented red-nosed Rudolph to Hardback £14.99 pull his sleigh? ISBN 978 0 7123 5294 9 128 pages, 187 x 124 mm 60 illustrations Christmas Traditions is a celebratory Publishing September 2019 guide to Christmases past and a welcome Christmas present. As George Goodwin is a historian wrote: ‘There seems a magic in the very whose previous books include name of Christmas.’ in London: The British Life of America’s Founding Father, Fatal Colours: Towton 1461, and Fatal Rivalry: Flodden 1513.

06 New Titles New Titles 07 The Menu: A History Memorable Meals from Elvis’ Wedding Breakfast to Eating on the Moon Eve Marleau

A curated collection of 100 memorable meals from the last 250 years, both fascinating and entertaining. The humble menu, as a record of the food we eat, tells us much about who we were and how we lived.

From the historically significant to the unexpected, discover what was eaten at the first Nobel Prize dinner; what Barack Obama chose for his inauguration meal; what the Tsar and Tsarina ate at their infamous fancy-dress balls; why the first pre-made sandwich was so significant; and what sort of inflight grub was served up at supersonic speeds on Concorde. Step in time to dinner dances at the Hardback £20 Blackpool Tower Ballroom; delight in ISBN 978 0 7123 5300 7 Elvis and Priscilla’s wedding breakfast; 224 pages, 246 x 170 mm enjoy Parisian cocktails at the Moulin 100 illustrations Rouge and marvel at Els Quatre Gats’ Publishing October 2019 menu, designed by Picasso. Eve Marleau is a food writer and editor. She has written for To Start and is the author of Menu Firsts The Kitchen Shelf and Bake in Black. Food Inventions She lives in London. Iconic Menus Mains Meals that Changed History Events that Changed Menus History of Cookbooks Desserts Famous Feasts Food in the Arts Last Meals

08 New Titles New Titles 09 Portrait of a People Projecting the Nanny State in Post-War Britain David Welch

The Central Office of Information Archive at the British Library consists of a unique collection of over 15,000 free information and guidance leaflets, posters, booklets and other promotional materials dating from the 1940s to 1997. This astonishingly rich and truly unique collection – designed and produced for a range of UK government departments and agencies by the COI – reveals what the government wanted its citizens to think or know about topical issues and the image of Britain it wanted to project to the outside world.

In Portrait of a People one of the Hardback £30 world’s leading writers on propaganda ISBN 978 0 7123 5325 0 and information projection presents a 256 pages, 280 x 220 mm remarkably detailed history and critique 150 colour illustrations of the workings and development of the Publishing October 2019 COI from its origins in the Second World David Welch is Professor of Modern War through to the era of AIDS and the History and Director of the Centre threat of nuclear war. As such this richly for the Study of War, Propaganda illustrated volume is of enduring interest & Society at the University of Kent. to social historians, cold war historians He has published many books on and all those interested in post-war propaganda including Persuading the graphic design. People: British Propaganda in World War II, Germany and Propaganda in The collection covers the whole World War I, The Third Reich: Politics spectrum of British contemporary life, and Propaganda, and Propaganda: including education, public health issues, Power and Persuasion. food safety, nuclear threat and civil defence, and careers in the public sector and armed forces.

10 New Titles New Titles 11 The Illustrated Police News A General History of the Lives, The Shocks, Scandals and Sensations of Murders and Adventures of the the Week 1864–1938 Linda Stratmann Most Notorious Highwaymen Captain Charles Johnson

CHILD CARRIED OFF BY EAGLE! Captain Charles Johnson’s celebrated LION’S ADVENTURES IN A PLAYGROUND! A General History of the Pirates (1724) MAN KILLED BY A COFFIN! is the most famous book about pirates ever written. Buoyed by the volume’s The Illustrated Police News cost just runaway success, Johnson followed up a penny, providing an affordable with the equally engrossing The Lives illustrated roundup of ‘all the startling and Adventures of the Most Famous events of the week’ from its first issue Highwaymen (1734) which, published published on 20th February 1864. here for the first time in two centuries, provides over 50 accounts of the most Promising to educate the people with notorious British criminals of the fantastic features such as ‘BURGLARIES seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. OF THE WEEK’ and its bountiful, often These include the famous highwayman outlandish illustrations, the paper was William Davis, alias The Golden also a – perhaps unexpected – champion Farmer, the cross-Channel gentleman of social change. With crime historian NEW highwayman Claude du Vall, the prolific Linda Stratmann as a guide, the articles EDITION road adventurer Old Mob and the x and special reports of the newspaper royalist carriage raider James Hind. provide a fascinating view into the Hardback £12.99 reading tastes and daily lives of its Hardback £17.99 Johnson’s volumes, featuring fictional ISBN 978 0 7123 5249 9 readership throughout the decades. ISBN 978 0 7123 5274 1 224 pages, 210 x 149 mm 336 pages, 234 x 156 mm accounts based on factual sources, are 100 illustrations 25 paintings, artworks and original engravings significant as the forerunners of the Publishing September 2019 Led by the newspaper’s bombastic Publishing September 2019 real-life criminal biography genre, and imagery sourced from the Library’s for their influence on such early Linda Stratmann is a prolific author extensive collection, this new book revels The identity of Captain Charles Johnson as Defoe’s Moll Flanders and Fielding’s on the history of crime, with books in the infamy and social significance has long been a mystery. Suspected Jonathan Wild. Originally published in including Chloroform: The Quest for behind the exuberant headlines of this as a pseudonym for , size complete with fine engravings, Oblivion (2003), Notorious Blasted extraordinary periodical. author of Robinson Crusoe, or even as Rascal (2008), Fraudsters and Charlatans a pirate himself, neither has ever been this new edition of Highwaymen not (2010) and Cruel Deeds and Dreadful confirmed. His books are the prime only includes the very best of these Calamities (2011). source of information on the great age original decorative features but also of piracy and road adventurers and have presents a series of related illustrations, inspired numerous plays, books and films playbills and portraits from the British including Treasure Island, Peter Pan and Library collections. Pirates of the Caribbean.

12 New Titles New Titles 13 The Philosophy of Tea Reading Room Tony Gebely Inspirational Extracts for Every Day of the Year Ian Sansom

How did drinking the infusions of This is a playful and provocative a unique plant from China become a collection of 365 extracts sourced from vital part of everyday life? This gift the British Library’s collections. Selected book presents an entertaining and to challenge and inform the reader, illuminating introduction to the history each excerpt is accompanied by the and culture of tea, from its origins in unique shelfmark number of the source the Far East to the flavours and properties publication. Encompassing a wide range of different varieties, and the rituals of great works in , poetry, of tea preparation and drinking around essays and letters, historical and scientific the world. treatises, and including beloved and popular authors as well as curiosities and This simple hot beverage is suffused obscurities, each extract will encourage with artistic and religious overtones. enquiry and stimulate the imagination. The Chinese Ch’a Ching gave very precise guidelines to the preparation Beautifully designed and illustrated with and sipping of tea, and the Japanese the Library’s collections, with one extract tea ceremony elevated it to an artform. for every day of the year, this book can be Following its introduction to the royal read as a thought to start the day or can court in the seventeenth century, the be dipped into for inspiration at random. British created their own traditions, from Hardback £9.99 the elaborate etiquette of afternoon tea to Hardback £17.99 Includes extracts from: ISBN 978 0 7123 5259 8 the humble pot of tea at the heart of family ISBN 978 0 7123 5254 3 : The Mirror of the Sea: 112 pages, 200 x 130 mm life, and the modern appreciation for 320 pages, 234 x 156 mm Memories and Impressions 30 illustrations 120 illustrations speciality infusions. : The Interpretation Publishing September 2019 Publishing September 2019 of Dreams Betty Friedan: The Feminine Mystique Tony Gebely is a tea enthusiast and Ian Sansom is the author of more David Hume: A Treatise of Human Nature Tea: A expert. He is the author of than a dozen books and writes for Plato: The Republic User’s Guide The Guardian TLS The Irish (2016), and the founder , the and Hannah Arendt: The Human Condition World Times of the award-winning blog . He is also a regular broadcaster : letter to Cassandra Austen, of Tea . on BBC Radio 3 and Radio 4. 17/18 Oct. 1815 Charles Dickens: A : The English People : An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations : Leaves of Grass

14 New Titles New Titles 15 and the Pussycat A Children’s Literary Christmas The Adventures of Famous Writers and their Pets An Anthology Alex Johnson

Behind every great writer there is a Immerse yourself in some truly festive beloved pet, providing inspiration in magic with this brand-new collection life and in death, and companionship of the finest Christmas stories, prose, in what is often a lonely working songs and poetry from some of the existence. They also offer practical greatest writers in the English language. services, such as personal protection, Inspired by the approach and style of although they may sometimes eat first the British Library’s 2018 bestseller A drafts or bite visitors. Literary Christmas, this carefully chosen anthology moves its focus to those This book salutes all of the cats and dogs, most deeply involved in the wonders ravens and budgerigars, monkeys and of Christmas, the Christmas girls and guinea pigs, wombats, turtles, and two Christmas boys. laughing jackasses, who enriched the lives of their masters and mistresses, sat on Twenty-four seasonal chapters allow their keyboards, slept in their beds, and the excitement to build as parents occasionally provided the creative spark and grandparents can share pages for their stories and poems. Gathered of unforgettable adventures, festive here are the tales of Beatrix Potter’s traditions, tales of elves, snowmen rabbit, Benjamin Bouncer; ’s Hardback with jacket £12.99 and reindeer, fairytales, folklore and ISBN 978 0 7123 5279 6 Flexibound £9.99 bear; the six cats of T S Eliot; Camus’ 152 pages, 210 x 149 mm family fun. Age-old pleasures from ISBN 978 0 7123 5244 4 cat, Cigarette; Arthur C Clarke’s dog, 50 illustrations those essential Christmas favourites, 240 pages, 198 x 130 mm Sputnik; and George Orwell’s goat, Publishing September 2019 including Dickens, , 30 illustrations Muriel. Enid Blyton’s fox terrier, Bobs, George Mackay Brown, Robert L May Publishing August 2019 ‘wrote’ her columns in Teacher’s World and Ezra Jack Keats, are presented Alex Johnson is a journalist, blogger , while John Steinbeck’s poodle alongside charming, but often more and the author of A Book of Book accompanied him on his 1960 US road edgy, award-winning contemporary Lists and Shelf Life, both published trip, their exploits published as Travels voices. This treasure of stories is by the British Library, as well as with Charley. dedicated brought to life by an equally beautiful Books Towns, Improbable , her 1937 Dumb Witness to her selection of seasonal illustrations from Bookshelf and Shedworking. He runs favourite dog, Peter – the ultimate tribute. the collections of the Library and the the websites Shedworking artwork of some of the great modern www.shedworking.co.uk, Bookshelf book illustrators. www.onthebookshelf.co.uk and The Micro Life www.themicrolife.co.uk. Alex lives in St Albans with his wife, three children, and several shelves of books about books.

16 New Titles New Titles 17 The British Library Magnificent Maps Puzzle Book Philip Parker

The Library has one of the largest and most impressive cartographic collections in the world, including manuscript maps and atlases, administrative records and plans, large-scale surveys and digital maps. From this rich resource, 100 fascinating examples ranging from world and city maps, celestial and sea charts, literary and statistical maps, curiosities and fake maps have been selected as the basis for this puzzle book.

Each map is faithfully reproduced with a description of its creation and use, followed by details showing areas of particular interest. Readers are asked to scrutinise the maps to answer a series of historical and geographical questions, all the while enjoying new perspectives Flexibound £14.99 on the world we live in provided by our ISBN 978 0 7123 5299 4 eclectic and extensive archive. 240 pages, 216 x 143 mm 100 maps with details Publishing October 2019

Philip Parker is a former diplomat and publisher who specialises in the late antique and early medieval periods. Philip ran the The Times series of mapping titles at HarperCollins publishers. Philip’s most recent books are The Northmen’s Fury: A History of the Viking World, The Cold War Spy Pocket Manual which he compiled and edited, and most recently The Collins History of Britain in Maps.

18 New Titles New Titles 19 BRITISH LIBRARY CRIME CLASSICS The Pocket Detective 2 Fell Murder 100+ More Puzzles, Brainteasers and Conundrums A Lancashire Mystery Compiled by Kate Jackson E C R Lorac

Fancy yourself a golden age detective? ... This crime is conditioned by the In these pages lie the clues you will need place. To understand the one you’ve got to crack the most impenetrable of cases. to study the other... Culprits lurk between the lines of word searches. Imposters are unearthed in First published in 1944 Fell Murder anagrams. A keen eye and a quick wit sees E C R Lorac at the height of her are your best tools for eliminating the considerable powers as a purveyor of suspects in a range of puzzles, suitable well-made, traditional and emphatic for all ages and levels. . The book presents a fascinating ‘return of the prodigal’ For seven years, the British Library mystery set in the later stages of the has brought neglected Second World War amidst the close-knit writers into the spotlight in a series farmerfolk community of Lancashire’s of republished novels and anthologies. lovely Lune valley. Updated with brand new puzzle styles and including the very latest British The Garths had farmed their fertile Library Crime Classics titles, there are acres for generations and fine land it even more ways to solve the mystery was with the towering hills of the Lake in this sequel to The Pocket Detective. Country on the far horizon. Garthmere Paperback £8.99 Hall itself was old before Flodden Field, Flexibound £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5204 8 and here hot-tempered Robert Garth, ISBN 978 0 7123 5315 1 256 pages, 190 x 130 mm still hale and hearty at eighty-two, ruled Publishing July 2019 144 pages, 155 x 100 mm his household with a rod of iron. The 20 full-colour puzzles Publishing September 2019 E C R Lorac is a pen name of Edith peaceful dales and fells of the north Caroline Rivett (1894–1958). A country provide the setting for this Kate Jackson reviews classic Londoner born and bred, she settled grim story of a murder, a setting which crime fiction on her blog, in Lunesdale in her fifties. Sound is one of the attractive features of an www.crossexaminingcrime.com. craftsmanship and compassion for the unusual and distinctive tale of evil Her first collection of puzzles, underdog characterise her writing, passions and murderous hate in a small The Pocket Detective, was and these qualities, much in evidence rural community. published by the British Library in Fell Murder, ensure that her work in 2018. has an enduring appeal. Her books include Bats in the Belfry, Murder in the Mill-Race, Fire in the Thatch and Murder by Matchlight, all available as British Library Crime Classics.

20 New Titles – Crime Classics New Titles – Crime Classics 21 The Body in the Dumb River It Walks by Night A Mystery A Mystery George Bellairs John Dickson Carr

For the most part, the dead man We are thrilled to welcome John Dickson received public sympathy. A decent, Carr into the Crime Classics series with hardworking chap, with not an enemy his first novel, a brooding locked room anywhere. People were surprised that mystery originally published in 1930. anybody should want to kill Jim. In the smoke-wreathed gloom of a But Jim has been drowned in the Parisian salon, Inspector Bencolin has Dumb River, near Ely, miles from his summoned his allies to discuss a peculiar Yorkshire home. His body, clearly case. A would-be murderer, imprisoned dumped in the usually silent (‘dumb’) for his attempt to kill his wife, has waterway, has been discovered before escaped and is known to have visited a the killer intended – disturbed by a plastic surgeon. His whereabouts remain torrential flood. a mystery, though with his former wife poised to marry another, Bencolin With critical urgency it’s up to predicts his return. Superintendent Littlejohn of to trace the mystery of the Sure enough, the Inspector’s worst unassuming victim’s murder to its suspicions are realised when the source, leaving waves of scandal and beheaded body of the new suitor is Paperback £8.99 sensation in his wake as the hidden, Paperback £8.99 discovered in a locked room of the salon, ISBN 978 0 7123 5214 7 salacious dealings of Jim Teasdale ISBN 978 0 7123 5264 2 with no conceivable exit. Bencolin sets 240 pages, 190 x 130 mm begin to surface. 272 pages, 190 x 130 mm off into the Parisian night to unravel the Publishing August 2019 Publishing September 2019 dumbfounding mystery and track down George Bellairs was the pseudonym John Dickson Carr (1906–1977) the sadistic killer. of Harold Blundell (1902–1985), a was a hugely popular and prolific prominent banker and philanthropist author of crime fiction, regarded as Also includes the rare Inspector Bencolin from Manchester who became the one of the finest writers of ‘Golden short story ‘The Shadow of the Goat’. author of a popular series of detective Age’ mysteries. Though born in stories featuring Thomas Littlejohn, Pennsylvania, USA, Carr developed a which were published for nearly distinctly ‘British’ style to his mystery forty years. writing from his time in England and became one of only two Americans ever admitted to the .

22 New Titles – Crime Classics New Titles – Crime Classics 23 The Measure of Malice The Christmas Egg Scientific Mysteries A Seasonal Mystery Edited by Martin Edwards Mary Kelly

The detective’s role is simple: to catch The Easter egg. I told ‘im. All white an’ the culprit. Yet behind each casual glittering, lovely, like ice an’ frost an’ observation lies a learned mind, trained stars … An’ I lost it, I lost it. I lost all on finding the key to the mystery. of it. Crimes, whatever their form, are often best solved through deliberations of logic In a gloomy flat off Islington High – preferably amid complicated gadgetry Street, Chief Inspector Brett and a pile of hefty scientific volumes. Nightingale and Sergeant Beddoes find an old woman dead. The Princess The detectives in this collection are Olga Karukhin, who fled from Russia masters of scientific deduction, whether at the time of the Revolution, has lived they are identifying the perpetrator in terror of being discovered ever since. from a single scrap of fabric, or picking out the poison from a sinister line-up. Olga’s grandson, Ivan, appears to have Containing stories by R Austin Freeman, run from the scene, but is later seen J J Connington and the master of logical returning to the flat as though oblivious reasoning, , to the terrible crime. Taking place The Measure of Malice collects tales of between 22nd and 24th December, rational thinking to prove the power of Nightingale’s enquiry takes him across Paperback £8.99 the human brain over villainous deeds. Paperback £8.99 London, culminating in the wrapping ISBN 978 0 7123 5289 5 ISBN 978 0 7123 5310 6 of the mystery on Christmas Eve. 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm Publishing September 2019 Publishing October 2019 This never-before-republished novel Martin Edwards is series consultant Mary Kelly was an English crime from 1958 has a noticeably different for British Library Crime Classics. He is writer best known for the Inspector feel to the neat puzzles and country an award-winning crime writer, Chair Brett Nightingale series. A crime house mysteries of crime fiction’s golden of the Crime Writers’ Association and writing contemporary of Julian age, revealing the darker side of police President of the Detection Club. The Symons, Kelly infused her novels detection in an evocative urban setting. Golden Age of Murder, his study of with a refreshingly dark suspense. the Detection Club, was published Her novel The Spoilt Kill, published in 2015 to international acclaim, and in 1961, was given the Gold won the Edgar, Agatha, H R F Keating Dagger Award. and 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.

24 New Titles – Crime Classics New Titles – Crime Classics 25 BRITISH LIBRARY CLASSICS Death in Fancy Dress The Question Mark Anthony Gilbert Muriel Jaeger

… Something really serious and In 1926 Muriel Jaeger, dissatisfied with unpleasant is taking place at Feltham the Utopian visions of H G Wells and Abbey. So often in a detective story Edward Bellamy, set out to explore trivial irregularities like blackmail and ‘The Question Mark’ of what a future murder seem scarcely to ruffle the placid society might look like if human current of domestic affairs … Here, the nature were properly represented. So, atmosphere of suspense and uneasiness disgruntled London office worker Guy really does pervade the household. Martin is pitched 200 years into the Dorothy L Sayers future, where he encounters a seemingly ideal society in which each citizen has The British Secret Service, working to the luxury of every kind of freedom. uncover a large-scale blackmail ring and But as Guy adjusts to the new world, catch its mysterious mastermind ‘The the fractures of this supposed Spider’, find themselves at the country begin to show through, and it seems residence of Feltham Abbey where a as if the inhabitants of this society fancy-dress ball is in full swing. might be just as susceptible to the promises of false messiahs as those of In the tumult of revelry, Sir Ralph the twentieth century. Feltham is found dead. Not the Paperback £8.99 atmosphere that bewildered guest Tony Paperback £8.99 Preceding the publication of Huxley’s ISBN 978 0 7123 5340 3 was expecting, he sets out make sense of ISBN 978 0 7123 5298 7 by 5 years, The 240 pages, 190 x 130 mm the night’s activities and the motives of 272 pages, 190 x 130 mm Question Mark is a significant Publishing November 2019 Publishing July 2019 the other guests. Among them is Hilary, cornerstone in the foundation of the Anthony Gilbert is a pen name an independently minded socialite still Muriel Jaeger (1892–1969) was a Dystopia genre, and an impressive and of Lucy Beatrice Malleson in her costume of vivid silk pyjamas and prolific writer of history books, essays unjustly neglected work of literary (1899–1973) and Death in Fancy accompanying teddy bear… and science fiction, and was amongst science fiction. This edition brings the Dress is considered to be one of the first women to receive degrees at novel back into print for the first time her finest works. It appeared just This classic country house mystery, Somerville College, Oxford. She later since its original publication. before Malleson introduced the first published in 1933, contrasts the became associated with Leonard and mystery readership to her famed, splendours and frivolities of the English , who published her unconventional, and magnificently upper classes with the sombre over- pioneering science fiction novels The Question Mark The Man named detective, Arthur Crook. hang of the First World War and the (1926) and with Six Senses (1927). irresistible complications of deadly familial relationships.

26 New Titles – Crime Classics New Titles – Science Fiction Classics 27 Wild Harbour Menace of the Monster Ian Macpherson Classic Tales of Creatures from Beyond Edited by Mike Ashley

15 May 1944 – This morning I said to The fact that humanity is not alone Terry, ‘I thought I heard guns through in the universe has long preoccupied the night.’ our thoughts. ‘Were you awake too?’ she asked. In this compelling new collection of Something has happened in Europe. short stories from SF’s classic age, our Fearing the approach of war to Britain, visions of ‘other’ are shown in a myriad Terry and Hugh retreat from their home of forms – beings from other worlds, to the remote highlands of Scotland, corrupted lifeforms from our own prepared to live a simple existence planet and entities from unimaginable together whilst the fighting resolves dimensions. itself far away. Amongst these tales, the humble ant Encouraged by Terry, Hugh begins a becomes humanity’s greatest foe, a sailor journal to note down the highs and lows awakes in a hellish landscape terrified by of this return to nature, and to process a monstrous creature from the deep, an their concerns of the oncoming danger. extra-terrestrial apocalypse devastates But as the sound of guns by night grow our world but also brings us together, louder, the grim prospect of encroaching and our race becomes the unwitting Paperback £8.99 war threatens to invade their cherished Paperback £8.99 agent of another species’ survival. Be ISBN 978 0 7123 5224 6 isolation and demolish any hope of ISBN 978 0 7123 5269 7 prepared to face your greatest fears and 272 pages, 190 x 130 mm future peace. 240 pages, 190 x 130 mm relinquish your hold on reality as you Publishing August 2019 Publishing September 2019 confront the menace of the monster. Ian Macpherson (1905–1944) was Macpherson’s only science fiction novel Mike Ashley is the author and editor primarily known for his novels of is a bleak and truly prescient novel of of more than a hundred books, and life in rural Scottish communities, future war first published in 1936, just is one of the foremost historians of Shepherd’s Calendar (1931), Land of 3 years before the outbreak of conflict popular fiction. His is a longstanding Our Fathers (1933) and Pride in the in Europe. A carefully drawn tale of expert and contributor for the British Valley (1936). His novel Wild Harbour survival in the wilderness and the Library and is the editor of the British has been noted for its significance value of our connection with others, Library Science Fiction Classics as an early forerunner of Scottish Wild Harbour is both beautiful and anthologies Lost Mars, Moonrise, science fiction. heart-rending. Menace of the Machine and The End of the World and Other Catastrophes.

28 New Titles – Science Fiction Classics New Titles – Science Fiction Classics 29 BRITISH LIBRARY TALES OF THE WEIRD Beyond Time Evil Roots Classic Tales of Time Unwound Killer Tales of the Botanical Gothic Edited by Mike Ashley Edited by Daisy Butcher

Time travel has long been a staple Strangling vines and meat-hungry flora of science fiction. Removing the fill this unruly garden of strange stories, bonds of time on a story allows for selected for their significance as the seeds many interesting possibilities, but it of the ‘killer plant’ trope in fiction, film also presents complicated problems and video games. and paradoxes. Before the Demogorgon of Stranger In this collection, featuring stories from Things and the appearance of Mario’s the 1880s to the 1960s, we are taken to iconic foe the Piranha Plant, writers the remote future and back to the distant of the nineteenth and early twentieth past; we are trapped in an eternal loop centuries were exploring the lethal and met with visitors and objects from potential of vegetable life, inspired by the future; we come face to face with our new carnivorous species discovered on past selves, and experience the chaos of expeditions into the deep jungles of the living out of sync with everyone else in world and breakthroughs in the grafting the universe. and genetics disciplines of botany.

These are just some of the mind-bending Suddenly, the exotic orchid could narratives to discover as we unwind the become a curiously alluring, yet Paperback £8.99 constraints of time. Paperback £8.99 unsettlingly bloodthirsty menace; the ISBN 978 0 7123 5320 5 ISBN 978 0 7123 5229 1 beautifully sprawling wisteria of the 272 pages, 190 x 130 mm 256 pages, 190 x 130 mm stately home could become anything Publishing October 2019 Publishing August 2019 but civilised, and the experimentation Daisy Butcher is a Doctoral Student of botanists weening new shoots on working on the Open Graves, Open their own blood could become fuel for Minds Project at the University of a new genre of horticultural nightmare. Hertfordshire. Her study focuses Every strain of vegetable threat (and one on depictions of the feminine in deadly fungus) can be found within this gothic and weird fiction, including new collection, representing the very particular discussion of female best tales from the undergrowth. mummies, vampires and, of course, the killer plant.

30 New Titles – Science Fiction Classics New Titles – Tales of the Weird 31 Promethean Horrors Roarings from Further Out Classic Stories of Mad Science Four Weird Novellas by Algernon Blackwood Edited by Xavier Aldana Reyes Edited by Xavier Aldana Reyes

From the imaginations of Gothic It is my firm opinion that …‘The short-story writers such as Edgar Allen Willows’ is the greatest weird tale Poe, , Mary ever written. Shelley, and such later weirdists as H P Lovecraft H P Lovecraft, came one of the most complex of villains – the mad scientist. From one of the most imaginative and prolific authors of twentieth Promethean Horrors presents some century weird fiction come four of of the greatest mad scientists ever the very best strange stories ever told. created, as each cautionary tale explores the consequences of pushing nature The Willows too far. These savants take many Two men become stranded on an forms: there are malcontents who island in the Danube delta, only to strive to create poisonous humans; find that they might be in the domain technologists obsessed with genetic of some greater power from beyond splicing; mesmerists interested in the limits of human experience. the way consciousness operates after death and inventors who believe in a The Wendigo hidden reality. United by an unhealthy A hunting party in Ontario begin to Paperback £8.99 obsession with wanting to reach Paperback £8.99 fear that they are being stalked by an ISBN 978 0 7123 5284 0 beyond their circumstances, these ISBN 978 0 7123 5305 2 entity thought to be confined to legend. 240 pages, 190 x 130 mm mad scientists are marked by their 320 pages, 190 x 130 mm Publishing September 2019 Publishing October 2019 incredible capacity to alter the present, The Man Whom the Trees Loved Dr Xavier Aldana Reyes is Senior a gift that always comes at a price... Algernon Blackwood (1869–1951) A couple is driven apart as the Lecturer in English Literature and was a prolific English writer of husband is enthralled by the Film at Manchester Metropolitan short stories and novels, as well as possessive and jealous spirits University and a member of the a consistent contributor to radio dwelling in the nearby forest. Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies. and early television. His regular He is the editor of Horror: A Literary appearances reading his weird fiction Ancient Sorceries History (2016), The Gothic Tales of and ghost stories for these platforms In conversation with the occult H P Lovecraft (2018) and The earned him the popular epithet of detective and physician Dr John Silence, Weird Tales of William Hope ‘The Ghost Man’. a traveller relates his nightmarish visit Hodgson (2019), all published by to a strange town in Northern France, the British Library. and the maddening secret from his past revealed by its inhabitants.

32 New Titles – Tales of the Weird New Titles – Tales of the Weird 33 Tales of the Tattooed Writing: Making Your Mark An Anthology of Ink Edited by Ewan Clayton Edited by John Miller

The excruciating beauty, exoticism and Published to coincide with a landmark mystery of tattoos is laid bare in this interactive exhibition at the British new collection of 12 stories ranging from Library, this beautifully illustrated the 1880s to the 1940s. book celebrates the act of writing from across the globe. It explores Uncovering the history of the tattoo the history of writing and includes in classic fiction for the first time, this more than 150 illustrations from original selection depicts the tattoo as carved stone inscriptions and a catalyst for scandal in society, as a medieval manuscripts to samples of symbol for an unknowable supernatural early , modern handwriting force, and as transcendent living art and digital inputting systems. merging the spirits of a tattooer and his or her living canvas.

Featuring previously hidden works from the pages of rare literary such as ‘The Starfish Tattoo’ alongside such classics of the genre as Tanizaki’s Hardback with jacket £40 ‘The Tattooer’ and Saki’s ‘The ISBN 978 0 7123 5253 6 Paperback £8.99 Background’, this exploration of the Paperback £25 ISBN 978 0 7123 5330 4 ISBN 978 0 7123 5248 2 tattoo in fiction is guaranteed to leave 224 pages, 280 x 220 mm 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm an indelible impression. Publishing November 2019 Over 100 colour illustrations Published April 2019 John Miller is Senior Lecturer in Ewan Clayton is Professor in Design Nineteenth-Century Literature at at the University of Sunderland. the University of Sheffield, with a For twelve years he worked as a particular interest in the tattoo in consultant to Xerox PARC, the literature. The front cover features an research lab in California that original illustration by tattoo artist developed much of today’s digital Luca Ortis. technology. 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, has been translated into a number of languages.

34 New Titles – Tales of the Weird Current Exhibition Books 35 Leonardo: A Mind in Motion The Globetrotter Alice’s Adventures Victorian Excursions in Edited by Juliana Barone Under Ground India, China and Japan The Original Manuscript Amy Miller Written by leading Leonardo experts from across Europe, and accompanying a major British Library exhibition, this fascinating new book reveals the central importance of motion in Leonardo’s art and thought. Includes large-scale reproductions of Leonardo’s handwritten LEONARDO notes from Codex Arundel and Codex DA VINCI Leicester, alongside other manuscripts A Mind in Motion and paintings. NEW EDITION

In the mid-nineteenth century, In this facsimile of Dodgson’s Edited by globetrotters – leisure tourists manuscript – now one of the Juliana Barone seeking authentic cultural British Library’s most treasured experiences – flocked to India, possessions – modern readers can Hardback £20 China and Japan. Much like the enjoy the expressive script and ISBN 978 0 7123 5283 3 set up by the travellers wild imaginings of Alice’s story 224 pages, 255 x 195 mm on their return, The Globetrotter as it was first told. 70 colour illustrations is itself a curation of encounters, Published June 2019 lavishly illustrated throughout Hardback with jacket £14.99 Juliana Barone is Associate Research with reproductions of early, ISBN 978 0 7123 5243 7 128 pages, 187 x 124 mm Fellow in the Department of History hand-coloured photography. 42 colour illustrations of Art at Birkbeck College, London. Published April 2019 Her doctoral thesis at Oxford Hardback £30 University was on Leonardo da ISBN 978 0 7123 5258 1 Vinci and his study and interpretation 256 pages, 240 x 165 mm of motion. Over 100 colour illustrations Published May 2019

36 Current Exhibition Books Recent Highlights 37 Playing Jane Austen The Philosophy of Wine Cats in Medieval The Old Man’s Guide to Parlour Plays for Drawing-Room Ruth Ball Manuscripts Health and Longer Life Performance Kathleen Walker-Meikle John Hill Rosina Filippi

NEW NEW EDITION EDITION

Playing Jane Austen is the A companion volume to The Featuring an array of fascinating A lifestyle guide to longevity and original dramatisation of Jane Philosophy of ... and illustrations from the British good health – from 1750. Full of Austen’s work. The collection Coffee, this witty history of wine Library’s rich medieval collection, genuinely good advice, the book was first published in 1895 by – its cultivation and enjoyment – Cats in Medieval Manuscripts offers sage insights as well as Victorian feminist and actor sheds light on the rich traditions includes anecdotes about cats – ridiculous regimes – making it Rosina Filippi. of wine from around the world. both real and imaginary – to a perfect gift for a man of more provide a fascinating picture of the mature years. Hardback £9.99 Hardback £9.99 life of the cat and its relationship ISBN 978 0 7123 5223 9 ISBN 978 0 7123 5278 9 with humans in the medieval world. Hardback £7.99 160 pages, 178 x 111 mm 112 pages, 200 x 130 mm ISBN 978 0 7123 5292 5 10 illustrations 25 illustrations 80 pages, 163 x 100 Hardback with jacket £12.99 Published February 2019 Published May 2019 Published June 2019 ISBN 978 0 7123 5293 2 96 pages, 190 x 150 mm Over 100 colour illustrations Published March 2019

38 Recent Highlights Recent Highlights 39 BRITISH LIBRARY CRIME CLASSICS

Smallbone Death in Captivity Death Has The Division The Pocket The Arsenal Deceased A Second World Deep Roots Bell Mystery Detective Stadium Mystery A London Mystery War Mystery A Second World Ellen Wilkinson 100+ Puzzles Leonard Gribble Michael Gilbert War Mystery Compiled by Michael Gilbert Kate Jackson

Paperback £8.99 Paperback £8.99 Paperback £8.99 Paperback £8.99 Flexibound £7.99 Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5297 0 ISBN 978 0 7123 5213 0 ISBN 978 0 7123 5228 4 ISBN 978 0 7123 5241 3 ISBN 978 0 7123 5296 3 ISBN 978 0 7123 5226 0 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm 304 pages, 190 x 130 mm 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm 256 pages, 190 x 130 mm 144 pages, 155 x 100 mm 256 pages, 190 x 130 mm

Surfeit of Murder in Deep Waters The Story of The Belting The Colour Suspects the Mill-Race Murder on Classic Crime Inheritance of Murder George Bellairs A Devon Mystery the Waves in 100 Books Julian Symons E C R Lorac Edited by Martin Edwards Martin Edwards

Paperback £8.99 Paperback £8.99 Paperback £8.99 Paperback £14.99 Paperback £8.99 Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5238 3 ISBN 978 0 7123 5268 0 ISBN 978 0 7123 5288 8 ISBN 978 0 7123 5221 5 ISBN 978 0 7123 5232 1 ISBN 978 0 7123 5227 7 256 pages, 190 x 130 mm 256 pages, 190 x 130 mm 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm Hardback £25 240 pages, 190 x 130 mm 256 pages, 190 x 130 mm ISBN 978 0 7123 5696 1 304 pages, 210 x 148 mm

40 Crime Classics Crime Classics 41 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

42 Crime Classics Crime Classics 43 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

44 Crime Classics Crime Classics 45 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

46 Crime Classics Crime Classics 47 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 Edited by Martin Edwards Edited by Martin Edwards Edited by Martin Edwards Edited by Martin Edwards Edited by Martin Edwards 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 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

48 Crime Classics Crime Classics 49 Antidote to The Hog’s A Scream in Soho Murder in The Female The Notting Venom Back Mystery John G Brandon Detective Hill Mystery 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

50 Crime Classics Crime Classics 51 BRITISH LIBRARY SCIENCE FICTION CLASSICS

The Tide Went Out The Darkest of Nights Four-Sided Triangle Shoot at the Moon Charles Eric Maine Charles Eric Maine William F Temple William F Temple

Paperback £8.99 Paperback £8.99 Paperback £8.99 Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5237 6 ISBN 978 0 7123 5218 5 ISBN 978 0 7123 5231 4 ISBN 978 0 7123 5256 7 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm 256 pages, 190 x 130 mm 304 pages, 190 x 130 mm 240 pages, 190 x 130 mm

Menace of The End of the World Moonrise Lost Mars the Machine and Other Catastrophes The Golden Age The Golden Age Edited by Mike Ashley Edited by Mike Ashley of Lunar Adventures of the Red Planet Edited and introduced Edited and introduced by Mike Ashley by Mike Ashley

Paperback £8.99 Paperback £8.99 Paperback £8.99 Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5242 0 ISBN 978 0 7123 5273 4 ISBN 978 0 7123 5275 8 ISBN 978 0 7123 5240 6 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm 352 pages, 190 x 130 mm 304 pages, 190 x 130 mm

52 Science Fiction Classics Science Fiction Classics 53 BRITISH LIBRARY TALES OF THE WEIRD

The Platform Edge Doorway to Dilemma From the Depths Haunted Houses Glimpses of Uncanny Tales of the Railways Bewildering Tales of Dark Fantasy and Other Strange Two Novels by the Unknown Edited by Mike Ashley Edited by Mike Ashley Tales of the Sea Charlotte Riddell Lost Ghost Stories Edited by Mike Ashley Edited by Andrew Smith Edited by Mike Ashley

Paperback £8.99 Paperback £8.99 Paperback £8.99 Paperback £8.99 Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5203 1 ISBN 978 0 7123 5263 5 ISBN 978 0 7123 5236 9 ISBN 978 0 7123 5251 2 ISBN 978 0 7123 5266 6 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm 320 pages, 190 x 130 mm 354 pages, 190 x 130 mm 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm

The Weird Tales of The Face in the Glass Mortal Echoes Spirits of the Season William Hope Hodgson The Gothic Tales of Encounters Christmas Hauntings Edited by Xavier Aldana Reyes Mary Elizabeth Braddon with the End Edited by Tanya Kirk Edited by Greg Buzwell Edited by Greg Buzwell

Paperback £8.99 Paperback £8.99 Paperback £8.99 Paperback £8.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5233 8 ISBN 978 0 7123 5208 6 ISBN 978 0 7123 5281 9 ISBN 978 0 7123 5252 9 256 pages, 190 x 130 mm 272 pages, 190 x 130 mm 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm 288 pages, 190 x 130 mm

54 Tales of the Weird Tales of the Weird 55 BRITISH LIBRARY CLASSIC THRILLERS BRITISH LIBRARY CHILDREN’S BOOKS

Passage of Arms A Kind of Anger The Light of Day My Book of Stories My Book of Stories My Book of Stories Eric Ambler Eric Ambler Write Your Own Write Your Own Write Your Own Myths Adventure Stories Fairy Tales Deborah Patterson Deborah Patterson Deborah Patterson

Paperback £8.99 Paperback £8.99 Paperback £8.99 Paperback £9.99 Paperback £9.99 Paperback £9.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5655 8 ISBN 978 0 7123 5645 9 ISBN 978 0 7123 5650 3 ISBN 978 0 7123 5635 0 ISBN 978 0 7123 5642 8 ISBN 978 0 7123 5643 5 256 pages, 190 x 130 mm 256 pages, 190 x 130 mm 256 pages, 190 x 130 mm 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 The End of the Web The Last Best Friend Write Your Own Daring Adventurers in 80 Maps George Sims George Sims Shakespearean Tales From Clare Hibbert Deborah Patterson to Gertrude Bell Deborah Patterson

Paperback £7.99 Paperback £7.99 Paperback £9.99 Hardback £14.99 Hardback £14.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5682 4 ISBN 978 0 7123 5684 8 ISBN 978 0 7123 5634 3 ISBN 978 0 7123 5285 7 ISBN 978 0 7123 5693 0 96 pages, 200 x 170 mm 192 pages, 190 x 130 mm 192 pages, 190 x 130 mm 96 pages, 280 x 220 mm 96 pages, 280 x 220 mm

56 Classic Thrillers Children’sClassic ThrillersBooks 57 Art and Design History

The Art and History Buddhism Illuminated Graven Images The Paper Soho The Book of the of Manuscript Art from The Art of the Woodcut Hardback £25 Beyond the Establishment Dreams of Another London The Heart of Bohemian London British Library Hardback £25 Southeast Asia Hardback £12.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5743 2 Hardback £25 Paperback £10 Paperback £10 Paperback £10 ISBN 978 0 7123 5668 8 Hardback £50 ISBN 978 0 7123 5672 5 ISBN 978 0 7123 5837 8 ISBN 978 0 7123 5656 5 ISBN 978 0 7123 5694 7 ISBN 978 0 7123 5657 2 ISBN 978 0 7123 5206 2 Gift/Humour

Peonies and Pomegranates Writing Britain’s Ruins Astrology in Medieval Magic in Medieval Food Fights & A History of Children’s Books James Cook Medieval Monsters Botanic Illustrations from Asia Hardback £30 Manuscripts Manuscripts Culture Wars in 100 Books The Voyages Hardback £10 Hardback £14.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 0978 3 Hardback £12.99 Hardback £12.99 Hardback £20 Hardback £25 Hardback £40 ISBN 978 0 7123 5790 6 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 ISBN 978 0 7123 5295 6 Paperback £25 ISBN 978 0 7123 5290 1

A Book of Book Lists Shelf Life The Cocktail Book The Gentleman’s Art of Picturing India Rough Spirits and High Society Russian Revolution: Warfare in Medieval A Bibliophile’s Compendium Writers on Books and Reading Hardback £8.99 Dressing with Economy Hardback £30 The Culture of Drink Hope, Tragedy, Myths Manuscripts Paperback £7.99 Flexibound £10 ISBN 978 0 7123 5690 9 Hardback £7.95 ISBN 978 0 7123 5695 4 Hardback £20 Hardback £40 Hardback £12.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5225 3 ISBN 978 0 7123 5286 4 ISBN 978 0 7123 5886 6 ISBN 978 0 7123 5215 4 ISBN 978 0 7123 5677 0 ISBN 978 0 7123 5605 3

Literature

The Whole The Philosophy of Beards The Philosophy of Coffee A Literary Christmas Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms Medieval Illumination Taking to the Air Decadence Art of Dress Hardback £7.99 Brian Williams An Anthology Hardback £40 Manuscript Art in England An Illustrated History of Flight A Literary Anthology Hardback £10 ISBN 978 0 7123 5766 1 Hardback £9.99 Hardback with jacket £12.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5202 4 and France 700–1200 Hardback £25 Hardback £20 ISBN 978 0 7123 5271 0 ISBN 978 0 7123 5230 7 ISBN 978 0 7123 5276 5 Paperback £25 Paperback £10 ISBN 978 0 7123 5261 1 ISBN 978 0 7123 5663 3 ISBN 978 0 7123 5207 9 ISBN 978 0 7123 5212 3

58 Selected Backlist Selected Backlist 59 Audio

British Bird Sounds The Ghost Stories of The Haunted Library Lost in a Pyramid Horror: A Literary History Sea Monsters on Medieval Atlas A History of America Two CDs £16 inc. VAT M R James Paperback £8.99 Paperback £8.99 Hardback £20 and Maps A World of Maps in 100 Maps ISBN 978 0 7123 0512 9 Hardback £12.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5604 6 ISBN 978 0 7123 5617 6 ISBN 978 0 7123 5608 4 Paperback £14.99 from the British Library Hardback £30 ISBN 978 0 7123 5205 5 ISBN 978 0 7123 5771 5 Hardback £30 ISBN 978 0 7123 5217 8 ISBN 978 0 7123 5291 8

Out of the Deep And Science Fiction The Tell-Tale Heart and The Writer Abroad Other Supernatural Tales A Literary History Other Tales Paperback £12.99 Paperback £8.99 Hardback £20 Hardback £12.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5787 6 ISBN 978 0 7123 5675 6 ISBN 978 0 7123 5692 3 ISBN 978 0 7123 5754 8

Maps

Holmes & Watson The Gothic Tales of H P Charting the Oceans A History of the 20th A Miscellany Lovecraft Paperback £14.99 Century in 100 Maps Hardback £10 Hardback £14.99 ISBN 978 0 7123 5616 9 Hardback £25 ISBN 978 0 7123 5216 1 ISBN 978 0 7123 5246 8 ISBN 978 0 7123 5856 9

London: A History in Maps Hardback £30 ISBN 978 0 7123 5879 8 London: A Life in Maps Mapping the Heavens Maps and the 20th Paperback £14.99 Hardback £14.99 Century: Drawing the Line ISBN 978 0 7123 5607 7 ISBN 978 0 7123 5265 9 Hardback £40 ISBN 978 0 7123 5662 6

60 Selected Backlist Selected Backlist 61 As seen in The Guardian, Town and An Economist Book of the Year 2018 As featured in 1943 (Economist), Country and Monocle24 Radio As featured on Dan Snow’s History National Geographic Traveller and The subject of two sold-out events Hit podcast Monocle24 Radio at the British Library

Tom Harper promises ‘an atlas with a This is one of those rare books that’s For many, flight has become a difference’ and he does not disappoint … both visually arresting and intellectually mundane, even actively unpleasant [his] selections are wonderful … pick this enriching. With each map profile experience … The great joy of this book up at dawn and you won’t be able essentially self-contained, the book book is to be reminded what a to put it down until dusk. is perfect for dipping into, each new romantic idea it is. Geographical ‘episode’ opening a window on a different Telegraph facet of American history and eventually This feel[s] almost like a map of building into an story of the rise of A lavish of flight’s time travel. one of the world’s most powerful nations. cultural impact, full of bizarre National Geographic Traveller Geographical and unexpected objects. Times Higher Education Harper’s text is a treasury of information. A History of America in 100 Maps is a Art Quarterly brilliant rebuttal to the myth of ‘manifest An erudite text accompanies the destiny’, replacing the idea of a single wonderful drawings, designs, This is an essential compendium for historical narrative with something prints, posters and photos. anyone who loves images, stories and messier and more true: the sheer CARA magazine (AerLingus) history … gorgeous and heavy with contingency of events that might easily generous full-colour illustrations. have gone another way. Vicarious flying at its finest. The Island Review Economist The Lady

Her sparky text is full of grisly/ delightful anecdotes. World of Interiors

It presents this epic adventure through the eyes of the public looking up … Miss Ford’s compelling flying circus brings us down to ground. Country Life

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