
The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime
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'We are a trading community, a commercial people. Murder is doubtless a very shocking offence,...

Zombies: A Cultural History
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The zombie has shuffled with dead-eyed, remorseless menace from its beginnings in obscure folklore...

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (Hercule Poirot #4)
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In the village of King's Abbot, a widow's sudden suicide sparks rumors that she murdered her first...

The New York Trilogy
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The New York Trilogy is perhaps the most astonishing work by one of America's most consistently...

Malory Towers Collection: Books 4-6
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For new girl Darrell Rivers, there are friends to be made, pranks to be played and fun to be had at...
Steve Backshall Annual 2018
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In this full colour, photographic, gift book fearless TV presenter, Steve Backshall, explores the...

Zahra's Paradise
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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Set in the aftermath of Iran's fraudulent elections of 2009, Zahra's...

Dostoevsky and the Epileptic Mode of Being
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For Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821-81), who lived with epileptic seizures for more than thirty years,...

Football and Literature in South America
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South America is a region that enjoys an unusually high profile as the origin of some of the world's...

Goethe's Families of the Heart
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Throughout his literary work Goethe portrays characters who defy and reject 18th and 19th century...