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Australian Book Retailer of the Year 2021
Kate Summerscale
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE
‘A page-turner with the authority of history’ PHILIPPA GREGORY ‘As gripping as a novel. An engaging, unsettling, deeply satisfying read’ SARAH WATERS
London…
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The fascinating story of a famous Victorian murder case - and the notorious detective who solved it.
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The national bestseller, now in paperback. In June of 1860 three-year-old Saville Kent was found at the bottom of an outdoor privy with his throat slit. The crime horrified all…
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A thrilling compendium of our deepest fears and obsessions by the bestselling author of The Suspicions of Mr Whicher.
London, 1938. Alma Fielding, an ordinary young woman, begins to experience supernatural events in her suburban home.
From the number one bestselling, multi-award-winning author of The Suspicions of Mr Whicher comes a brand new true story of Victorian scandal
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First published in Great Britain by Bloomsbury Publishing, 2016. First published in the United States of America by Penguin Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2016 –Copyright page.
"The Book of Phobias and Manias is a thrilling compendium of 99 obsessions that have shaped us all, the rare and the familiar, from ablutophobia (a horror of washing) to…
First published in Great Britain by Bloomsbury Publishing.
The extraordinary stroy of ‘Joe’ Carstairs, the fastest woman on water The Sunday Times bestseller
Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR * The Sunday Times * The New Statesman * The Times * The Spectator * The Telegraph
Shortlisted for the 2020…
The fascinating story of a famous Victorian murder case - and the notorious detective who solved it
THE PERFECT GIFT FOR ALL BIBLIOMANIACS
A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES, SPECTATOR AND DAILY MAIL
A WATERSTONES BEST POPULAR SCIENCE BOOK
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A stage adaptation of Kate Summerscale's bestselling non-fiction thriller, about the investigation of a Victorian country house murder.
In June of 1860 three-year-old Saville Kent was found at the bottom of an outdoor privy with his throat slit. The crime horrified all England and led to a national…
Early in the morning of Monday 8 July 1895, 13-year-old Robert Coombes and his 12-year-old brother Nattie set out from their small, yellow-brick terraced house in East London to watch…
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