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Help us solve the mystery and find our missing book!

Pre-Order Agatha Christie: A World of Mystery now in time for the British Library's major exhibition. Available to pre-order this October.

#agathachrstie #murderontheorientexpress #newbook #goldenageofcrime by @bl_publishing

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Perfume is intoxicating: a wearable scent journey, a cultural touchpoint, a piece of art and design and a deep expression of individuality. Perfumes have defined what an era’s luxury, femininity, and allure smell like, while even a lingering scent of someone’s signature perfume can be enough to send our minds reeling back through our memories.

In The Philosophy of Perfume, fragrance writer and journalist, Alice du Parch, takes us on an journey through the world of perfume. The book includes chapters on perfume’s history, the figures who have acted as perfume’s great muses, the psychology of scent, the obsessive search for ever-rarer ingredients, notes on dissecting scents, the most iconic bottle designs and how to find your perfect scent.

Out now.

#newbook #nonfictionreads #britishlibrary by @bl_publishing

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There are just a few days to go till Christmas in a snowy upstate New York and Dr. Hugh Westlake is looking forward to enjoying the festive season with his daughter. His greatest worry is how to find all the items on her Christmas list when a young woman, Norma Hale, arrives at his surgery, asking for sleeping pills and telling him she’s being stalked by a yellow New York City taxi – the same car that drove two of her friends to their deaths.

Though Westlake initially dismisses Norma’s fears as fantasy, he changes his mind when he sees the cab for himself, and decides to get to the bottom of the situation. But has he accepted a poisoned chalice? Up at the Hale’s family seat the deaths start to mount up: someone is strangled by fairy lights strung between two Christmas trees, another is left for dead in the snow… Can Westlake unravel the secrets of the past in time to stop a killer carrying out their ruthless plan?

Call a Hearse is now available online and in-store.

#crimeficition #christmasbook #christmasread #crimeclassics #britishlibrary by @bl_publishing

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🗺️ A History of Roads in 100 Maps is available online and in-store today 🗺️

Taking as its principal research source one of the world’s greatest historical map collections at the British Library, this volume transports you along pilgrim routes, across conqueror’s maps, along early Modern post-roads and via the beautiful cartography of Japan’s 1666 Tōkaidō map.

This book provides the first unique survey of the mapping of roads, exploring the development of these most essential of societies’ arteries.

🔗Click the product tag to shop now!

#newbook #nonfiction #maps #britishlibrarypublishing by @bl_publishing

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A child returns from the fire that consumed him on Guy Fawkes Night, two girls come face to face with an Aztec god in a graffiti-strewn underpass, malevolent witches stalk the streets of Liverpool and the fells of Cumbria, ancient folk rituals usher evil in to an English village… Welcome to the weird and unsettling world of Ramsey Campbell.

In this chilling new collection, spanning Campbell’s entire career from the mid-1970s to the present day, novelist, playwright and The League of Gentlemen alumnus Jeremy Dyson hand-picks his favourite tales by one of Britain’s greatest living horror writers.

Available now, online and in-store.

#horrorficition #newbooks #beautifulbooks #britishlibrary by @bl_publishing

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We've had an incredibly busy month here in publishing! 🍂📚

September has been a wonderfully varied month, with new books taking us from delicious yet devious crime to the antics of some very spooky cats!

Whether you're a crime aficionado, a word nerd, a vinyl enthusiast, a cat lover or already getting into the festive spirit, there's something for everyone in this month's roundup.

Which one will you be picking up? ✨

#BritishLibraryPublishing #NewBooks #BookRoundup #SeptemberBooks by @bl_publishing

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In 2018, the British Library staged a landmark exhibition, the largest ever to deal exclusively with Anglo-Saxon England. Presenting over 180 objects, the exhibition and its book were a critical and commercial success and led the way for a cultural re-appraisal of Anglo-Saxon culture. This expanded edition of the bestselling exhibition book includes new retrospective material on the influence of this exhibition and subsequent discoveries in the field. The Anglo-Saxon period stretches from the arrival of Germanic groups on British shores in the early 5th century to the Norman Conquest of 1066.

During these centuries, the English language was used and written down for the first time, pagan populations were converted to Christianity, and the foundations of the kingdom of England were laid. This richly illustrated book presents Anglo-Saxon England as the home of a sophisticated artistic and political culture, deeply connected with its continental neighbours. Leading specialists in early medieval history, literature and culture engage with the unique, original evidence from which we can piece together the story of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms.

#nonficitonreads #beautifulbooks #history #britishlibrary by @bl_publishing

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We may have found the perfect word to describe Richard E. Grant's Traitors blunder.

To discover more wonderfully wacky words, grab a copy of Hotcockles and Twittletwattle, available now online and in-store

#Traitors #RichardEGrant #britishlibrary by @bl_publishing

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Spooky Season is back and so is our Tales of the Weird festival! Join some of our finest writers and connoisseurs of the weird and gather in the Autumnal gloom for a day of conversations, readings and more.

Hosted by writer and comedian Robin Ince, the day takes in a celebration of the creator of Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake; horror supremo Ramsey Campbell in conversation with Jeremy Dyson; the art of uncanny tale telling with Lucie McKnight Hardie, Oyinkan Braithwaite, Sarah Clegg and Sam Leith; and the art of creating haunted audio with duo behind the Broken Veil podcast sensation, Will Maclean and Joel Morris. We end with some classic storytelling from the British Library’s Tales of the Weird series with special guest readers.

🕖 Saturday 31 October 11:00 – 18:30
📍Pigott Theatre, British Library, London

Tickets available through the link in our bio! 🎃 by @bl_publishing

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Seeing Emily Brontë’s handwriting was really rather magical🤩 How stunning is the new facsimile from the British Library… any of you already got your hands on a copy?🫶 |AD by @bl_publishing

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Have you ever loaned a bedpresser (a heavy lazy fellow) a muckender (handkerchief)? Or felt your mind skimble-skamble (wander) in the company of an abecedarian (one who teaches the alphabet)? This book might be for you...

Elizabeth Drury has skillfully combed through Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language to compile a new dictionary of forgotten, curious, hilarious and – occasionally – quite useful words.

Hotcockles and Twittletwattle is available now online and in-store.

#samueljohnson #dictionary #blpublishing by @bl_publishing

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Drawing on 125 works of vintage crime, acclaimed author and editor Martin Edwards @medwardsbooks tells the story of how crime developed as a literary genre in Britain during the first half of the 20th century.

Perfect for classic crime lovers, this book is the ultimate guide to vintage mysteries.

The Classic Crime Companion is available now online and in-store.

#classiccrime #crimefiction #detectivestories by @bl_publishing

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