The fourth Michael Gilbert novel to join the series, after the perennial success of Smallbone Dec...

A forgotten book revived for the Crime Classics series for a new readership to enjoy. Described b...

A classic country-house Christmas murder mysterylight-hearted but with a clever mystery at its he...

Another of the series' popular anthologies celebrating forgotten classics and material not printe...

On a foggy night in London, a party has gathered in an artist's studio during the wartime blackou...

One of two crime novels written by famous children's author Nina Bawden showcasing her excellent ...

Two dead bodies and a Christmas stocking weaponised. A Postman murdered delivering cards on Chris...

The answer to any classic crime fiction fan's Christmas wish - and the only way for you to answer...

Tales from H. G. Wells, Frank R. Stockton, Lord Dunsany and more

Fearsome Fairies taps into the enormous fascination with fairies in the nineteenth and early twen...

What would you do if you found yourself in the world of the classic crime novel? How would you av...

Brooding in the borderlands where strange folklore, bizarre mythology and twentieth-century haunt...

Stories for Winter is a collection of short stories that take their inspiration from this cold, s...

Following in the tradition of the British Library Philosophy of ... series, this full-colour book...

First published in 1945, Loft's masterful storytelling manages to weave lighter comedic moments i...

In this specially commissioned anthology, sixty accomplished authors offer candid reflections on ...

A new special edition of Sunday Times bestseller from British Library Publishing's genre defining...

He looked up at the picture rail, and there was the hand holding on to a hook with three fingers,...

From the peaks of Eryri to dramatic coastlines, misty valleys and haunted mines, Wales is a land ...

The discovery of a beautiful Stradivarius violin in a hidden cupboard at Magdalen Hall, Oxford, a...

A new anthology of undeservedly neglected, previously unpublished or never republished short stor...

A new selection of stories focusing on the popular intersection of the cloth and criminal behavio...

Dearnley uses her expertise in folklore and ballads to tie together the weird short story heritag...

Most people think of fairy tales as stories intended for children, but this is a relatively recen...

The Spring House artfully balances humour and devastation; at once a deftly written psychological...

A wry, light-hearted Golden Age murder mystery set in a Cornish fishing village, this is the firs...

A British murder mystery with an American accent: all the elements of 1930s British detective fic...

This gripping story draws on superstition and the supernatural, hideously dysfunctional families ...

A time-slip story of identical crimes and punishments which take place across two different centu...

Sharing your home with an unwanted guest can be murder. Elderly Mrs. Rampage lives alone in a lar...

This new collection brings together several of Robert Westall's most chilling stories from long-f...

Dark tales of creepy cats by literary giants including Edgar Allen Poe, Bram Stoker and Joseph Sh...

A new collection of crime and mystery short stories based around food and drink by Golden Age gre...

Spurned lovers return from the grave to haunt theirpartners, ghost ships materialise on the sea, ...

A fiendish, twisty-turny serving of 'impossible crime' that sees the return of characters Kenwood...

The second volume in the new strand of Philosophy titles on music, The Philosophy of Vinyl celebr...

Written by award-winning crime writer and president of the Detection Club, Martin Edwards, this b...

In The Philosophy of Perfume, fragrance writer and journalist Alice du Parcq takes us on an opule...

A compendium of well-known and esoteric Irish mythology, retold and contextualized in an accessib...

Have you ever lent a bedpresser (a heavy lazy fellow) a muckender (handkerchief)? Or felt your mi...

Tales of the Weird takes a trip to the southern hemisphere for the first time to experience age-o...

In 2018, the British Library staged a landmark exhibition, the largest ever to deal exclusively w...

Building on the established success of the British Library's map books, two outstanding experts i...

Set in the Sologne region of central France, this evocative, atmospheric tale of the evil unleash...

A glittering hardback edition of the Christmas bestseller. With classic tales from Algernon Black...

British Library Publishing is teaming up with the London-based Punchdrunk theatre company - famou...

A collection of short stories from one of Britain's greatest living horror writers, selected by J...

The major form of travel throughout history has been roadways. And while humanity has traversed t...