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July 1910: a gruesome discovery has been made at 39 Hilldrop Crescent, Camden. Buried in the cellar are the remains of Cora Crippen, former music-hall singer and wife of Dr Hawley Crippen. But Dr Crippen and his mistress Ethel Le Neve have disappeared, and a full-scale hunt for them has begun. Across the Channel in Antwerp, Captain Kendall gives...

Hugleikur Dagsson is the most famous cartoonist in Iceland. Iceland is very cold, very bleak and very expensive. The only things to do there are drink and kill whales. Dagssonrsquo;s last book ndash; Is This Supposed To Be Funny? ndash; was a cult international bestseller. He hopes you likes this one. Otherwise hersquo;ll have to kill some whales...

Mark and Benjamin Keen haven't seen their father, Christopher, for more than twenty years. He has only just begun to shed light on his life as a master spy when he is murdered in cold blood by an unidentified assassin. Was his death connected to his MI6 past? Had Christopher uncovered a dangerous conspiracy involving his eldest son? And what were...

Oscar Wilde's brilliant play makes fun of the English upper classes with light-hearted satire and dazzling humour. It is 1890's England and two young gentlemen are being somewhat limited with the truth. To inject some excitement into their lives, Mr Worthing invents a brother, Earnest, as an excuse to leave his dull country life behind him to...

Featuring dozens of color photographs from Darwin#8217;s original publication, this edition#8212;issued to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Darwin#8217;s birth#8212;makes this classic study newly accessible to modern readers. Published in 1872, The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals was a book at the very heart of Darwin#8217;s...

In a Norwegian glacier during the Second World War, a Nazi officer makes an extraordinary discovery - the most legendary ship of all time ...Sixty years later Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon - a top-secret, state-of-the-art military vessel disguised as a heap of junk - reap the terrible rewards of this find. In the Persian Gulf, they...