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29/10/2026

Take a look inside A History of Roads in 100 Maps 🗺️

This book explores the early maps of Automobile Clubs, heralding the dramatic revolution motorised transport brought to roads, and concludes with a similarly seismic shift, a century later, as the birth of the information superhighway reinvented the road map forever.

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28/10/2026

Missing your fix of between episodes? Fear not! Murder mysteries, whodunnits and accusations of treacherous behaviour await in our Crime Classics collection. With over 150 titles to choose from, there’s plenty to sink your teeth into!

Explore our Crime Classics and see if you can solve the mystery, online and in-store.

28/10/2026

This fascinating and amusing collection of the best words from Dr Johnson's famous dictionary that have (justly or unjustly) been forgotten, is available to buy now!

First published in two mighty volumes in 1755, Samuel Johnson’s A Dictionary of the English Language was the exhaustive result of seven years’ research culminating in the first true lexicon of the English language.

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22/10/2026

Happy Irish Book Week! 📚

To celebrate, journey through ancient history with new retellings of Irish myths and legends from Gerry Smyth. Illustrated from the British Library’s unparalleled collections, Tara of the Kings is a treasure-trove of the myths that shaped Ireland.

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21/10/2026

❄️Our new Christmas special edition of a Tales of the Weird favourite is now available to shop online and in-store today!❄️

This glittering new hardback clothbound edition Chill Tidings, edited by Tanya Kirk, celebrates the timeless tradition of cosying up during the cold winter nights whilst these dark tales send a chill down your spine. 🌬️

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20/10/2026

How much of a real classic crime expert are you? 🔍

This beautifully illustrated and painstakingly researched book will tax your grey cells to the limit with 50 quizzes made up of questions all about the writers, detectives and the victims from over 100 years of literature and on big and small screens. There are multiple-choice quizzes, picture rounds and enough bonus questions to keep even the most rabid reader and sofa sleuth challenged and entertained.

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15/10/2026

Journey through ancient history with new retelling of Irish myths and legends from Gerry Smyth.

From the island’s earliest invaders, the narrative progresses through Irish history to the final story of the death of King Brian Boru in 1014. Illustrated from the British Library’s unparalleled collections, Tara of the Kings is a treasure-trove of the myths that shaped Ireland.

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14/10/2026

Calling all Crime Classics fans! 🔍

We're delighted to share that the special edition hardback of The Santa Klaus Murder: A Christmas Crime Story is now available to shop online and in-store. First published in 1936, this classic country-house mystery has enjoyed renewed success as part of the British Library Crime Classics series, making this cosy whodunnit the perfect Christmas gift for any lover of ingenious puzzles. 🎁

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13/10/2026

Have you been enjoying The Classic Crime Companion by acclaimed author and editor Martin Edwards?

This brand-new guide is a much-expanded, revised and updated edition of The Story of Classic Crime in 100 Books – winner of the Macavity award from Mystery Readers International for best book about the crime genre and shortlisted for four other awards in Britain and the US.

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08/10/2026

🗺️ 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.

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