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Australian Book Retailer of the Year 2021
Kate Summerscale
FROM BRITAIN'S TOP-SELLING TRUE CRIME WRITER AND THE #1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE SUSPICIONS OF MR WHICHER...
'Once more, Kate Summerscale shatters our preconceptions of a classic crime' Val McDermid
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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
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From the Edgar Award-winning author of The Haunting of Alma Fielding, the tale of two journalists competing to solve the notorious Christie murders in postwar London
In March 1953, London…
The UK's top-selling true crime writer and author of the #1 bestselling The Suspicions of Mr Whicher takes on the notorious murders at 10 Rillington Place
London, 1938. Alma Fielding, an ordinary young woman, begins to experience supernatural events in her suburban home.
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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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The fascinating story of a famous Victorian murder case - and the notorious detective who solved it.
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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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 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, 2016. First published in the United States of America by Penguin Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, 2016 –Copyright page.
The fascinating story of a famous Victorian murder case - and the notorious detective who solved it
First published in Great Britain by Bloomsbury Publishing.
A thrilling compendium of our deepest fears and obsessions by the bestselling author of The Suspicions of Mr Whicher.
A captivating A-Z compendium of our fixations by the bestselling author of The Suspicions of Mr Whicher
The extraordinary stroy of ‘Joe’ Carstairs, the fastest woman on water The Sunday Times bestseller
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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A stage adaptation of Kate Summerscale's bestselling non-fiction thriller, about the investigation of a Victorian country house murder.
