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The Book of Phobias and Manias: A History of the World in 99 Obsessions by KATE SUMMERSCALE
$29.99 AUD
Category: History
A thrilling compendium of our deepest fears and obsessions by the bestselling author of The Suspicions of Mr Whicher. Ever been struck dumb when speaking in public? You might be suffering from glossophobia. Do your book-buying habits verge on bibliomania? Do you recoil in arachnophobic horror at the si ...Show more
The Haunting of Alma Fielding: A True Ghost Story by Kate Summerscale
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'A page-turner with the authority of history' PHILIPPA GREGORY'As gripping as a novel. An engaging, unsettling, deeply satisfying read' SARAH WATERSLondon, 1938. Alma Fielding, an ordinary young woman, begins to experience supernatural events in her suburban home. Nandor Fodor - a Jewish-Hungarian refug ...Show more
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: Bloomsbury Modern Classics by Kate Summerscale
$17.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
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The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher or the Murder at Road Hill House by Kate Summerscale
$19.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
It is a summer's night in 1860. In an elegant detached Georgian house in the village of Road, Wiltshire, all is quiet. Behind shuttered windows the Kent family lies sound asleep. At some point after midnight a dog barks. The family wakes the next morning to a horrific discovery: an unimaginably gruesome ...Show more
The Wicked Boy: The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer by Kate Summerscale
$27.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Early in the morning of Monday 8 July 1895, thirteen-year-old Robert Coombes and his twelve-year-old brother Nattie set out from their small, yellow-brick terraced house in East London to watch a cricket match at Lord's. Their father had gone to sea the previous Friday, the boys told their neighbours, a ...Show more
Wicked Boy: The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer: The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer by Kate Summerscale
$19.98 AUD
Category: True Crime
The gripping, fascinating account of a shocking murder case that sent late Victorian Britain into a frenzy, by the number one bestselling, multi-award-winning author of The Suspicions of Mr Whicher 'Her research is needle-sharp and her period detail richly atmospheric, but what is most heartening about ...Show more
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