Murky Victorian London. Thirteen-year-old Lizzie Blaylock has done her best to fill her absconding mother's shoes, but her father is lazy and feckless, and her little sister is riddled with tuberculosis. When Lizzie has a fit at school, for which she is expelled, she and those around her slowly begin to realize that she may have special powers…powers to communicate with the dead.'Please!' Miss Otis wailed. 'Please! For the love of God, step back!'And suddenly the man did. A ...

Originally conceived as a blog to accompany Gallagher's Victorian novels, and freely available to read online, this guide provides a great introduction to the fascinating phenomenon of 19th Century spiritualism. If you can't tell your materializations from your Mumlers, or never realized just how physical ghost-grabbing could get, then this may well be the perfect book for you.

"If you love Sherlock Holmes, you'll love this book…the best account of Baker Street mania ever written."—Michael Dirda, The Washington PostWinner of the Agatha Award for best nonfiction workEdgar Award finalist for best critical/biographical workAnthony Award finalist for best critical/nonfiction workEveryone knows Sherlock Holmes. But what made this fictional character, dreamed up by a small-town English doc...

A New York Times Notable Book: "A loving testament to the enduring ability of Shakespeare's play to connect in myriad ways across countries and cultures" ( Pop Matters).For the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth, the Globe Theatre undertook an unparalleled journey: to take Hamlet to every country on the planet, to share this beloved play with the entire world. The tour was the brainchild of Dominic Dromgoole, artistic director of the Globe, ...

With the business of the Moonstone diamond finally laid to rest, Mr. Franklin Blake and his wife Rachel are now happily married, living in London, and blessed with a healthy baby daughter named Julia. Mr. Blake has taken his late father's seat in Parliament, and his party's fortunes are on the rise—in fact they are about to overthrow the coalition government of the day.But then the inexplicable occurs. Miss Rachel and her elderly aunt are attacked in the street by...

THE ORIGIN OF OUR SPECIES IS NOT WHAT WE THOUGHT BUT WILL BE REVEALED IN THIS EPISODIC QUEST FULL OF CLIFFHANGERS, ANCIENT MYTHOLOGY, GENETIC ENGINEERING AND ADVENTURE.Human life on a future earth is threatened with genetically engineered extinction and myths buried for millennia may yet prove to be humanity's only hope…Ancient Secrets. Cyborgs acting like Gods…mankind's last stand far in the future.Universe-wide, genetic farming weakens humanity and millions of oth...

Building on the success of previous editions, Politics in the Republic of Ireland continues to provide an authoritative introduction to all aspects of government and politics in this seventh edition.Written by some of the foremost experts on Irish politics, it explains, analyses and interprets the background to Irish government and contemporary political processes. It devotes chapters to every aspect of contemporary Irish government and politics, including the political pa...

Rory is born in poverty on a Caribbean island. To give him a chance at a good life, his parents send him to an aunt and uncle in Brooklyn. Rory's dream is to return and rescue his parents from the "hellish island". For sixteen years his dream drives him to excel in everything he does. He returns to the island, but he's too late. Heartbroken, Rory researches Irish history and discovers 50,000 Irish, including his ancestors, were sold into slavery in the seventeenth century and now only 400 ...

THE DEVIL'S WORK is an intriguing suspense/thriller that parallels current day events. It flirts with the thin line between fiction and reality, the real and the surreal, and makes you wonder about the agendas of banks, governments, and social media companies. The world is experiencing geological disasters, pandemics, drought, famine, and the rise of a powerful extremist group. As economies collapse, world leaders implement a single currency and rationing system to distribute the necessiti...

"I'm not going to let you go. It took longer than I'd bargained to get you unconscious. I'm planning to keep you here for a couple of years or so."When Isabel Eriksson wakes up she’s not sure where she is. She’s got a needle in her arm. Next to the bed a man is sitting and staring at her. He tells her that he intends to keep her locked up.Isabel realises that the only way for her to get out alive is to somehow make him release her and so a psychological game begins....

Gooseberry, the fourteen-year-old Victorian boy detective, is having his fair share of problems. Not only must he juggle the task of being Mr Bruff's newly-appointed chief investigator with the unwanted responsibility of managing London's entire criminal underclass, he also has to decide whether a drunken wretch of a man—who turns up on his doorstep claiming to be his father—is who he says he is.But when the leading actress dies in mysterious circumstances on stage during a performa...

Egypt, 1885. Theft and murder are afoot at an archaeological dig in the Valley of the Kings. Lizzie Blaylock, a young materializing medium of some renown, and her mentor, Miss Otis, thought they were there to vacation, especially as Lizzie has decided she wants nothing more to do with her powers. Her powers, however, have other things in mind.'Powers like yours expect to be used! Who knows what will happen if you choose to ignore them?'UK English editionCover photogr...