This catalogue identifies and describes the Armenian manuscripts in the British Library's collections acquired since 1913, as well as 13 other un-catalogued collections in libraries and museums in the UK such as the Bodleian and John Rylands. The introduction provides a short history of each of the [...]

___________The original, magical story with a brand new cover from Quentin Blake! October 2018 marks 30 years since Matilda was published! This brand new jacket comes with a never-before-seen illustration of Matilda as the Chief Executive of the British Library - one of the careers that Quentin Blak[...]

This new CD from British Library Publishing contains recordings from the BBC archives spanning nearly thirty years. On it, the author discusses many diverse topics, including the causes of war and the effects of drug-taking on the writing process, and talks about his novels "Brave New World" and "Is[...]

Eerie screams, quiet snufflings, and snippets of song are just some of the wildlife sounds that can be heard after dark. While some animals turn in for the night, others are getting ready to begin their "day" and for some species, such as the Red Fox, Badger, Tawny Owl and Nightjar, the period from [...]

Printing is generally held to be one of the most important inventions of all time and to have helped change the course of history. It can be described as a means of giving form to and multiplying graphic signs and messages, and its extraordinary social, artistic and intellectual impact derives from [...]

The Scale of Perfection is the major work of the late fourteenth-century contemplative writer, Walter Hilton, an Augustinian canon, presumed to have studied canon law at Cambridge before renouncing a promising legal career in order to become a recluse. He gave up the solitary religious life to enter[...]

'As pretty a piece of work as Inspector French has done On the level of Mr Crofts very best; which is saying something. Daily Telegraph Dr James Earle and his wife live in comfortable seclusion near the Hog s Back, a ridge in the North Downs in the beautiful Surrey countryside. When Dr Earle disappe[...]

Jefferson Farjeon is quite unsurpassed for creepy skill in mysterious adventures. Dorothy L. Sayers Richard Temperley arrives at Euston station early on a fogbound London morning. He takes refuge in a nearby hotel, along with a disagreeable fellow passenger, who had snored his way through the train [...]

When a counterfeit currency racket comes to light on the French Riviera, Detective Inspector Meredith is sent speeding southwards out of the London murk to the warmth and glitter of the Mediterranean. Along with Inspector Blampignon an amiable policeman from Nice Meredith must trace the whereabouts [...]

On a dark November evening, Sir Wilfred Saxonby is travelling alone in the 5 o clock train from Cannon Street, in a locked compartment. The train slows and stops inside a tunnel; and by the time it emerges again minutes later, Sir Wilfred has been shot dead, his heart pierced by a single bullet. Sui[...]

It is a wet and windy night in the town of Gunnarshaw, on the edge of the Yorkshire moors. The body of young Jane Trundle, assistant in the chemist s shop, is discovered lying face down on the cobblestones. Sergeant Caleb Cluff is not a man of many words, and neither does he play by the rules. He ma[...]