Society

How to Build a Time Machine by Paul Davies The Penguin Press, £9.99, ISBN 0713995831 Like “The Tale of Peter Rabbit” with a bodice-ripping cover, this little...

A Magick Life: The Life of Aleister Crowley by Martin Booth Coronet Books, £8.99, ISBN 0340718064 If you believe in magic as much as in little green...

Fairies in Nineteenth-century Art and Literature (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-century Literature & Culture) by Nicola Bown Cambridge University Press, £40, ISBN 0521793157 Victorians were fascinated by fairies....

A User's Guide to the Brain by John Ratey Little, Brown, £12.99, ISBN 0316854069 The author of this 400+ pages book is clinical professor at Harvard Medical...

Snake Oil and Other Preoccupations by John Diamond Vintage, £7.99, ISBN 0099428334 Because the medium through which most people knew John Diamond was his Times column, in...

Inventing the Victorians by Matthew Sweet Faber and Faber, £16.99, ISBN 0571206581 Opium, sex crime and serial killers aren’t usually the first things that spring to mind...

Final Seance: The Strange Friendship Between Houdini and Conan Doyle by Massimo Polidoro Prometheus Books, £21.99, ISBN 1573928968 In 1932 Ernst and Carrington wrote Houdini and Conan...

The Dream Drugstore: Chemically Altered States of Consciousness by J Allan Hobson MIT Press, £19.50, ISBN 0262082934 The title of this book is a reference to the...