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How to Win Every Argument: The Use and Abuse of Logic by Madsen Pirie Continuum, £8.99 (pb), ISBN 878-0-8264-9894-6 A catalogue of those hardy perennials of human...

The Ghost Hunters by Deborah Blum Arrow Books, £8.99 (pb), ISBN 978-0099469346 In 1848, in Hydesville, New York, two sisters, Kate and Margaret Fox, began ‘communicating’ with...

Quirkology: The Curious Science of Everyday Lives by Richard Wiseman Pan Macmillan, £9.99, ISBN 978-0-230-70215-8 In this eminently readable survey, Wiseman introduces the general reader to a...

Nick Pope: The Man Who Left the Mod (REGION 1) (NTSC) directed by Philip Gardiner Reality Films, £27.99, EAN 883629172309 If you really expect anything to be...

The Psychic Handbook: Discover and Enhance Your Hidden Psychic Powers by Craig & Jane Hamilton Parker Vermilion, £10.99, ISBN 978-0091790868 Do you finish people’s sentences for them?...

Who Shot JFK? by Robin Ramsay Pocket Essentials, £9.99, ISBN 978-1-84243-232-7 Readers of The Skeptic may feel they have had enough of the Kennedy assassination, but here...

From the archives, Benjamin Radford recounts the story of his search for Cressie, a monster that never was

Jon Cohen remembers the highlights and the stories from the evening which featured James Randi's first presentation to a UK audience in over a decade, and Susan Blackmore's talk of returning to public scepticism and parapsychology.