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Snake Oil and Other Preoccupations

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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...
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Inventing the Victorians

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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...
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Final Séance: The Strange Friendship between Houdini and Conan Doyle

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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...
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The Dream Drugstore: Chemically Altered States of Consciousness

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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...
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The Mummy Congress: Science, Obsession and the Everlasting Dead

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The Mummy Congress: Science, Obsession and the Everlasting Dead by Heather Pringle 4th Estate, £15.99, ISBN 1841151114 Among the theatrical attractions of 1830s Britain was “mummy unrolling”....
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The Encyclopedia of Magic and Witchcraft

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The Encyclopedia of Magic and Witchcraft: An Historical Exploration into the World of the Magician by Susan Greenwood Little Brown, £17.95, ISBN 0754805816 This is a beautiful...
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Annie’s Box: Charles Darwin, his Daughter and Human Evolution

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Annie's Box: Charles Darwin, His Daughter and Human Evolution by Randal Keynes 4th Estate, £16.99, ISBN 1841150606 On 23 April 1851 Charles Darwin’s beloved ten-yearold daughter Annie...
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The Hunt For Zero Point

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Hunt for Zero Point by Nick Cook Century, £17.99, ISBN 0712669531 I walked into the bookshop, my eyes glanced from side to side and then I saw...
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