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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Captivated Captivated Piers Dudgeon "Captivated is a true story of genius and possession at a crossroads in time, when the late nineteenth-century world of the occult and the psychic arts gave way to the new science of psychology." "Th… OL21412733W
Tobias Smollett Tobias Smollett Jeremy Lewis Tobias Smollett was a prodigious wordsmith. Grub Street was his habitat and hack work his staple, but, as Jeremy Lewis vividly makes clear in this biography, the first for nearly sixty years, there w… OL2425305W
Clap hands for the singing molecatcher Clap hands for the singing molecatcher Roderick Grant Clap Hands for the Singing Molecatcher is both hilarious and deeply moving in its splendid account of the writer's childhood on a remote country estate in Morayshire in the 1940s and 1950s; a place w… OL3137129W
Mrs Oliphant, "a fiction to herself" Mrs Oliphant, "a fiction to herself" Elisabeth Jay x, 355 p., [8] p. of plates : 24 cm OL3458360W