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Book cover of Airing in a Closed Carriage by Joseph Shearing

Explore sensation and soiled reputation in this month's Crime Classic: Airing in a Closed Carriage.

Originally published in 1943 and based on the real murder trial of Florence Maybrick, read and determine for yourself - was she innocent or guilty? 🕵️

#crimeclassics #britishlibrary #mystery

Wish I was there! Will definitely be at the Agatha Christie exhibition at @britishlibrary.bsky.social later this year.

The British Library Publishing stand at London Book Fair 2026. Shelves of books 2 tables, 6 chairs & a filing cabinet.

We are at #LondonBookFair26 ! Find us at stand 2A71. We have many treasures in store…

Front cover: The Spoilt Kill, Mary Kelly. Illustrated with a painting of a pottery. A ‘BRITISH LIBRARY CRIME CLASSIC’

Finished this yesterday. A 1960s pottery in Stoke seems an unlikely setting for a crime novel, but it absolutely works. An air of Endeavour about it in the vivid settings and characters, and the weary, unloved, but sympathetic narrator

Thank you to @gpwigglesworth.bsky.social of @blpublishing.bsky.social for sending copies of The Black Fox by Gerald Heard and The New Flesh edited by Mark Morris

“It’s a very odd set-up.” #carolcarnac #thedoubleturn Timing is often all when it comes to reading, I find, and today’s book is a wonderful example of that. It arrived on the day I had finished reading the epic volume, “The Waste Land: A B…

On the blog today, another brilliant #CarolCarnac reissue from @blpublishing.bsky.social -such a clever and twisty one! @martinedwardsbooks.bsky.social kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2026/03/06/i...

If you've not read this yet - first published by @blpublishing.bsky.social back in 2017 but still very much in print - then I think you'll enjoy it for World Book Day today. A Book of Book Lists was my fourth book and marked the point where I felt this was the work path I wanted to take.

Something nasty on the bookshelf: my review of @tanyakirk.bsky.social's collection of stories about books and libraries for @blpublishing.bsky.social, ‘The Haunted Library’ drfrancisyoung.com/2026/03/04/s... 📚👻

Behind the bestseller: feuds, failures, and publishing mishaps - ABC listen Behind every great book lies a story — and sometimes, it’s a disaster. In When Books Go Bad, Alexander Johnson uncovers the scandalous mishaps that have shaped literary history. From bitter author feu...

I had a very jolly chat with the eminent David Marr on Australian radio's ABC Late Night Live slot yesterday about my latest book When Books Go Bad. You can hear me rambling on about feuds, fisticuffs and typos at www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

So Australia is enjoying a proper barage of me chatting about my latest book When Books Go Bad which has just been published there. Here I am talking to the Australian Writers' Centre about it and the mechanics of publishing and getting published in general www.writerscentre.com.au/blog/ep-706/

I’ve been very poor at sharing the most recent arrivals from the @blpublishing.bsky.social Tales of the Weird series but here are four excellent editions, newly roosted on the shelves!

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Nice write-up of my latest book When Books Go Bad in the Sydney Morning Herald www.smh.com.au/culture/book...

Tea on Sunday by Lettice Cooper While the British novelist and campaigner Lettice Cooper is probably best known for her literary novels, such as National Provincial (1938) and The New House (1936), both in print with Persephone B…

New on the blog today for #ReadIndies, I've written about TEA ON SUNDAY by Lettice Cooper.

A very enjoyable 'closed circle' style whodunnit in which an elderly woman is bumped off in the run-up to her tea party on Sunday afternoon. #BookSky 💙📚 #CrimeFiction

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A very early contender, but it will take a *lot* to beat “Possessed” as my book of the year.

Oh this is absolutely going on top of my precariously teetering emotional support #TBR pile. #booksky #horror #weird

Cover shows an old hag between a couple with her finger to her lips as to say “hush”

Possessed by Rosalie & Edward Synton (1927)

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Astonished this was lost for so long, this powerful gothic occult romance whipped along at pace, got progressively darker and more tragic, and kept me gripped right through to the climactic revelations

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Been really looking forward to this one . . .

Ooooh. I love the tales of the weird series!

Ooh, I do love a good shapeshifter story! 👀

Wow, 'The Girl on the Suicide Bridge' in the flesh in The New Flesh!

The front cover of The New Flesh

The back cover of The New Flesh

The contents of The New Flesh

Sneak preview! Next months Tales of the Weird is ‘The New Flesh: Tales of Shapeshifters & Strange Transformations’ Edited by the delightful Mark Morris & featuring a stunning list of authors including @johnnymains.co.uk 🖤Publishing March 19th! #talesoftheweird

Thank you 😊

The British Book Awards: Small Press of the Year. Regional & County Finalist, London

We are thrilled to be a London Regional & County finalist for Small Press of the Year at the 2026! #Nibbies

Beautiful cover!

Thank you!

I swear, I'd buy every book in this range if I had the money and the shelf space (yes, I'd prefer physical copies for these, because they're such damn handsome volumes). It's an amazing collection.

Love the cover.

I'm really enjoying the Tales of the Weird series from the British Library. Good mix of anthologies and neglected novels. #TalesOfTheWeird

The Black Fox: A Novel of the Eighteen-Seventies

Publishing today! The Black Fox: A Novel of the Eighteen-Seventies

Do you dare to invoke the curse?

Discover this brooding masterpiece oozing with inexorable dread. For those readers seeking out the unsettling… #talesoftheweird

Hope you enjoy it!