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    London Particulars

    A BBC Radio 4 crime drama

    by John Peacock ...
    Narrated by Todd Carty, Charles Simpson, Full Cast ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 52 min

    A BBC Radio thriller series about two old-school detectives who solve crimes in Victorian London1839, and Bow Street Runner Pip Shepherd is out of a job. The Runners have been disbanded, merged with Sir Robert Peel's new Metropolitan Police - and there's no way Pip's signing up with them. But when he befriends 'Peeler' Thomas Tedman, and hears about an upcoming detective division, he has second ... Read more

    $12.08 USD

  • Picturing Courtiers and Nobles from Castiglione to Van Dyck

    Self Representation by Early Modern Elites

    by John Peacock ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Art History
    This interdisciplinary study examines painted portraiture as a defining metaphor of elite self-representation in early modern culture.Beginning with Castiglione’s Book of the Courtier (1528), the most influential early modern account of the formation of elite identity, the argument traces a path across the ensuing century towards the images of courtiers and nobles by the most persuasive of ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • The Story of Edinburgh

    by John Peacock ...
    This richly illustrated history explores every aspect of life in Edinburgh. This book covers the history of the city of Edinburgh from the first Mesolithic explorers who camped on the shores of the Forth some 10,000 years ago to the controversies of modern times. Taking a wider perspective it explores the ever-changing world resulting from industrialisation, which brought immigrants, wealth and ... Read more

    $17.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Posters of the Moulin Rouge

    Eight BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramas based on the characters of Toulouse-Lautrec

    by John Peacock ...
    Narrated by Frances Barber, Stephen Thorne, Full Cast, Julie Covington, Angela Pleasence, Bonnie Langford, Clarence Smith, Dermot Crowley, Miranda Richardson, Bernard Hill ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 40 min

    Toulouse-Lautrec's iconic Parisian poster stars come to life in these full-cast dramas, set in 19th-century Montmartre1889, Paris. When Charles Zidler's extravagant pleasure palace, the Moulin Rouge, opens in bohemian Montmartre, he commissions local artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec to create a series of posters to promote it. The striking lithographs Henri produces will make his name - and launch ... Read more

    $17.45 USD

  • The Greatest Gothic Classics

    Enriched edition. Frankenstein, The Castle of Otranto, St. Irvyne, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Phantom Ship, The Beetle…

    by Edgar Allan Poe, Mary Shelley, Horace Walpole, William Thomas Beckford, Eliza Parsons, William Godwin, Ann Radcliffe, Matthew Gregory Lewis, Charles Brockden Brown, Jane Austen, Thomas Love Peacock0, John William Polidori1, Washington Irving2, Charles Robert Maturin3, James Hogg4, Victor Hugo5, Frederick Marryat6, Nikolai Gogol7, Charlotte Brontë8, Emily Brontë9, James Malcolm Rymer0, Thomas Peckett Prest1, Nathaniel Hawthorne2, George Eliot3, Wilkie Collins4, Robert Louis Stevenson5, Charles Dickens6, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu7, Arthur Conan Doyle8, Oscar Wilde9, Guy de Maupassant0, Anna Katharine Green1, Charlotte Perkins Gilman2, Arthur Machen3, George MacDonald4, John Meade Falkner5, H. G. Wells6, Richard Marsh7, Henry James8, Bram Stoker9, W. W. Jacobs0, Robert Hugh Benson1, Gaston Leroux2, Théophile Gautier3, William Hope Hodgson4, Grant Allen5, Jayden Walsh1 ...
    Translated by Samuel Henley7, Isabel F. Hapgood8, C. J. Hogarth9 ...
    The Greatest Gothic Classics is a momentous anthology that showcases an exceptional array of literary styles and themes, encapsulating the darker contours of human experience and imagination. This collection spans the vivid terrains of terror, romance, and sublime mystery, characteristic of the Gothic tradition. From the ghostly echelons of haunted narratives to the twisted corridors of the ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Postcards: The Complete Series 1-15

    A Full-Cast BBC Radio Drama

    by Dave Sheasby, Lavinia Murray, Jonathan Holloway, Ginnie Hole, Bryony Lavery, Helen Kluger, Sue Teddern, Nick Darke, John Peacock, Charlotte Jones ...
    Narrated by Tim McInnerny, Rosemary Leach, Lorelei King, Full Cast, Mark Bonnar, Jane Whittenshaw, Charlotte Coleman, Alison Pettitt, Susannah Doyle, Tristan Sturrock ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 58 min

    Behind every picture-perfect Cornish holiday lies a story waiting to be toldPorthant Bay looks like the perfect Cornish seaside escape: white sands, sparkling blue sea, narrow winding streets and a picturesque harbour. But beneath its postcard-perfect surface lies a town full of hidden stories.This immersive drama collection follows the lives of the visitors and residents who pass through Porthant ... Read more

    $21.48 USD

  • The Definition, Practice, and Psychology of Vedanā

    Knowing How It Feels

    Edited by John Peacock, Martine Batchelor ...
    This book examines the importance of the topic of *‘*feeling tone’ (vedanā) as it appears in early Buddhist texts and practice, and also within contemporary, secular, mindfulness-based interventions.The volume aims to highlight the crucial nature of the ‘feeling tone’ or ‘taste of experience’ in determining mental reactivity, behaviour, character, and ethics. In the history of Buddhism, and in its ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • The Right Heart

    Edited by Sean P. Gaine, Robert Naeije, Andrew John Peacock ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    The heart and lung are intricately linked. When the heart is affected by disease, the lungs will often show some related pathological or clinical conditions and vice versa. Pulmonary heart disease is by definition a condition when the lungs cause the heart to fail. The left ventricle in combination with the other structures in the “left heart” pumps blood throughout the body. The right ventricle ... Read more

    $161.09 USD

  • The Lost Art of Chivalry - 20 Medieval Romance Novels

    Arthurian Quests, Grail Visions, Crusader Legends, and Courtly Love

    by Maurice Hewlett, Wolfram von Eschenbach, Robert Williams Buchanan, Sir Thomas Malory, Emily Sarah Holt, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Walter Scott, Sir Thomas Dick Lauder, Mrs. Lawrence Turnbull, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Stanley John Weyman, Thomas Love Peacock, Grace Aguilar, Ottilie A. Liljencrantz, Florence L. Barclay, Emma Orczy, Georg Ebers, Jessie L. Weston, Friedrich de La Motte-Fouqué ...
    The Lost Art of Chivalry gathers twenty romances that reimagine the medieval world as a theater of quest, fidelity, dynastic conflict, spiritual testing, and courtly desire. Moving from Arthurian legend and Grail lore to Crusading adventure, historical pageantry, and Gothic enchantment, the volume displays an unusually broad range of narrative modes: archaic romance, Victorian historical fiction, ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Timeless Tales of Chivalry: 50 Outstanding Medieval Historical Novels

    Fifty Medieval Romances of Grail Quests, Crusades, Castle Intrigue, and Sacred Vows

    by Felix Dahn, Mary Shelley, Walter Scott, Henryk Sienkiewicz, Howard Pyle, George Gissing, William Morris, Grace Aguilar, Ottilie A. Liljencrantz, Wolfram von Eschenbach, Cao Xueqin, James Hogg, Georg Ebers, Robert Williams Buchanan, Lew Wallace, G. P. R. James, Pearl Poet, C. R. Macauley, Joaquín Telesforo de Trueba y Cosío, John Fox Jr., G. A. Henty, William John Ferrar, Quatrelles, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Arthur W. Marchmont, Robert E. Howard, F. Marion Crawford, Friedrich de La Motte-Fouqué, Sylvanus Cobb, Robert B. Brough, Jean Bernard Lafon, Thomas Malory, Tobias Smollett, Florence L. Barclay, Emma Orczy, Jessie L. Weston, Thomas Love Peacock, John Bunyan, Maurice Hewlett, Mrs. Lawrence Turnbull, Sir Thomas Dick Lauder, Emily Sarah Holt ...
    Timeless Tales of Chivalry gathers fifty works that imagine, inherit, and interrogate the medieval past through romance, adventure, chronicle, gothic fantasy, quest narrative, and historical fiction. Ranging from Arthurian legend and crusading ideals to courtly love, dynastic conflict, religious struggle, and outlawry, the volume places canonical medieval voices beside later reinventions of ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • 60 GOTHIC CLASSICS - Boxed Set: Dark Fantasy Novels, Supernatural Mysteries, Horror Tales & Gothic Romances (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. Timeless Supernatural Tales & Dark Romantic Journeys

    by Edgar Allan Poe, Mary Shelley, Horace Walpole, William Thomas Beckford, Eliza Parsons, William Godwin, Ann Radcliffe, Matthew Gregory Lewis, Charles Brockden Brown, Jane Austen, Thomas Love Peacock0, John William Polidori1, Washington Irving2, Charles Robert Maturin3, James Hogg4, Victor Hugo5, Frederick Marryat6, Nikolai Gogol7, Charlotte Brontë8, Emily Brontë9, James Malcolm Rymer0, Thomas Peckett Prest1, Nathaniel Hawthorne2, George Eliot3, Wilkie Collins4, Robert Louis Stevenson5, Charles Dickens6, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu7, Arthur Conan Doyle8, Oscar Wilde9, Guy de Maupassant0, Anna Katharine Green1, Charlotte Perkins Gilman2, Arthur Machen3, George MacDonald4, John Meade Falkner5, H. G. Wells6, Richard Marsh7, Henry James8, Bram Stoker9, W. W. Jacobs0, Robert Hugh Benson1, Gaston Leroux2, Théophile Gautier3, William Hope Hodgson4, Grant Allen5, Bennett Alderwyn1 ...
    Translated by Samuel Henley7, Isabel F. Hapgood8, C. J. Hogarth9 ...
    60 GOTHIC CLASSICS gathers the major currents of Gothic writing into a single capacious archive, tracing the mode from haunted castles and ancestral secrets to psychological terror, urban mystery, decadent fantasy, and proto-science fiction. Its range embraces dark romances, supernatural tales, sensation narratives, detective-inflected mysteries, and existential horrors, revealing how the Gothic ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • DEEP, DARK & UNSETTLING: 100+ Gothic Classics in One Edition

    Over a Century of Haunted Castles, Vampires, Mad Science, and Psychological Terror

    by Théophile Gautier, William Blake, Horace Walpole, Mary Shelley, Ann Radcliffe, Matthew Gregory Lewis, Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, William Thomas Beckford, Eliza Parsons, Eleanor Sleath, William Godwin, Charles Brockden Brown, Percy Bysshe Shelley, E. T. A. Hoffmann, Thomas Love Peacock, Edgar Allan Poe, John William Polidori, Washington Irving, Charles Robert Maturin, James Hogg, Victor Hugo, Frederick Marryat, Nikolai Gogol, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, George W. M. Reynolds, James Malcolm Rymer, Thomas Peckett Prest, Nathaniel Hawthorne, George Eliot, Wilkie Collins, Mayne Reid, Robert Louis Stevenson, Charles Dickens, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Émile Erckmann, Alexandre Chatrian, Walter Hubbell, Arthur Conan Doyle, Oscar Wilde, Guy de Maupassant, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Arthur Machen, George MacDonald, John Meade Falkner, Marie Corelli, Richard Marsh, Henry James, Bram Stoker, Joseph Conrad, Guy Boothby, W. W. Jacobs, M. R. James, Robert Hugh Benson, E. F. Benson, Gaston Leroux, William Hope Hodgson, Grant Allen, Tobias Smollett, Clara Reeve, Friedrich Schiller, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Lord Byron, Robert Browning, Christina Rossetti ...
    Translated by Samuel Henley, Isabel F. Hapgood, C. J. Hogarth ...
    DEEP, DARK & UNSETTLING gathers more than a century of Gothic experimentation into a capacious archive of terror, wonder, and psychological disturbance. Its contents range from foundational castle romances, spectral ballads, and Faustian tales to detective mysteries, decadent fantasies, imperial nightmares, and proto-science-fictional horrors. Recurring images—ruined houses, forbidden manuscripts, ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus