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Dark And Creepy

William Leith T HE F OLIO B OOK OF H ISTORICAL M YSTERIES edited by Ian Pindar £24.95 (plus £3.95 p&p), pp. 396, available through the Folio Society, 44 Eagle Street, London......

The Temple Of Flora

More than two centuries after it was completed, Robert John Thornton’s magnum opus is still virtually unsurpassed in terms of botanical illustration. By employing the foremost......

The Devil’s Work

Andro Linklater P AYBACK : D EBT AND THE S HADOW S IDE OF W EALTH by Margaret Atwood Bloomsbury, £9.99, pp. 230, ISBN 9780747598497 ✆ £7.99 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 T......