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Book 1 in the Nick Revill series
'Highly entertaining' Sunday Times In the last decade of Elizabeth I's reign, Nick Revill, an aspiring young actor, comes to London seeking fame and f...
Book 6 in the Nick Revill series
'Highly entertaining' Sunday Times It's the summer of 1604 and the Spanish are in London. Many years after the ill-fated Armada, they are negotiating ...
No 2
Elizabeth I is nearing the end of her reign with no direct heir and plots and rumours of rebellion abound. The Queen's former favourite, the Earl of E...
Life's Hidden Laws, Rules and Theories
What is the shade of difference between Sod's Law and Murphy's Law? What is the Helsinki Bus Station Theory? What part do the McNaughton Rules and the...
And What They Say About Us
Once upon a time, the worst words you could utter were short, simple and tended to be four letters in length. Now things are more complicated. To be i...
How the English Language Conquered the World
Born as a Germanic tongue with the arrival in Britain of the Anglo-Saxons in the early medieval period, heavily influenced by Norman French from the 1...
World War Two in 100 Phrases
War words have embedded themselves in our collective psyche; British politicians are fond of invoking the 'Dunkirk spirit' whenever the country is fac...
In the fog-shrouded autumn of 1873 a man dies violently while searching a burial chamber on the outskirts of the city of Salisbury. At the same time T...
A No-nonsense Guide to Words and Phrases
"Have you ever been embarassed by the bons mots that some people toss casually into conversation, or wished that you had a clever retort?" "Faux Pas o...
Book 2 in the Nick Revill series
'Another clever criminal plunge into history' Guardian Elizabeth I is nearing the end of her reign with no direct heir and plots and rumours of rebell...
A No-nonsense Guide to Words and Phrases from Other Languages
Have you ever been taken aback by the chutzpahof some people who dot their conversation with foreign words and phrases? Meeting someone like this, esp...
Fifth Nick Revill
When the Black Death strikes London, all the theatres are closed down by order of the Privy Council. The Chamberlain's Men, the theatre company Nick R...
The story of Dr. Frankenstein and the obsessive experiment that leads to the creation of a monstrous and deadly creature....
Book 4 in the Nick Revill series
'Another clever criminal plunge into history' Guardian On a foggy morning in 1602, a boyhood friend of Nick Revill arrives in London. When Peter Agate...
A no-nonsense guide to easily confused words
Who's Whose? is an entertaining and straightforward guide to the most commonly confused words in English today, with real examples of good and bad usa...
Book 3 in the Nick Revill series
'Highly entertaining' Sunday Times Midsummer 1601. Nick Revill and his fellow actors in the Chamberlain's Men are journeying across the Wiltshire Down...
A No-Nonsense Guide to Words and Phrases from Other Languages
If you have ever been bamboozled by the use of a foreign word or phrase, or simply want to spice up your vocabulary with some well-chosen bons mots, t...
A No-Nonsense Guide to the Use of Names in Everyday Language
Ever had a Hitchcockian experience (in the shower perhaps?!) or met someone with a distinctly Ortonesque outlook on life? There are hundreds of words ...
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Third in the highly-acclaimed nineteenth-century 'Cathedral' mystery series When Mr Lye, an elderly partner at Tom Ansell's law firm, drops dead at hi...
AD 848.Bernwyn of Lythe, the young daughter of an ealdorman, spurns marriage and chooses to remain a virgin dedicated to Christ. When she is found mur...
In the fifth novel in the Shakespearean mystery series, physician Dr. Hugh Fern hires Nick Revill and the Chamberlain's Men to stage a private perform...
Second in the gripping new 19th century 'Cathedral' murder mystery series from the acclaimed author of the 'Nick Revill' mysteries - For the newly-wed...
Five intriguing interlinked mysteries from the Medieval Murderers group....
Winner of the HRH Duke of Edinburgh English Speaking Union English Language Book Award 2006. An award winning language book, this is a lively and enga...
'Gooden may be the best history-mystery writer going.' Booklist London 1874. Newlyweds Tom and Helen Ansell attend a London seance at which Ernest Smi...
M R James was a brilliant linguist, palaegrapher, medievalist and biblical scholar, but the underlying supernatural horror in his stories has made the...
Amysterious book of prophecies written by a sixth century Irish monk has puzzled scholars through the ages. Foretelling wars, plagues and rebellions, ...
Praise for Philip Gooden:"Gooden may be one of the best history-mystery writers going. . . . Marvellous."-Booklist (starred review)In England in 1847,...
No 3
Third in the entertaining adventures of Shakespearean actor and sleuth, Nick Revill. It is midsummer in the year 1601. Nick Revill and his fellow acto...
The Medieval Murderers are Bernard Knight, Ian Morson, Michael Jecks, Susanna Gregory, and Philip Gooden....
A Historical Mystery
1154. When the first performance of The Play of Adam ends in tragedy, the author is compelled to pen a grim warning for the generations that follow. B...
Three years after his secret mission to Aquitaine, poet and diplomat Geoffrey Chaucer finds himself once more embarked on royal business. After an ard...
Aimed at students and their teachers, the book uses a thematic approach to stimulate involvement with a selection of texts which share a common theme,...
A Shakespearean Murder Mystery
Midsummer 1601. Nick Revill and his fellow actors in the Chamberlainโs Men are journeying across the Wiltshire Downs for a country-house presentatio...
Aiming to provide a lively, practical and sometimes entertaining guide to improving aspects of the reader's English, this book takes as its starting p...
Poet and diplomat Geoffrey Chaucer, newly returned from a delicate mission to Florence on behalf of Edward III, is despatched to sort out a home-grown...