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Freemasonry

Freemasonry by Giles Morgan Pocket Essentials, £9.99 (hb), ISBN 13: 978 1 904048 87 9 Freemasonry is often called a “secret society”, but this seems to be...

The History of Witchcraft

The History of Witchcraft by Lois Martin Pocket Essentials 2007, £9.99, ISBN 1-904048-77-3 There is no solid evidence that real organised witch cults ever existed. Martin shows...

How to Start Your Own Secret Society

How to Start Your Own Secret Society by Nick Harding Oldcastle, £6.99, ISBN 1-904048-84-6 The title is enough of a hint that this is hardly likely to...

Bad Medicine

Bad Medicine: Doctors Doing Harm Since Hippocrates by David Wootton Oxford University Press, £9.99 (pb), ISBN 978-0-19-921279-8 The main theme of this book is that, until the...

Ghost Hunters: The Victorians and the Hunt for Proof of Life After Death

The Ghost Hunters by Deborah Blum Arrow Books, £8.99 (pb), ISBN 978-0099469346 In 1848, in Hydesville, New York, two sisters, Kate and Margaret Fox, began ‘communicating’ with...

Quirkology: The Curious Science of Everyday Lives

Quirkology: The Curious Science of Everyday Lives by Richard Wiseman Pan Macmillan, £9.99, ISBN 978-0-230-70215-8 In this eminently readable survey, Wiseman introduces the general reader to a...

Nick Pope: The Man Who Left the MOD

Nick Pope: The Man Who Left the Mod (REGION 1) (NTSC) directed by Philip Gardiner Reality Films, £27.99, EAN 883629172309 If you really expect anything to be...

The Psychic Handbook

The Psychic Handbook: Discover and Enhance Your Hidden Psychic Powers by Craig & Jane Hamilton Parker Vermilion, £10.99, ISBN 978-0091790868 Do you finish people’s sentences for them?...
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