A Magick Life: The Life of Aleister Crowley
by Martin Booth
Coronet Books, £8.99, ISBN 0340718064
If you believe in magic as much as in little green...
Fairies in Nineteenth-century Art and Literature (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-century Literature & Culture)
by Nicola Bown
Cambridge University Press, £40, ISBN 0521793157
Victorians were fascinated by fairies....
A User's Guide to the Brain
by John Ratey
Little, Brown, £12.99, ISBN 0316854069
The author of this 400+ pages book is clinical professor at Harvard Medical...
Snake Oil and Other Preoccupations
by John Diamond
Vintage, £7.99, ISBN 0099428334
Because the medium through which most people knew John Diamond was his Times column, in...
Inventing the Victorians
by Matthew Sweet
Faber and Faber, £16.99, ISBN 0571206581
Opium, sex crime and serial killers aren’t usually the first things that spring to mind...
Final Seance: The Strange Friendship Between Houdini and Conan Doyle
by Massimo Polidoro
Prometheus Books, £21.99, ISBN 1573928968
In 1932 Ernst and Carrington wrote Houdini and Conan...
The Dream Drugstore: Chemically Altered States of Consciousness
by J Allan Hobson
MIT Press, £19.50, ISBN 0262082934
The title of this book is a reference to the...
The Mummy Congress: Science, Obsession and the Everlasting Dead
by Heather Pringle
4th Estate, £15.99, ISBN 1841151114
Among the theatrical attractions of 1830s Britain was “mummy unrolling”....
