True stories, strange places and big ideas.
An independent UK publisher of true ghost stories and legends from the places they happened, guides to the towns most visitors pass straight through, and plain-English books on the science and technology changing the world.
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Hauntings gathered by place - castles, pubs, railways and rural counties, from Britain and Ireland to America.
Explore the series →First-hand accounts from the night shift - police, paramedics, nurses and the armed forces.
Explore the series →Battlefields, barracks and the Blitz - the dead who never left, from the Napoleonic Wars to the Cold War.
Explore the series →Celtic and classical folklore - the gods, heroes and older magic of each land.
Explore the series →Military encounters and aerial phenomena from records that were never quite closed.
Explore the series →Quirky, curious and downright odd - the true stories clergy, cabin crew and others tell when the job gets strange.
Explore the series →The towns and cities most visitors pass straight through - and every reason to stop.
Explore the series →Leading-edge ideas explained in plain English - AI, quantum computing and the physics of the impossible.
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