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Fair fa' your honest, sonsie face, / Great chieftain o the puddin'-race! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 To celebrate #BurnsNight, here’s a look at an early manuscript of Robert Burns' ‘A Red, Red Rose’ - taken from our title ‘Poems in Progress: Drafts from Master Poets’. 🌹 https://t.co/Hjr0zfMMPY

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Happy #WorldPoetryDay one and all! 📚🥳 Have you ever wanted to see early drafts of the world's most famous poems? From Sappho to Sylvia Plath, William Wordsworth to Derek Walcott, 'Poems in Progress: Drafts from Master Poets' brings together early versions of ... https://t.co/3sAnv6ymdk

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In ‘Mending Wall’, Robert Frost explores the topic of boundaries, describing how he and his neighbour set about mending a wall damaged by rabbit hunters. Learn more about early versions of your favourite poems in 'Poems in Progress: Drafts from Master Poets'. 📚 https://t.co/03YFPVxX1Z

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And a Happy #PublicationDay as well to the ‘The Whisperers and Other Stories: A Lifetime of the Supernatural’ by Algernon Blackwood – a unique take on Blackwood’s work capitalising on editor Mike Ashley’s position as one of the author’s chief biographers to lend fascinating... https://t.co/SXjGiV3UT8

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In 'A History of Britain in 100 Maps', Jeremy Black takes readers deep into the unparalleled collections of the @britishlibrary Map Room to tell a new story of the British Isles through acknowledged treasures and previously undiscovered and unpublished items. 🗺️ https://t.co/Aj4SxOJGvX

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... Frank Howel Evans a full decade before Agatha Christie first introduced readers to 'Hercule Poirot'. You can read Frank Howel Evans' story in full, and get a look at the contents (thanks to @exacteditions and their ISBN Reading Rooms) here: https://t.co/oxGrl3S2Fq https://t.co/LJCmdlg00Y

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A holly, jolly review of our Christmas #CrimeClassic 'A Surprise for Christmas: And Other Seasonal Mysteries' (edited by @medwardsbooks) from @on_magazine! 🎄🎁 https://www.on-magazine.co.uk/arts/book-review/crime/a-surprise-for-christmas/

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You might already know May Sinclair from ‘The Tree of Heaven’ (republished by us in 2020) but now you can get to know a more sinister side to her writing... 👻 'The Flaw in the Crystal: And Other Uncanny Stories by May Sinclair', the newest #TalesoftheWeird, is available now. 📚 https://t.co/onZ9aqlzAz

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Published last week... 📚 ‘The Little Blue Flames: And Other Uncanny Tales by A.M. Burrage’ presents 15 of the author’s best tales from the 1920s and 30s – including accounts of living wax figures, timeslips into troubled pasts and Burrage’s horror masterpiece ‘One Who Saw’.’ 👻 https://t.co/6zwbrXo7vC

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Ambrose Bierce was one of America’s leading convention-defying writers, seen by contemporaries as a natural successor to Edgar Allan Poe – but still remains relatively unknown by many. Until now. ‘The Ways of Ghosts: And Other Dark Tales by Ambrose Bierce’ publishes this month. https://t.co/XdKPNMcj58