{"title":"Oldcastle Books Ltd","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9780857305527","title":"Writing and Selling Thriller Screenplays","description":"From premise to resolution, the book guides you through the craft of thriller writing, citing classic thrillers such as Psycho, The Shining, The Sixth Sense and Fatal Attraction and lesser-known gems like Red Eye, Desperate Measures, Impostor and Deviation. It considers how the screenplay might be sold to investors, looking at high concept ideas, pitching, packaging and the realities of film finance. Lucy V. Hay asks: what is flight vs. fight? What is the difference between horror and thriller? What are the different sub genres of thriller? What part do actors play in film finance? How can limited locations create new opportunities in storytelling and financing? Why is the lone protagonist so in demand? Why are female characters so popular in thriller? And much, much more...","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43128853594290,"sku":"9780857305527","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780857305527_0db77289-4376-49b1-8c40-69a06cfb5f52.jpg?v=1786015954"},{"product_id":"9780857305510","title":"Illiberal Europe","description":"Eighteen years have passed since ten countries from Central \u0026amp; Eastern Europe joined the European Union and more than three decades since the Berlin Wall was torn down in 1989 - but ignorance about what is popularly still called Eastern Europe is as widespread as ever. Slovenia still gets mixed up with Slovakia, the Slavs remain a mystery in a Europe apparently dominated by Romanic and Germanic nations and a country like the Czech Republic is labelled as Eastern European, although one needs to travel west to get from Vienna to Prague. Leon Marc gives the reader the big picture of Eastern Europe - its political, economic, social and cultural history, the nature of changes there and of the issues at stake in the political and economic transition - while putting the fall of the Berlin Wall and the EU enlargement into a broader perspective of general European history. Three key strands of Eastern Europe - Central Europe, Eastern Europe proper and Southeast Europe - are identified and the Germanic, Byzantine and Ottoman influences on the region are examined. Illiberal Europe? is written in an accessible, non-academic way, addressing the stereotypes about the region and their roots and explaining why the notion of Eastern Europe is now obsolete and misleading. It gives an Eastern European's perspective, and is informed by the author's own personal experience. This updated and expanded edition contains a brand new chapter bringing this book up to date with recent events, including Covid-19 and the Ukrainian conflict.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43128853758130,"sku":"9780857305510","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780857305510_75d89c77-d1ed-4dea-b509-7f042e75ce99.jpg?v=1786015953"},{"product_id":"9780857305435","title":"Barking Up the Right Tree","description":"But there is one condition to her inheritance: she finds herself the unwilling owner of a pet. Not knowing what to expect, Emily sets off for the village, hoping to make a new life for herself. In Ashton Mead, she soon makes friends with Hannah who runs the Sunshine Tea Shoppe and meets other residents of the village where she decides to settle. All is going well... until Emily's ex-boyfriend turns up and against the advice of her new friends, she takes him back. When Emily decides to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a neighbour, she unwittingly puts her own life in danger...","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43128854118578,"sku":"9780857305435","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780857305435.jpg?v=1786015950"},{"product_id":"9780857305350","title":"Free Your Mind!","description":"Between 1967 and 1970 Italian auteur Giovanni 'Tinto' Brass directed four feature films in London, each starring a woman as the main character. Exploring the political, cultural and sexual ideas of their time, often in a deliberate pop-art style, they contain much priceless footage of now forgotten neighbourhoods, galleries, clubs and events as well as an abundance of contemporary music. Free Your Mind! describes the films, their stars, how they were made, and their influence on the social history, pop culture, cinema, music and TV of the time.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43128854151346,"sku":"9780857305350","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780857305350_fe3159d6-b39c-4c7b-bd75-1d943c413dfb.jpg?v=1786015948"},{"product_id":"9780857305688","title":"Barking Mad","description":"Emily has settled in the picturesque village of Ashton Mead, where she lives with her puppy, Poppy. Life is finally going well for Emily. She has a cottage of her own, a job she likes and friends. Then she stumbles on the body of a woman who apparently drowned in the river. The other villagers suspect foul play and are quick to blame Richard, Emily's next-door neighbour and a newcomer to the village. Emily finds it hard to believe her friendly neighbour could be a cold-hearted murderer. When she meets his attractive son, Adam, her feelings become more complicated. Determined to find out the truth behind the death in the village, Emily travels to London to track down the man with whom Richard's wife was having an affair. Unfortunately for Emily, her visit does not go as planned. Instead of helping clear Richard's name, she finds her own life is in danger...","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43172876124338,"sku":"9780857305688","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780857305688.jpg?v=1786015959"},{"product_id":"9780857305183","title":"The Book of the Gaels","description":"Rural West Cork, Ireland. Two Kids, Joseph and Paul, and their struggling, poet father, Fraser, are battling grief and poverty. When a letter arrives with a summons to Dublin and the promise of publication, it offers a chink of light - the hope of rescue. But Dublin is a long, wet and hungry way from West Cork in the mid-70s, especially when they have no money - just the clothes they stand up in and an old, battered suitcase. So begins an almost anti-roadtrip of flipsides and contradictions - dreams and nightmares, promises and disappointments, unconditional love and shocking neglect.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43204076372146,"sku":"9780857305183","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780857305183_e3aa5b1b-c4ae-4181-a5b4-e908eb1592f4.jpg?v=1786015946"},{"product_id":"9780857305640","title":"Connecticut","description":"In 1985, with the acclaimed Suspects, and then in 1990 with the exhilarating Silver Light, David Thomson delivered unprecedented fictions in which the characters were figures from film noir and the Western. Now a trilogy is completed with Connecticut. Why Connecticut? Because that lovely, liberal state has been set aside as the resting place for every disturbed person in the nation! At first, this seems like an opportunity for meeting up with the merry ghosts of Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, Carole Lombard, William Powell and Margaret Sullavan. We get glimpses of Bringing Up Baby, My Man Godfrey and The Lady Eve. But then the wild comedy darkens as we realize that Connecticut itself is on the edge of a demented and cruel war that challenges all its inmates to keep seeing the comic side of mishap and madness. The trilogy is revealed not just as a set of dazzling stories. But a commentary on how far we have all been steered towards delightful but dangerous fantasies by the movies. Aren't we all screwball now? Is Connecticut safe to visit?","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43204081811634,"sku":"9780857305640","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780857305640_c79c2120-572b-4e65-aea6-98ab23aa7e8e.jpg?v=1786015957"},{"product_id":"9780857304629","title":"PROSTrATE CANCER","description":"Faced with a sudden and unexpected diagnosis of prostate cancer, Graham Sharpe set about trying to catalogue what he went through en route to acquiring the condition and how he dealt with the grinding process of his treatment, despite having no idea of the ultimate outcome. Along the way he met and befriended many others undergoing the physical and mental stresses of treatment, emotional turmoil comparable with watching their favourite football team lose every game they play. In this intimate memoir charting his own personal experience of coming to terms with prostate cancer, Graham brings humour and a light touch to a serious subject.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43204148265138,"sku":"9780857304629","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780857304629.jpg?v=1786015935"},{"product_id":"9780857304797","title":"British Traitors","description":"People commit treason for many reasons - some seek adventure, some seek reward, some are motivated by political philosophy, while others are sucked into it by their own foolishness. British Traitors provides a fascinating look at the lives and impulses of those who chose to betray their country.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43204149575858,"sku":"9780857304797","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780857304797_2dcb198a-48fb-42df-a58f-657792a56ede.jpg?v=1786015938"},{"product_id":"9780857305015","title":"1922","description":"1922 was a year of great turbulence and upheaval. Its events reverberated throughout the rest of the twentieth century and still affect us today, 100 years later. Empires fell. In the USA, Prohibition was at its height. The Hollywood film industry, although rocked by a series of scandals, continued to grow. A new mass medium - radio - was making its presence felt and, in Britain, the BBC was founded. The Roaring Twenties had begun to roar and the Jazz Age had arrived. In a sequence of vividly written sketches, Nick Rennison conjures up all the drama and diversity of an extraordinary year.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43204149608626,"sku":"9780857305015","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780857305015.jpg?v=1786015942"},{"product_id":"9780857301390","title":"South","description":"Artists and writers from the colder climes of northern Europe have long felt the lure of the South of the continent. Goethe was revitalised by his encounters with Mediterranean culture on his journey to Italy. Nietzsche took flight southwards to begin his life anew, while DH Lawrence sought the health-giving southern sun in Sicily and Sardinia. It examines the idea of the South as a symbol of freedom and escape, as well as the depository for many of our deepest unconscious fears and desires.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43204152688818,"sku":"9780857301390","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780857301390.jpg?v=1792686175"},{"product_id":"9780857303615","title":"Miles Off Course","description":"In early 1933, Rowland Sinclair and his companions are ensconced in the superlative luxury of the Hydro Majestic in Medlow Bath, where trouble seems distant indeed. And then Harry Simpson vanishes. Croquet and pre-dinner cocktails are abandoned for the High Country where Rowland hunts for Simpson with a determination that is as mysterious as the disappearance itself. Stockmen, gangsters and a belligerent writer all gather to the fray, as the investigation becomes embroiled with a much darker conspiracy. Murder. Treason. Trespass. Kidnapping. Betrayal ... Again, Rowland Sinclair finds himself in the middle of it all.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43204173988018,"sku":"9780857303615","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780857303615.jpg?v=1786015916"},{"product_id":"9780857305664","title":"Race and Entertainment","description":"As a screenwriter you always want to have characters with real depth and authenticity, but too often black characters fall victim to superficial tropes and negative stereotyping. This book begins by asking the reader if they can write a black character. It then asks the reader questions about their knowledge and understanding of race and racism. Exploring the popular representation of law and order, healthcare and celebrity in the entertainment industry and comparing this with the reality of these institutions, Lubimbi opens up the discussion and offers solutions to problems surrounding race, representation and stereotyping.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44583221330098,"sku":"9780857305664","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780857305664_88889ded-8941-4084-84ed-2466a2abdee2.jpg?v=1786015958"},{"product_id":"9780857306074","title":"Riots and Rebels","description":"In 1381, a large army of people marched through the south-east of England to London, demanding an end to unfair taxation and threatening the rule of the boy-king, Richard II. During the eighteenth century, food riots, riots in protest at land enclosure, and riots targeting religious groups and foreigners regularly occurred. In the following century, mass gatherings demanded reform of the electoral system which allowed only a tiny proportion of the population to vote. In the early twentieth century, suffragettes chained themselves to railings, took part in huge demonstrations and endured prison sentences in pursuit of the vote for women. Recent decades have seen tens of thousands of people take to the streets of London and other cities to protest against the Iraq War and, in the last year, the war in Gaza. From the so-called Peasants' Revolt to Just Stop Oil, via the anti-Catholic Gordon Riots of 1780, Luddites breaking machinery which threatened their livelihood, the infamous Peterloo Massacre of 1819, the Chartist demonstrations of the 1830s and 1840s, 1887's Bloody Sunday and many other, often violent events, Nick Rennison provides a concise, compelling account of popular protest in Britain.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":57685759754613,"sku":"9780857306197","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":55205841961333,"sku":"9780857306074","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780857306197.jpg?v=1792598936"},{"product_id":"9780857306029","title":"Poppy Plays Fair","description":"The fair is in town in Ashton Mead and everyone is keen to join in the fun - that is until a young woman falls from the Ferris wheel and all fingers point to Emily's new friend, Dana. With her outsider status, mysterious past and penchant for stretching the truth, who else could it be? As the villagers grow increasingly suspicious of the fairground people and tensions start to bubble, Emily vows to clear Dana's name and protect her friend, much to the dismay of those closest to her. But can Emily and her dog Poppy find the real culprit before the town erupts, or will Emily risk her life for nothing?","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55412239827317,"sku":"9780857306029","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780857306029_ec16a9fe-e049-4b31-9f22-800a86e03a0b.jpg?v=1786015969"},{"product_id":"9780857303356","title":"Crime Fiction: A Reader's Guide","description":"There are few contemporary guides that cover everything from the golden age to current bestselling writers from America, Britain and all across the world, but the award-winning Barry Forshaw, one of the UK's leading experts in the field, has provided a truly comprehensive survey with definitive coverage. Every major writer is included, long with many other more esoteric choices.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56295024820597,"sku":"9780857303356","price":26.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780857303356_d3e0951c-0f25-494b-9c5f-0cb51baa4647.jpg?v=1786015912"},{"product_id":"9780857305961","title":"Everything and the Kitchen Sink","description":"Everything AND the Kitchen Sink analyses 'kitchen sink realism' and the birth of 'pop cinema' in the context of contemporaneous debates surrounding politics, civil liberties, sexuality, race, immigration and urbanisation. Covering the lives and careers of well-known figures such as Alan Sillitoe, Shelagh Delaney, David Storey, Edna O'Brien and Albert Finney, as well as charting the rise of iconic British series like Coronation Street and Z-Cars, Simon Matthews offers a fascinating blend of social history, pop culture, drama and cinema. Matthews also interviews contemporary figures - including Ken Loach - about the kitchen sink era and how it inspired their work.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56295024886133,"sku":"9780857305961","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780857305961_c18aee8c-9331-4512-98f5-c041c5961da9.jpg?v=1786015967"},{"product_id":"9780857304117","title":"Looking for a New England","description":"What happened to UK cinema and TV when swinging London ended? Looking for a New England covers the period 1975 to 1986, from Slade in Flame to Absolute Beginners. A carefully researched exploration of transgressive films, the career of David Bowie, dystopias, the Joan Collins oeuvre, black cinema, the origins and impact of punk music, political films, comedy, how Ireland and Scotland featured on our screens and the rise of Richard Branson and a new, commercial, mainstream. The sequel to Psychedelic Celluloid, it describes over 100 film and TV productions in detail, together with their literary, social and musical influences during a time when profound changes shrank the size of the UK cinema industry.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56295024984437,"sku":"9780857304117","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780857304117_1edb36c7-ca22-4776-a5ea-a6b624bbcac3.jpg?v=1786015926"},{"product_id":"9780857306050","title":"The Pen is Mightier","description":"Best known for forming and fronting the punk band Tenpole Tudor in 1977, Edward Tudor Pole eventually came to prominence after appearing in the film The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle as a possible replacement for Johnny Rotten in the Sex Pistols. In a series of amusing, nostalgic and sometimes outrageous stories, told with candour and wit, Tudor Pole recounts his fascinating youth pre-punk and during the time of Sid Vicious and The Clash before he moved on to an acting career appearing in numerous films and plays including Sid \u0026amp; Nancy, Absolute Beginners, a long term association with cult film director, Alex Cox, cameo appearances in Harry Potter and Game of Thrones and a stint presenting The Crystal Maze. The Pen is Mightier tells of how a troubled start can lead to a happy ending. Tudor Pole writes a fast-paced account of a life spent exploring every avenue of show business before finding out where you belong, taking the reader through his eclectic career as a punk rock band leader, hit songwriter, top 10 pop star, movie actor, TV presenter, West-End leading man and long-term touring musician.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":56295025017205,"sku":"9780857306050","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":57685770666357,"sku":"9780857306159","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780857306159.jpg?v=1792598951"},{"product_id":"9780857304193","title":"Hauntology","description":"Ghosts and spectres, the eerie and the occult. Why is contemporary culture so preoccupied by the supernatural, so captivated by the revenants of an earlier age, so haunted? The concept of Hauntology has evolved since first emerging in the 1990s, and has now entered the cultural mainstream as a shorthand for our new-found obsession with the recent past. But where does this term come from and what exactly does it mean? This book seeks to answer these questions by examining the history of our fascination with the uncanny from the golden age of the Victorian ghost story to the present day. From Dickens to Derrida, MR James to Mark Fisher; from the rise of Spiritualism to the folk horror revival, Hauntology traces our continuing engagement with these esoteric ideas. Moving between the literary and the theoretical, the visual and the political, Hauntology explores our nostalgia for the cultural artefacts of a past from which we seem unable to break free.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56295025246581,"sku":"9780857304193","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780857304193_4fdb23f8-f1cf-44fb-b42a-00510fcd99b8.jpg?v=1786015927"},{"product_id":"9780857300157","title":"Death at Gallows Green","description":"In Death at Bishop's Keep, Kathryn Ardleigh captured the interest of detective Sir Charles Sheridan as they solved their first case together. Now the demise of a local constable and the disappearance of a child have the sleuthing couple on the trail of deadly greed and criminal mischief once again. And with the help of a shy woman who calls herself Beatrix Potter, Kate intends to uncover the sinister secrets of Gallows Green...","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56295041991029,"sku":"9780857300157","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780857300157_edff385c-0bd2-4984-8e63-d703eeb31950.jpg?v=1786015898"},{"product_id":"9780857301178","title":"Writing Diverse Characters For Fiction, TV or Film","description":"We're living in a time of unprecedented diversity in produced media content, with more characters appearing who are Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME), LGBT, disabled, or from other religions or classes. How to Write Diverse Characters discusses issues of all identities with specific reference to characterisation, not only in movies and TV, but also novel writing. It gives writers the tools to create three dimensional, authentic characters... Who just happen to be diverse.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56295042023797,"sku":"9780857301178","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780857301178_c226d8d6-8a43-4537-95e1-4f766f2def95.jpg?v=1786015902"},{"product_id":"9780857302076","title":"A Short History of the Victorian Era","description":"An era, beginning in the 1830s and ending with the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, that saw the British Empire - the largest ever seen - dominate the world. A History of the Victorian Era details the sweeping social and economic changes that took place during this period but also examines the events of the time and the lives of the eminent Victorians who contributed so much to British success - men and women such as Florence Nightingale, Isambard Kingdom Brunel, Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson and Charles Darwin.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56295042089333,"sku":"9780857302076","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780857302076_cfafdb4d-91e6-4bdb-9d35-6c65b1f9fa29.jpg?v=1786015905"},{"product_id":"9780857305114","title":"Beyond the Hero's Journey","description":"In Beyond the Hero's Journey, BAFTA award-winning screenwriter Anthony Mullins presents an accessible, versatile and highly visual alternative to writing that dramatically expands the range of narratives open to both emerging and more experienced writers. Looking at key films from around the world - including Moonlight, Lady Bird, The Social Network, The Godfather, A Fantastic Woman, Mulholland Drive, Shoplifters, Amour, Inside Llewyn Davis, Call Me By Your Name, Midsommar and The Father - he explores the ins and outs of writing for the screen through identifying and taking control of character arcs.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56295043498357,"sku":"9780857305114","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780857305114_fbeb77bc-2c63-4cff-8e0f-d3a52374b7a5.jpg?v=1786015943"},{"product_id":"9780857305817","title":"1974","description":"Presidents resigned, emperors were deposed, and new governments came to power. On both sides of the Atlantic, major political figures left the scene, either through resignation or electoral defeat. Leaders of nations died. Regimes crumbled. In society, the second wave of feminism grew in strength and the rights of historically underrepresented groups were more powerfully asserted. The BBC aired the first lesbian kiss on British TV. In Italy, the right to divorce was protected in a landmark referendum. However, terrorism and the pursuit of political ends through violence became ever more commonplace. The arts and entertainment industries were in the midst of a period of great creativity and innovation. In America, Scorsese, Spielberg and Coppola were making their mark. Popular music was arguably at a low point but the first stirrings of the punk revolution to come could be heard in New York clubs. And a Swedish band that were to become a phenomenon won the Eurovision Song Contest. The roots of many aspects of today's society which we take for granted lie in the 1970s and particularly in this, the decade's pivotal year.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56295045136757,"sku":"9780857305817","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780857305817_0a7cdefa-0e07-4769-8a11-8d4469cd99b2.jpg?v=1786015962"},{"product_id":"9780857305855","title":"A Person is a Prayer","description":"Bedi and Sushma's marriage is arranged. When they first meet, they stumble through a faltering conversation about happiness and hope and agree to go in search of these things together. But even after their children Selena, Tara and Rohan are grown up and have their own families, Bedi and Sushma are still searching. Years later, the siblings attempt to navigate life without their parents. As they travel to the Ganges to unite their father's ashes with the opaque water, it becomes clear that each of them has inherited the same desire to understand what makes a life happy, the same confusion about this question and the same enduring hope.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":57685881782645,"sku":"9780857306043","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":56295045202293,"sku":"9780857305855","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780857306043.jpg?v=1792599106"},{"product_id":"9780857306098","title":"First Class Comrades","description":"No country in history has been more deeply penetrated by spies than divided Germany after the Second World War. Among them were the 'first class comrades' of the Stasi - the East German Ministry for State Security. The early Cold War saw the Stasi establish itself as one of the world's most notorious spy and secret police agencies. Drawing on previously unexamined files from the Stasi archives, First Class Comrades tells the Stasi story from a fresh perspective: how it helped to create a new European state, how its foreign intelligence service became one of the most successful ever, and how its spy-catchers tackled vigorous attempts by the West to infiltrate East Germany - attempts that influenced the decision to build the Berlin Wall. Full of new insights and little-known facts about the Stasi and Cold War espionage, and featuring newly discovered details of the Stasi's operational methods, First Class Comrades shines a light on this lesser-known period of Stasi history, and why its stories and lessons still matter today.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56295045333365,"sku":"9780857306098","price":28.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780857306098_fafc0af9-5beb-46ca-84de-74da6e3e6147.jpg?v=1786032733"},{"product_id":"9780857305947","title":"Tommy the Bruce","description":"Meet Tommy Bruce - he's washed-up already, marooned in a ramshackle hotel inherited from dead parents in the armpit of Perthshire, that's just too far off the main tourist trail to be viable. He's too young to be middle-aged, but too old to be what you could call young (and too lazy to care about it, really). Saddled with debt, grotty premises that are falling down around him and a crippling loneliness, Tommy is slowly but determinedly drinking himself and his business out of existence. Until one day into the lounge-bar, and out of the blue, walks Fiona McLean. And before long she's moved behind the bar, into the hotel and (remarkably) into Tommy's bed. Fiona blows into Tommy's life and through the hotel, and with the light she brings, Tommy's fortunes might just be turning around; but in her wake has also slipped in darkness - names and faces from the past who mean Tommy no goodwill at all, criminal forces that threaten to ruin him, the hotel and what little happiness he's managed, haplessly, to cobble together.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56295045366133,"sku":"9780857305947","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780857305947_65889a1e-1679-433d-a6b4-5aeb596b99bb.jpg?v=1786015966"},{"product_id":"9780857305879","title":"ON THE RECORDs","description":"Far from being yesterday's fading, forgotten format, vinyl records have survived and flourished as the music medium of choice for not only baby-boomers, but all ages. Every record a collector acquires comes with a story of its own, and the recent Covid-19 lockdowns prompted many vinylholics, including Graham Sharpe, to look more closely at their reasons for collecting, take stock of existing collections and rediscover old favourites. Vinyl Countdown followed Sharpe's journey to over a hundred record shops across the globe, from Amsterdam and Angus, to Bedfordshire and Budapest, Tennessee and Wellington. Now, ON THE RECORDs: Notes from the Vinyl Revival explores the impact of recent global events on the record industry and considers the reasons why vinyl remains a beloved and booming format. It includes interviews and contributions from voices across the industry shop owners, record company insiders, online\/postal sellers, auction organisers, market traders of vinyl, amateur collectors who share their stories with candour, warmth and humour.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56295083639157,"sku":"9780857305879","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780857305879_b4484669-4d6e-48e2-9e2e-921f0a1239ce.jpg?v=1786015965"},{"product_id":"9780857305749","title":"Before It Went Rotten","description":"When Anarchy in the UK appeared, London enjoyed one of the most vibrant music scenes in the world. A network of mainly Irish owned pubs and clubs provided music every night, much of it free of charge, whilst working as a testing ground for up and coming talent. This book traces the evolution of what was quickly labelled 'pub-rock': from rock and roll revival acts via late blues bands, country rock, funk, soul and art school bands to the sound that eventually burst on the scene as punk rock in 1976. Specific chapters cover the career of Brinsley Schwarz, the Southend bands and the step by step rise of the Sex Pistols. Among those interviewed are former members of Fumble, Darts, the John Dummer Blues Band, Blue Goose, Legend, Eddie and the Hot Rods, Brinsley Schwarz, Bees Make Honey, Ducks de Luxe, Kokomo, Roogalator, Burlesque, Kilburn and the High Roads, GT Moore and the Reggae Guitars, Clancy, the Fabulous Poodles, the Sex Pistols and Meal Ticket. With acts like Dire Straits, Elvis Costello, Ian Dury and Graham Parker all emerging from this terrain, the reader is asked to consider, what, if anything, would have been different if McLaren's band had never been around. Extensively researched, and drawing on contemporaneous reviews and articles from the music press of the time, Before It Went Rotten bids fair to be the definitive study of an overlooked era.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56295083802997,"sku":"9780857305749","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780857305749_038f8c70-d23d-457f-a6bc-ac96d70402f6.jpg?v=1786015961"},{"product_id":"9780857306005","title":"Poppy's Christmas Cracker","description":"A French patisserie opens in the village of Ashton Mead in time for Christmas. Local residents are pleased but Hannah, owner of the Sunshine Tea Shoppe, feels threatened by the competition. When the owner of the patisserie is killed, Hannah is suspected of murdering her business rival. Her friend, Emily, is determined to clear Hannah's name. She seems to be facing an impossible task... until her little dog Poppy makes a surprising discovery.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56295084654965,"sku":"9780857306005","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780857306005_df854302-cf85-4a8a-934b-321815db8f33.jpg?v=1786015968"},{"product_id":"9780857300133","title":"Death at Bishop's Keep","description":"Kate Adrleigh is everything the Victorian English gentlewoman is not - outspoken, free-thinking, American... And a writer of the frowned upon 'penny-dreadfuls.' Soon after her arrival in Essex, England, a body is unearthed in a nearby archaeological dig - and Kate has the chance to not only research her latest story... But to begin her first case with amateur detective Sir Charles Sheridan.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56295141507445,"sku":"9780857300133","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780857300133_a9fc5188-b16f-407e-9f06-cfcc7daff5bc.jpg?v=1786015897"},{"product_id":"9780857300317","title":"Death in Hyde Park","description":"Queen Victoria is dead, long live King Edward! Kate and Charles Sheridan are attending the new king's coronation ceremony when an anarchist blows himself up in Hyde Park with a bomb that was obviously meant for the Royals. Now, it's up to Kate and Charles to discover who is threatening the crown, and how a brash and arrogant American author named Jack London is involved. Who are the terrorists and what dangers do they really pose? Are the anti-terrorists even more dangerous? Join Kate and Charles as they are dragged into the real world of turn-of-the-century terrorism.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56295141572981,"sku":"9780857300317","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780857300317_58962e14-a2f8-42e0-a7ab-10bdd3343f39.jpg?v=1786015900"},{"product_id":"9780857300294","title":"Death at Glamis Castle","description":"Charles and Kate are summoned to Scotland on a mysterious errand for the Crown. They will be staying at Glamis Castle, a place haunted by shadows and dark secrets. They learn that Prince Eddy, who had been heir to the throne until his supposed death in 1892, is still alive, ten years later. Only now the prince has gone missing--on the very morning that the body of one of his servants was found, her throat slashed. Now, Charles and his clever Kate must find Eddy and clear him from suspicion of murder, while keeping his true identity a secret.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56295141671285,"sku":"9780857300294","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780857300294_0a32f474-ef08-446d-b232-ca5a9899e8be.jpg?v=1786015900"},{"product_id":"9780857303677","title":"A Murder Unmentioned","description":"A newly-discovered gun casts light on Rowland Sinclair's father's death some thirteen years earlier. The whole Sinclair family has ducked the issue, keeping secret the fact that Sinclair senior was murdered. A murder the family would prefer stayed unsolved. Rowland's nemesis, right-wing New Guard leader Eric Campbell, uses his influence to set the police to renew their inquiries into Henry Sinclair's death. As old wounds tear open, the dogged loyalty of Rowland's inappropriate companions is all that stands between him and the consequences of a brutal murder.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56295143932277,"sku":"9780857303677","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780857303677_a3bdeb45-e5f1-4523-a01f-eeffa38ffe7c.jpg?v=1786015918"},{"product_id":"9780857305848","title":"Studio Ghibli","description":"The animations of Japan's Studio Ghibli are among the most respected in the movie industry. Their films rank alongside the most popular non-English language films ever made, with each new eagerly anticipated release a guaranteed box office hit. Yet this highly profitable studio has remained fiercely independent, producing a stream of imaginative and individual animations. The studio's founders, the late Isao Takahata and Hayao Miyazaki, have created timeless masterpieces. Although their films are distinctly Japanese, their themes are universal: humanity, community and a love for the environment. No other film studio, animation or otherwise, comes close to matching Ghibli for pure cinematic experience. Studio Ghibli examines all their major works including Laputa: Castle in the Sky, Grave of the Fireflies, My Neighbour Totoro, Kiki's Delivery Service, Only Yesterday, Porco Rosso, Pom Poko, Whisper of the Heart, Princess Mononoke and Howl's Moving Castle, as well as the critically acclaimed Spirited Away and The Tale of Princess Kaguya. Odell and Le Blanc's informed analysis also considers Studio Ghibli features such as Hayao Miyazaki's Oscar-nominated masterpiece The Wind Rises, When Marnie Was There and the hotly anticipated How Do You Live?, alongside recent co-productions Ronja the Robber's Daughter, Red Turtle and Earwig and the Witch.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56295145996661,"sku":"9780857305848","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780857305848_47412999-6b19-41d9-870a-099f76c9b6c1.jpg?v=1786015963"},{"product_id":"9780857305374","title":"The Art of Wandering","description":"The Art of Wandering is a history of that curious hybrid, the writer as walker. From the Ancient world to the modern day, the role of the walker continues to evolve, from philosopher and pilgrim, vagrant and visionary, to experimentalist and radical. From Rousseau and De Quincey to Virginia Woolf and Werner Herzog, this seemingly innocuous activity has inspired a literary tradition encompassing philosophy and poetry, the novel and the manifesto. Today, this figure has returned to the forefront of the public imagination, as writers and walkers follow in the footsteps of earlier generations. For the walker is once again on the march, seeking out new territory and recording new impressions of the landscape. Newly revised and updated, The Art of Wandering explores these adventures on foot. Every walk can be expressed as a story narrated by the walker; it is these stories and the lives of those who walked them which are examined here.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56295146652021,"sku":"9780857305374","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780857305374_f6969819-9392-4ab4-b337-88167778f095.jpg?v=1786015949"},{"product_id":"9780857301703","title":"A Pocket Essential Short Introduction to Religion","description":"During this time of conflict and suspicion, it is perhaps more important than ever to understand the beliefs and philosophies of other cultures. A Short History of Religion provides a useful guide to the world's most popular religions - Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Judaism and Hinduism - describing their origins and history, beliefs, worship and sacred writings, but also investigates many of the smaller and lesser known religions as well as newer movements such as Scientology, Wicca and Raelism.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56295225426293,"sku":"9780857301703","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780857301703_fe498245-eaa3-4f53-9a8a-d91356d4afea.jpg?v=1786015903"},{"product_id":"9780857303264","title":"Robin Hood","description":"Was there ever a real Robin Hood? Nick Rennison looks at the candidates who have been proposed over the years, from petty thieves to Knights Templar, before moving on to examine the many ways in which Robin Hood has been portrayed in literature and on the screen. He began as the hero of dozens of late medieval ballad, and more recently has been portrayed as everything from proto-socialist man of the people to anarchist thug. As the twenty-first century nears the end of its second decade, Robin Hood is still very much with us.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56295225524597,"sku":"9780857303264","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780857303264_3080aac8-08d6-41b0-9a8e-aaadfde3815e.jpg?v=1786015910"},{"product_id":"9780857301833","title":"How to Crowdfund Your Film","description":"Crowdfunding is a major source of funding for independent films and over $250 million has been raised or films just on Kickstarter alone. This book will guide you through every stage of planning, creating and running your film crowdfunding campaign.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56295226343797,"sku":"9780857301833","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780857301833_0e8e60d8-8815-4191-bced-7aeed21b19b8.jpg?v=1786015905"},{"product_id":"9780857303653","title":"Gentlemen Formerly Dressed","description":"After narrowly escaping the terror of Nazi Germany, Rowland Sinclair and his companions land in London, believing they are safe... but they are wrong. A bizzare murder plunges the hapless Australian into a queer world of British aristocracy, fascist Blackshirts, illicit love, scandal and spies. A world where gentlemen are not always what they are dressed up to be.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56295230308725,"sku":"9780857303653","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780857303653_e9b01052-0e1b-4be3-91e8-5148428283b2.jpg?v=1786015917"},{"product_id":"9780857304438","title":"Dracula","description":"In Dracula: The Origins and Influence of the Legendary Vampire Count, author Giles Morgan examines the roots of the vampire myth and the creation of Bram Stoker's masterpiece of horror.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56295233257845,"sku":"9780857304438","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780857304438_97d91fa8-0cf1-442b-b96a-f4b4ef5ee3a8.jpg?v=1786015933"},{"product_id":"9780857304698","title":"Bloody Valentine","description":"Bloody Valentine is the story of the murder of a young woman called Lynette White in the Cardiff docklands on Valentine's Day 1988. It's also the story of the miscarriage of justice that came after, when three black men, 'the Cardiff Three', were wrongly convicted of her murder. It's a brutally frank tale of racism and police corruption, terrible misogynist violence and the grim realities of sex work. It's a book that got so close to the bone that the author was sued for libel by the police and received death threats from a variety of minor characters. It's an indelible portrait of life in the underbelly of Thatcher's Britain. This new edition includes an introduction and afterword bringing the extraordinary, unhappy saga up to date.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56295234699637,"sku":"9780857304698","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780857304698_b6589ec3-0b80-451f-bda1-35c35d55351e.jpg?v=1786015937"},{"product_id":"9780857304858","title":"Monte Carlo or Bust","description":"This book provides a detailed account for how aspiring sports bettors can use a Monte Carlo simulation to improve the quality, and hopefully profitability, of their betting, and in doing so unravels the mystery of probability and variance that lies at the heart of all gambling.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56295235027317,"sku":"9780857304858","price":29.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780857304858_23e73852-f007-4cdc-a352-7a5170d2342c.jpg?v=1786015939"},{"product_id":"9780857303097","title":"The Great Heresy","description":"With the fall of the Cathar fortress of Montsegur in 1244, Catharism was largely obliterated, although the faith survived into the early fourteenth century. Today, the mystique surrounding the Cathars is as strong as ever, and Sean Martin recounts their story and the myths associated with them in this lively and gripping book.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56295255376245,"sku":"9780857303097","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780857303097_4cf42cc9-a842-4ac9-ae9d-bea6fb5a12d6.jpg?v=1786015907"},{"product_id":"9780857304162","title":"Simenon","description":"Celebrated crime fiction expert Barry Forshaw's informed and lively study draws together Georges Simenon's extraordinary life and his work on both page and screen. Alongside his own considerable insights, Barry Forshaw has interviewed people who worked either with Simenon or on his books: publishers, editors, translators, and other specialist writers. He has created a literary prism through which to appreciate one of the most distinctive achievements in the whole of crime fiction.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56295265501557,"sku":"9780857304162","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780857304162_4071c695-bd3e-44fe-be24-9e983bd9f22e.jpg?v=1786015926"},{"product_id":"9780857303882","title":"The War That Never Ended","description":"The Korean War of 1950-1953 ended in a frustrating stalemate, the echoes of which reverberate to this day. It was the only conflict of the Cold War in which forces of major nations of the two opposing systems - capitalism and communism - confronted each other on the battlefield. And yet, in the sixty years since it was fought it has been strangely neglected, perhaps because no one was able to claim the victor's spoils.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56295265534325,"sku":"9780857303882","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780857303882_684c1708-a5c2-4eeb-bbe4-e55fab9a22b8.jpg?v=1786015924"},{"product_id":"9780857305022","title":"Silver Light","description":"From 1865 to 1950, the multi-faceted world of the American West, its rich, colourful characters, and its many faces - historical, mythic, and cinematic - are captured in the story of a reclusive, elderly photographer and her friend, a writer of Western comic books. Silver Light artfully juxtaposes the brimming frontier of legend against a construct of the West as a constricted wilderness of the soul.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56295265567093,"sku":"9780857305022","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780857305022_37f97ca5-3fef-449c-bb22-9b6835bfcbf3.jpg?v=1786015942"},{"product_id":"9780857305725","title":"Poppy Takes the Lead","description":"Unlike the other villagers, Silas Strang and his mother are rude and aggressive. The other residents of Ashton Mead live in fear of upsetting the Strangs. When Silas attacks Emily's beloved dog, she decides it is time to confront the bully. Shortly after she threatens Silas, he is murdered. To Emily's dismay, the police regard her as a suspect. The only way she can prove her innocence is by discovering the real killer and proving their guilt. Assisted by her friends, Hannah and Toby, she sets out to establish the truth, but her enquiries have frightening consequences. Emily finds her life is in danger as she fights to clear her name.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56295270252917,"sku":"9780857305725","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780857305725_dba9120b-5bd1-46c1-9ef3-89ee90f899ab.jpg?v=1786015960"},{"product_id":"9780857301154","title":"The History of Witchcraft","description":"The witch in history was a very different creature from her modern counterpart. Lois Martin sets out to explore the historical background to the European witchcraft phenomenon, examining in detail the growth of the ideological, cutural and legal concepts that eventually led to the carnage of the Witch Craze in the 16th and 17th centuries which, it is estimated, may have claimed the lives of 40,000 people. A perfect gap-bridger between lay interest and the academic history of one of the oldest practices in the Western world.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56295292338549,"sku":"9780857301154","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780857301154_c86f5d25-5d61-472c-9696-ee9830e30312.jpg?v=1786015901"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/publisher-oldcastle-books-ltd.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}