SHERLOCK HOLMES DIDN'T DEAL WITH THE SUPERNATURAL. EVIE WINSTANLEY DOES.'Everything I want from dark academia' Susan J. Morris'A terrifically engaging tale of supernatural goings-on' Tim MajorIt's 1904, and being a detective - let alone an occult detective - is no profession for a woman. But that won't stop Evie Winstanley.When her father, a collector of occult books, dies in strange circumstances, Evie is d...

Choosing Terror: Virtue, Friendship and Authenticity in the French Revolution examines the leaders of the French Revolution - Robespierre and his fellow Jacobins - and particularly the gradual process whereby many of them came to 'choose terror'. These men led the Jacobin Club between 1789 and 1794, and were attempting to establish new democratic politics in France. Exploring revolutionary politics through the eyes of these leaders, and against a political backdrop of a series of ...

Private detection is no profession for a woman of standing. Evie Winstanley doesn't care.When Evie's father, a collector of occult books, dies in suspicious circumstances, she decides to uncover the truth. Her only clue is a mysterious reference to the 'circle of shadows.' Her investigation takes her from a séance in a manor house on the Yorkshire moors to a sinister cult hidden amongst the elite of an Oxford University college . . . and all the while, she is haunt...

Au cœur de la réflexion sur la Révolution française, la « terreur » constitue une véritable énigme.Comment cette révolution, qui promeut les Droits de l’Homme, entend réformer la justice au nom des Lumières et convaincre ses opposants par la seule force de la Raison, en vient-elle à mettre en œuvre une terrible répression contre ses adversaires ? La guillotine, initialement conçue pour être un symbole d’humanisation de la peine capitale, devient ainsi un redoutable instrument d’élim...

At the heart of how history sees the French Revolution lies the enigma of the Terror. How did this archetypal revolution, founded on the principles of liberty and equality and the promotion of human rights, arrive at circumstances where it carried out the violent and terrible repression of its opponents? The guillotine, initially designed to be a ‘humane’ form of capital punishment, became a formidable instrument of political repression and left a deep imprint, not only on how we see the R...

If Conan Doyle can't solve the deadly curse that's attacking the Ghost Club, can Evie Winstanley do any better?London, December 1904. After setting up an occult detective agency, Evie is finding supernatural cases are thin on the ground. She's almost out of money when Arthur Conan Doyle appears with a case: to investigate the recent horrifying deaths of members of the Ghost Club, a secret society devoted to the paranormal.Pulled into a world of spectres and...

If Conan Doyle can't solve the deadly curse that's attacking the Ghost Club, can Evie Winstanley do any better?London, December 1904. After setting up an occult detective agency, Evie is finding supernatural cases are thin on the ground. She's almost out of money when Arthur Conan Doyle appears with a case: to investigate the recent horrifying deaths of members of the Ghost Club, a secret society devoted to the paranormal.Pulled into a world of spectres and...