Ever wondered what goes on behind the scenes in hotels?Hotels represent nations, hosting visiting monarchs, politicians, and diplomats. Hotels underpin global networks of travel and communication, on which national and international prosperity have increasingly depended since the end of the First World War. Yet hotels are also places where people can be anonymous; where murderers and thieves mix with adulterers and con artists; and where prejudice finds expression ...

Night Raiders is the first history of burglary in modern Britain. Until 1968, burglary was defined in law as occurring only between the 'night-time' hours of nine pm and six am in residential buildings. Time and space gave burglary a unique cloak of terror, since burglars' victims were likely to be in the bedroom, asleep and unawares, when the intruder crept in, prowling near them in the darkness. Yet fear sometimes gave way to sexual fantasy; eroticized visions of handsome young ...

Between 1860 and 1935, about 100,000 impoverished children were emigrated from Britain to Canada to seek a new life in the “land of plenty.” Charities, religious workers, philanthropists, and state-run institutions such as workhouses and orphanages all sent children abroad, claiming that this was the only way to prevent their becoming criminals or joining the masses of working-class unemployed.Friendless or Forsaken? follows the story of child emigration agencies operating ...

Bloomsbury presents The Secret Life of the Hotel by Eloise Moss, read by Lindsey Campbell.Ever wondered what goes on behind the scenes in hotels?Hotels represent nations, hosting visiting monarchs, politicians, and diplomats. Hotels underpin global networks of travel and communication, on which national and international prosperity have increasingly depended since the end of the First World War. Yet hotels are also places where people can be anonym...

"Mosses from an Old Manse and Other Stories" by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a collection of short stories that showcase the author's mastery of American Romantic literature. The title story, "Mosses from an Old Manse," is a nostalgic reflection on Hawthorne's time spent in the Old Manse, a historic home in Concord, Massachusetts. Through vivid imagery and dream-like symbolism, Hawthorne explores themes of solitude, sin, and the supernatural. In "Mosses from an Old Manse and Other Stories," read...