Gyles Daubeney Brandreth

With help from his friends Arthur Conan Doyle and Robert Sherard, young Oscar Wilde investigates the murder of an artist's model whose body has disappeared, in a story based on the true crime that inspired "The Picture of Dorian Gray."

Oscar Wilde and a Death of No Importance

Oscar Wilde and the Ring of Death

A revealing account of the marriage of Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh offers insight into their contrasting childhoods in spite of a similar ancestry; the impact of exile, assassination, and divorce on Philip's life; and the enigmatic nature of their long-time partnership. Reprint.

Portrait of a Royal Marriage

Philip and Elizabeth

Oscar Wilde ve mum ışığı cinayetleri

The Law is an Ass

In OSCAR WILDE AND THE CANDLELIGHT MURDERS, the first in Gyles Brandreth's acclaimed Oscar Wilde Murder Mysteries series featuring Oscar Wilde and Arthur Conan Doyle, the brutal murder of a young rent-boy puts Oscar in grave danger... 'Intelligent, amusing and entertaining' Alexander McCall Smith London, 1889. Oscar Wilde, celebrated poet, wit, playwright and raconteur is the literary sensation of his age. All Europe lies at his feet. Yet when he chances across the naked corpse of sixteen-year-old Billy Wood, posed by candlelight in a dark, stifling attic room, he cannot ignore the brutal murder. With the help of fellow author Arthur Conan Doyle he sets out to solve the crime - but it is Wilde's unparalleled access to all degrees of late Victorian life, from society drawing rooms and the bohemian demi-monde to the underclass, that will prove the decisive factor in their investigation of what turns out to be a series of brutal killings. The Oscar Wilde Murders is a gripping detective story of corruption and intrigue, of Wilde's growing success, of the breakdown of his marriage, and of his fatal friendship with Aidan Fraser, Inspector at Scotland Yard... Set against the exotic background of fin-de-siecle London, Paris, Oxford and Edinburgh, Gyles Brandreth recreates Oscar Wilde's trademark sardonic wit with huge flair, intertwining all the intrigue of the classic English murder mystery with a compelling portrait of one of the greatest characters of the Victorian age.

Oscar Wilde and the Candlelight Murders

Presents optical illusions and explains why the eyes perceive what isn't actually so.

The Great Book of Optical Illusions

The Greatest Book of Spycraft Ever Known

1000 Secrets

Sandy Ransford

Julie Dene

Story of the Tamworth Two

Great Escape

An alphabetically arranged collection of tongue twister including the famous "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers."

The Biggest Tongue Twister Book in the World

Gyles Brandreth's Book of Puzzles and Brainteasers

The author, having spent time with the royal couple, explores the marriage between Queen Elizabeth II and Philip.

Portrait of a Marriage

Philip & Elizabeth

1000 Word Wonders

From Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard - stars of the original Brief Encounter - to the Queen and Posh Spice, Gyles Brandreth has met an extraordinary array of remarkable people. This book is a record of the most notable of those encounters as chronicled in his acclaimed interviews in the Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph, prefaced by an exploration of the art and craft of the interview by one of its most celebrated practitioners.

Meetings with Remarkable People

Brief Encounters

Roger McGough

Roger McGough has teamed up with people as diverse as Billy Connolly, Quentin Blake and the Prime Minister, to create a unique collection of poetry for children of all ages - poems that are funny, sad, strange, amazing, but above all, short.'

The Big Book of Little Poems

The (almost) Impossible Crossword Book

Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde was described by George Bernard Shaw as "the greatest talker of his time—perhaps of all time," and the quotations included in this book lend credence to that claim. Wilde's aphorisms have found a place in the British vocabulary, and this collection, arranged in alphabetical order by subject, includes hundreds of quotations drawn from his plays, his letters, and from the memoirs of his contemporaries.

A Literary Companion

The Oscar Wilde Quotation Book

Explains how to use secret codes, including Morse, Caesar's, Sandwich, Rosicrucian, and others, as well as how to send hidden messages using invisible ink, how to take fingerprints, and other tricks and techniques.

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