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Hercule Poirot's Christmas
Experience the chilling tale of Hercule Poirot's Christmas, a gripping murder mystery by Agatha Christie, dramatised by Michael Bakewell. Se…
Unmade Movies: Hitchcock's The Blind Man
Unmade Movies: Hitchcock’s The Blind Man is an adaptation of Alfred Hitchcock and Ernest Lehman’s unfinished screenplay, completed by Mark G…
The Blind Man
The Blind Man is a gripping drama featuring Hugh Laurie as Larry Keating, a renowned blind jazz pianist who undergoes a radical eye transpla…
Hawaiian Sea Hunt Mystery
Adventure series in exotic locations. This adventure is set in the exotic Island of Hawaii and involves the search for a missing sloop and …
Brazilian Gold Mine Mystery
Mystery adventure, fiction ( Peter Thomlinson). This is a very exciting and gripping story set in the jungles of Brazil and Venezuela, and t…
The Mystery of the Chinese Ring
The Mystery of the Chinese Ring is an exotic adventure story and is set in locations such as Burma and China, with the historical and politi…
The War That Will End War
.About the First World War, and the author's conclusions. Whether or not you agree with these articles/essays, H G Wells does make many vali…
The Book of All Power
The Book of All Power by Edgar Wallace is set in London at the beginning, and then the action moves to Russia. The story covers the period f…
Mystery of the Ambush in India
Another Biff Brewster adventure story set this time in exotic and mystical India with much of the action around and near the Himalayas. This…
Mystery of the Caribbean Pearls
The Mystery of the Caribbean Pearls is a Biff Brewster story full of adventure and intrigue. Biff Brewster meets up by accident with Derek, …
The Clue of the Twisted Candle
Detective mystery story set in London, with some romance, and intriguing plot. - Summary by Peter Thomlinson
The Loves of Great Composers
Gustav Kobbe was a German/US music critic who worked at the time of Liszt and Wagner in particular, and was clearly in the Wagnerian rather …
The Fortune of the Rougons
The Fortune of the Rougons (French: La Fortune des Rougon), originally published in 1871, is the first novel in Émile Zola's monument…
The Origin and Development of Psychoanalysis
A series of lectures given in the USA by Freud in German, later translated into English - Summary by Peter Tucker
Evolution Creatrice
Creative Evolution (French: L'Évolution créatrice) is a 1907 book by French philosopher Henri Bergson. Its English translation…
Là-bas
The plot of Là-Bas concerns the novelist Durtal, who is disgusted by the emptiness and vulgarity of the modern world. He seeks relief…
Job
Job was a prosperous landowner who encountered a series of misfortunes, leading him to question himself and his relation to his God. A gran…
A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge
A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge (commonly called Treatise when referring to Berkeley's works) is a 1710 work, in Eng…
The Lay of the Last Minstrel
An aging minstrel seeks who hospitality at Newark Castle and in recompense tells a tale of a sixteenth-century Border feud. In the poem, Lad…