When Banger Peyton-Crumbe's rifle explodes during a pheasant shoot, removing half his head, the last thing anyone could expect would be that he would return to life as one of the very birds he so l
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Following the life of Professor Dr Moritz-Maria von Igelfeld (whose surname means hedgehog-field), Alexander McCall Smith's latest novel begins with the Professor attempting to correct an error in
This is a monograph on two of the biggest names of the 20th Century: Harry Houdini, the escapologist, and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the inventor of the greatest detective in literature. The boo
