Rennison, Nick – The Bell Bookshop https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk Henley-on-Thames Fri, 28 Nov 2025 19:54:28 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/cropped-Bell-Background-Blue-32x32.png Rennison, Nick – The Bell Bookshop https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk 32 32 Victorian Tales of the Weird https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/victorian-tales-of-the-weird/ Thu, 22 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/?post_type=product&p=48647 An incredible anthology of truly fascinating Victorian tales of the supernatural.

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The anthology includes not only stories by well-known writers like Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Jerome K. Jerome, but also by long-forgotten authors such as D. F. Hannigan and Reginald Bacchus. Focusing on the idea and history of what can be classified as ‘old weird’, compared to the ‘new weird’, Rennison applies experience and knowledge of Victorian literary history to bring these supernatural tales to the surface.

]]> 1922 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/1922/ Thu, 18 Nov 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bellbookshop.co.uk/product/1922/ 1922 was a year of great turbulence and upheaval. Its events reverberated throughout the rest of the twentieth century and still affect us today, 100 years later. Empires fell. In the USA, Prohibition was at its height. The Hollywood film industry, although rocked by a series of scandals, continued to grow. A new mass medium – radio – was making its presence felt and, in Britain, the BBC was founded. The Roaring Twenties had begun to roar and the Jazz Age had arrived. In a sequence of vividly written sketches, Nick Rennison conjures up all the drama and diversity of an extraordinary year.

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