NICK RENNISON is a writer, editor and bookseller with a particular interest in the Victorian era and in crime fiction. He is the editor of six anthologies of short stories for No Exit Press: The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes, The Rivals of Dracula, Supernatural Sherlocks, More Rivals of Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock's Sisters and American Sherlocks, plus A Short History of Polar Exploration, Peter Mark Roget: A Biography, Freud and Psychoanalysis, Robin Hood: Myth, History & Culture and Bohemian London, published by Oldcastle Books. He is also the author of The Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide to Crime Fiction, 100 Must-Read Crime Novels and Sherlock Holmes: An Unauthorised Biography. His crime novels, Carver's Quest and Carver's Truth, both set in nineteenth-century London, are published by Corvus. He is a regular reviewer for both The Sunday Times and BBC History Magazine.
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Nick Rennison: The London Blue Plaque Guide
Connecting people with places, London’s distinctive Blue Plaque scheme highlights the buildings where some of the most remarkable men and women in our history and culture have lived and worked. From …
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Nick Rennison: More Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes remains the most famous of all fictional detectives. But he was not the only solver of crimes to patrol the gaslit streets of late Victorian and Edwardian London. The years between 18 …
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Nick Rennison & Nick Rennsion: Carver’s Quest
It is 1870. When amateur archaeologist Adam Carver and his loyal but obdurate retainer Quint are visited in their lodgings in London's Doughty Street by an attractive young woman, their landlady …
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Nick Rennison & Nick Rennsion: Carver’s Truth
London, 1871. Traveller, photographer and sometime intelligencer Adam Carver is asked by a friend from the Foreign Office to find Dolly Delaney, a West End dancing girl who has been involved with a d …
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Nick Rennison: Robin Hood
Robin Hood is England’s greatest folk hero. Everyone knows the story of the outlaw who robbed from the rich and gave to the poor. Nick Rennison’s highly entertaining book begins with the search for t …
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Nick Rennison: Freud And Psychoanalysis
Freud was one of the giants of 20th century thought. His ideas have been hugely influential not only in psychology but in all the social sciences and the arts. Even those who have never read a word o …
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Nick Rennison: The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
Sherlock Holmes is the most famous fictional detective ever created. The supremely rational sleuth and his dependable companion, Dr Watson, will forever be associated with the gaslit and smog-filled …
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Nick Rennison: A Short History of Polar Exploration
According to Apsley Cherry-Garrard, one of the men who went to Antarctica with Captain Scott, ‘Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time that has ever been …
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Nick Rennison: The Rivals of Dracula
Bram Stoker's Dracula, still the most famous of all vampire stories, was first published in 1897. But the bloodsucking Count was not the only member of the undead to bare his fangs in the litera …
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Nick Rennison: Peter Mark Roget
Every day thousands of people worldwide consult Roget's Thesaurus. How many stop to consider why that endlessly useful reference book is so called? Of those who know that it owes its name to the …
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Nick Rennison: Bohemian London
London has always been home to outsiders. To people who won't, or can't, abide by the conventions of respectable society. For close to two centuries, these misfit individualists have had a …
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Nick Rennison: Supernatural Sherlocks
The ghost of a poor Afghan returns to haunt the doctor who once amputated his hand. A mysterious and malignant force inhabits a room in an ancestral home and attacks all who sleep in it. A man who de …
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Nick Rennison & Nick Rennsion: Sherlock Holmes
Ingenious, charming, informative and full of delight. – The Times Sherlock Holmes: The Unauthorized Biography blends what we already know of the great sleuth's career with carefully documented s …
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Nick Rennison: Contemporary British Novelists
Featuring a broad range of contemporary British novelists from Iain Banks to Jeanette Winterson, Louis de Bernieres to Irvine Welsh and Salman Rushdie, this book offers an excellent introductory guid …
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Nick Rennison: Contemporary British Novelists
Featuring a broad range of contemporary British novelists from Iain Banks to Jeanette Winterson, Louis de Bernieres to Irvine Welsh and Salman Rushdie, this book offers an excellent introductory guid …
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Nick Rennison: Contemporary British Novelists
Featuring a broad range of contemporary British novelists from Iain Banks to Jeanette Winterson, Louis de Bernieres to Irvine Welsh and Salman Rushdie, this book offers an excellent introductory guid …
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€33.30
Nick Rennison: 100 Must-read Prize-Winning Novels
A large number of people each year make their reading decisions on the basis of prizes like the Booker and Orange Guide to Fiction. This new title in the successful Must-Read series provides an overv …
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Nick Rennison: Sherlock Holmes
“An in-depth biography of the world’s most famous detective that will intrigue Sherlockians and non-Sherlockians alike.” —Publishers Weekly He has been called a genius …
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Travis Elborough & Nick Rennison: A Traveller’s Year
A Traveller’s Year is an anthology of extracts from diaries, journals and letters, two or three for each day of the year, on the subject of travel and exploration. The extracts convey men and women’s …
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Nick Rennison: The Book Of Lists London
Why did London Underground once employ a one-legged man to ride up and down the escalators at Earl”s Court tube station? What did Hitler plan to do with Nelson”s Column? Why is London”s only medie …
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Nick Rennison: Sherlock’s Sisters
Sherlock Holmes was the most famous detective to stride through the pages of late Victorian and Edwardian fiction, but he was not the only one. He had plenty of rivals. Some of the most memorable of …
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Stephen E. Andrews & Nick Rennison: 100 Must-read Fantasy Novels
Fantasy is one of the most visible genres in popular culture – we see the creation of magical and imagined worlds and characters in every type of media, with very strong fan bases in tow. This latest …
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Nick Rennison: 100 Must-read Historical Novels
Historical fiction is a hugely popular genre of fiction providing fictional accounts or dramatizations of historical figures or events. This latest guide in the highly successful Bloomsbury Must-Read …
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Nick Rennison & Richard Shephard: 100 Must-read Crime Novels
Want to become a crime novel buff, or expand your reading in your favourite genre? This is a good place to start! From the publishers of the popular, Good Reading Guide comes a rich selection of the …
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Nick Rennison: 100 Must-read Life-Changing Books
Novels which transform our ideas about human possibilities, biographies which celebrate the achievements of extraordinary individuals, polemical works of non-fiction which oblige us to alter our view …
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Nick Rennison: 100 Must-read Classic Novels
Want to become a classic novel buff, or expand your reading of some of the finest novels ever published? With 100 of the best titles fully reviewed and a further 500 recommended, you”ll quickly set …
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Rennison Nick Rennison: Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide
Deciding what to read next when you’ve just finished an unputdownable novel can be a daunting task. The Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide features hundreds of authors and thousands of titles, with naviga …
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Stephen E. Andrews & Nick Rennison: 100 Must-read Science Fiction Novels
‘A reliable guide to what science fiction is’ Christopher Priest, award-winning science fiction author ‘A really good introduction to the genre’ SFX Magazine ‘Perceptive and glorious’ Ian Watson, aut …
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Robert Barr: The Triumphs of Eugene Valmont
The Triumphs of Eugène Valmont (1906) is a collection of lively, enjoyable stories about a French detective resident in London. Whether dealing with a gang of anarchists in ‘The Siamese Twin of …
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Marie Belloc Lowndes: The Lodger
The Buntings are an elderly London couple who have fallen on hard times. They take in a lodger with the strange name of Mr. Sleuth, who pays handsomely for their shabby rooms. He seems to be a perfec …
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Israel Zangwill: The Big Bow Mystery
East End landlady Mrs Drabdump is alarmed when she cannot rouse her lodger Arthur Constant. She summons the assistance of her neighbour, retired Scotland Yard detective George Grodman. He breaks down …
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Nick Rennison: American Sherlocks
Sherlock Holmes is the most famous of all fictional detectives but, across the Atlantic, he had plenty of rivals. Between 1890 and 1920, American writers created dozens and dozens of crime-solvers. I …
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Nick Rennison: 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. The Ottoman Empire col …
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A London Year
A London Year is an anthology of short diary entries, one or more for each day of the year, which, taken together, provides an impressionistic portrait of life in the city from Tudor times to the twe …
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Nick Rennison: Robin Hood
An informative, lively guide through the rich mythology of Robin Hood, across all mediums Everyone knows the story of England’s greatest folk hero, the outlaw who robbed from the rich and gave to the …
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Nick Rennison: Short History of Polar Exploration
An absorbing history, bringing explorers’ tales vividly to life Apsley Cherry-Garrard, one of the men who went to Antarctica with Captain Scott, said "Polar exploration is at once the cleanest a …
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Nick Rennison: 1922
‘Seu ecletismo funcionou de forma brilhante… Uma leitura impressionante e cativante’, William Boyd, autor bestseller do The New York Times 1922 foi um ano de grandes turbulências e mudanças. Os aco …
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Nick Rennison: 1974
1974 WAS A YEAR OF MAJOR CHANGE AROUND THE WORLD. Presidents resigned, emperors were deposed, and new governments came to power. On both sides of the Atlantic, major political figures left the scene, …
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Nick Rennison: 1974
”Neste retrato vívido da história, Rennison monta um almanaque mês a mês de todos os momentos mais notáveis da ciência, política, arte e cultura’. – GUARDIAN AS RAÍZES DE MUITOS ASPECTOS DA SOCIEDAD …
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Nick Rennison: 100 Must-read Classic Novels
Want to become a classic novel buff, or expand your reading of some of the finest novels ever published? With 100 of the best titles fully reviewed and a further 500 recommended, you”ll quickly set …
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€16.20
Nick Rennison & Richard Shephard: 100 Must-read Crime Novels
Want to become a crime novel buff, or expand your reading in your favourite genre? This is a good place to start! From the publishers of the popular, Good Reading Guide comes a rich selection of the …
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€16.14
Nick Rennison: Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide
Deciding what to read next when you”ve just finished an unputdownable novel can be a daunting task. The Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide features hundreds of authors and thousands of titles , with navi …
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€17.33
Stephen E. Andrews & Nick Rennison: 100 Must-read Science Fiction Novels
‘A reliable guide to what science fiction is’ Christopher Priest, award-winning science fiction author ‘A really good introduction to the genre’ SFX Magazine ‘Perceptive and glorious’ Ian Watson, aut …
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€13.89
Stephen E. Andrews & Nick Rennison: 100 Must-read Fantasy Novels
Fantasy is one of the most visible genres in popular culture – we see the creation of magical and imagined worlds and characters in every type of media, with very strong fan bases in tow. This latest …
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€9.64
Nick Rennison & Ed Wood: 100 Must-Read American Novels
Which 100 novels represent the finest American literature ever produced? Let this book be your guide. Ordered A-Z by author this latest title in the popular Must-Read series provides a rich resource …
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€9.16
Nick Rennison: 100 Must-read Life-Changing Books
Novels which transform our ideas about human possibilities, biographies which celebrate the achievements of extraordinary individuals, polemical works of non-fiction which oblige us to alter our view …
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€16.20
Nick Rennison: 100 Must-read Prize-Winning Novels
A large number of people each year make their reading decisions on the basis of prizes like the Booker and Orange Guide to Fiction. This new title in the successful Must-Read series provides an overv …
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€13.92
Nick Rennison: 100 Must-read Historical Novels
Historical fiction is a hugely popular genre of fiction providing fictional accounts or dramatizations of historical figures or events. This latest guide in the highly successful Bloomsbury Must-Read …
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€8.46
Nick Rennison & Ed Wood: 100 Must-Read American Novels
Which 100 novels represent the finest American literature ever produced? Let this book be your guide. Ordered A-Z by author this latest title in the popular Must-Read series provides a rich resource …
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€9.24
Nick Rennison: Freud and Psychoanalysis
Freud was one of the giants of 20th century thought. His ideas have been hugely influential not only in psychology but in all the social sciences and the arts. Even those who have never read a word o …
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€4.27
Nick Rennison: Victorian Tales of the Weird
From a dancing automaton running amok at a ball, to a prehistoric beast lurking in the depths of a Yorkshire cave, this anthology explores the nature of the ‘old weird’, and unordinary stories which …
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