Thousands of pieces of correspondence, many still unopened, were stored away by Dutch postmaster and are now being examined by academics.
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Beyond the pall… how London fog seeped into fiction
No representation of Sherlock Holmes or Jack the Ripper would be complete without fog. Switch on the fog machine and light a dim gas lamp in the street and you have immediately told viewers what to expect.
But for many writers London fog was much more than a simple scene-setting device.
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An unlikely spot for 180 bookstores
Tired of an unsatisfying telecomm career, this Tokyo resident stumbled on a simple idea that would turn his passion for books into a new lease on life.
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Tooth problem
This Wednesday, when I was on my way back on the bus, a sharp pain just hit one of my teeth and spread all over that side of the face. A really awful pain. When I got home I tried every pain killer I had, but nothing worked. After a sleepless night, with awful pain, I called the dentist and was able to go there the same day.
He wasn’t able to find anything wrong with my tooth and just sent me home with ‘stronger’ painkillers. Those didn’t help either.
After another sleepless night I went to the doctor. He was able to find a crack in my tooth. To prove it to me, who actually felt the pain all the time, he pressed the tooth really hard and I almost fainted from the pain. Very nice of him – not.
The best thing was that he actually prescribed new pain killers for me, morphine based one, actually work. The only downside to them is that they are giving me a headache. One that I can’t get rid of since I think it wouldn’t be good to mix these strong meds with other meds.
On Ada Lovelace Day, here are seven other pioneering women in tech
Celebrating the Victorian thought to be the first computer programmer, a look at other female innovators – from gamers to coders to Hollywood stars.
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Library builder’s monument of books
At some point this year, a child somewhere in the developing world became the ten millionth beneficiary of Room to Read, a non-profit organisation created 15 years ago after a high-flying Microsoft executive quit his job to help children in Nepal.
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Suffragettes – The best badass girls in teen fiction
To celebrate the release of the film Suffragette, we’ve compiled a list of our favourite YA books that explore the thrilling, dangerous and revolutionary world of the suffrage movement – from Jacqueline Wilson’s Opal Plumstead to Cat Winters’ The Cure For Dreaming.
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UK-based Romanian author’s first novel in English becomes a sensation
Murder mystery The Book of Mirrors, snapped up by publishers in 18 countries, is expected to make Eugene Chirovici a seven-figure sum
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Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries
Miss Fisher is vibrant and sexy and cheeky and worldly. She has travelled the globe and picked up shocking habits (not least wearing trousers).
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