From the July 1998 Issue One of Literature’s Greatest Liars Lord Byron’s Jackal: A Life of Edward John Trelawny By David Crane
From the May 2000 Issue Further Thoughts of a Funeral Director Bodies in Motion and at Rest By Thomas Lynch LR
From the July 1997 Issue Remembering Loved Ones By Their Smell The Changing Face of Death: Historical Accounts of Death and Disposal By Peter C Jupp and Glennys Howarth (ed) LR
From the September 1991 Issue They All Enjoyed a Good Hanging The London Hanged: Crime and Civil Society in the Eighteenth Century By Peter Linebaugh LR
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From the June 2008 Issue A Final Sparkle The Dying Game: A Curious History of Death By Melanie King Mortal Coil: A Short History of Living Longer By David Boyd Haycock Easeful Death: Is There a Case for Assisted Dying? By Mary Warnock & Elisabeth Macdonald LR
From the February 2008 Issue Will We Live Forever? The Living End: The Future of Death, Aging and Immortality By Guy Brown LR
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