PRINCE OF PLAYERS: EDWIN BOOTH (401 pp.)—Eleanor Ruggles—Norton ($4.50). Everyone agreed that the Booths were eccentric—sometimes majestically. Take old Junius Brutus Booth (1796-1852), first of his ...

As a TEENAGER I lost countless nights’ sleep to Pan’s collections of ghostly short stories, partly because I could never stop turning the pages, partly because they were haunting, the kind of tales ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The other day my son returned from Battersea car boot sale in triumph, wearing a greatcoat that he had bought ...

Just outside the town is an abandoned airfield from which Lancaster bombers used to fly over Germany. One day Isobel finds the greatcoat of the title – the kind of coat worn by RAF officers – stuffed ...

Occasionally dubbed the ‘BOC’ (the ‘Big Ol’ Coat), the greatcoat is mighty. We’re talking full-length, heavyweight and military issue, made of dense wool plumes capable of repelling winter’s harshest ...

Todd Snyder offers a peacoat-greatcoat hybrid. If you buy from a link, we may earn a commission. Learn more Like so many pieces of everyday modern apparel, the topcoat originates in military uniforms.

Helen Dunmore recently said that people are "always very surprised" when she tells them that she has written a novella for Hammer Books. The publishing imprint is on a mission to drag the ghost story ...

Dunmore is a fine poet who has morphed into an exceptional writer of prose. Some of her novels, in my opinion, don’t come off, but when she is at her best there are few living British novelists who ...

In her Afterword, Dunmore says that her inspirations for this ghost story were The Turn of the Screw and Tom's Midnight Garden, stories which deal with the past's imprint upon the present. Her own ...