At Day's CloseFrom blanket fairs to night kings, curfews to crime, At Day's Close is an intriguing and captivating investigation into the night. Until now, this rich and complex universe in which we spend nearly half of our lives was a world long lost to historians. Here, Ekirch explores how the night was lived in the past, through travel accounts, memoirs, letters, folklore, poems, court records and coroner's reports. More than this, it is a passionate argument in

Anthony Peardew has spent half his life lovingly collecting lost objects

The book provides the background to qualification

Mary asks: if women aren't perceived to be within the structures of power

even in the darkest of days

Mma Ramotswe knows she is very lucky indeed

These are their inspiring stories

by Camille Saint-Saëns

author of The Liar's Chair

but so was Matt's love of politics

these anomalies transport us to faraway regions of the world

It's where we have found evidence of our past and may

Her people don't trust her