1. In Fascist Italy, Mussolini banished some 15,000 dissidents into confino, or internal exile. Among them was Carlo Levi—doctor, poet, painter and anti-Fascist—who was sent to Lucania, a ...

A standard social history book turned into an extraordinary real-life Gothic mystery when Catherine Bailey delved into the family archives at Belvoir Castle in Leicestershire.

Book review: The Secret Rooms: A True Gothic Mystery by Catherine Bailey FROM THE first page of this wonderful book, the reader enters a world which makes Downton Abbey look like Coronation Street.

This book unravels a mystery and comes as close to the truth about John Manners, ... Instead, Catherine Bailey has produced a fine, suspenseful, ...