Most of us are uncommitted when asked if we believe in ghosts. But Ian McLoughlin's accounts of hauntings throughout Berkshire are likely to unsettle even hardened sceptics.The county has witnessed a variety of apparitions in recent times - usually victims of tragedy or violent death. There is the elderly Thomas Barrie, who died of shock after being tortured in the stocks of Newbury's Market Place. The spectral handprint of a young boy appears on a window of the Royal Stag at Datchet; this was his last attempt to attract attention before dying of cold outside whilst his father remained inside drinking. And who is the elegant lady in a grey silk dress and lavender perfume that floats through Barrymore House at Wargrave - the home of the notorious Earl of Barrymore in the 1790s?Ian McLoughlin has brought together a fascinating collection of the Unexplained, using many first-hand accounts. His book makes chilling and compulsive reading.

What would you do if furniture threw itself downstairs and fires broke out in the cupboards? This book examines the evidence on teleportation, UFOs, psychic detectives, premonitions, and other mysteries of mind, time and space.