162821 The Book of Phobias and Manias: A History of the World in 99 Obsessions Paperback by Kate Summerscale

Plunge into this rich and thought-provoking A-Z compendium to discover how our fixations have taken shape, from the Middle Ages to the present day, as bestselling author Kate Summerscale deftly traces the threads between the past and present, the psychological and social, the personal and the political.