A biography of Gaius Valerius Catullus, Rome's first great poet, a dandy who fell in love with another man's wife and made it known to the world through his verse.This superb book …
Shortlisted for the 2007 Man Booker Prize, an epic novel of startling originality which confirms Nicola Barker as one of Britain's most exciting literary talents.If history is a …
HarperCollins is proud to present a range of best-loved, essential classics.'It's a poor sort of memory that only works backward.'In Carroll's sequel to Alice's Adventures in …
The classic bestselling Chinese novel spanning four decades following the creation of the People's Republic in 1949, translated into English for the first time.Originally published …
HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.When Paris falls in love with legendary beauty Helen of Troy, the devastating effects of …
HarperCollins is proud to present a range of best-loved, essential classics.'Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to …
Longlisted for the 2014 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction (now the Bailie Gifford)'A thrilling and complex book, enlarges our view of Homer ... There's something that hits the …
From the bestselling author of 'Elizabeth and Mary', the remarkable love story of Dorothy Osborne and Sir William Temple, set against the turbulence and romance of 17th-century …
