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Leadership and Statecraft
Machiavellis observation om ledarskapets svåra balansgång är lika relevant i vår tid med förnyade militära, ekonomiska och kulturella konflikter, som den en gång var i 1500-talets …
In the Shadow of Vesuvius
Ash spewed into the sky. All eyes were on Vesuvius. Pliny the Elder sailed towards the phenomenon. A teenage Pliny the Younger waited. His uncle did not come back.
The Missing Thread: A Women's History of the Ancient World
Of Gods and Men
A rigorously and imaginatively researched anthology of classical literature, bringing together one hundred stories from the rich diversity of the literary canon of ancient Greece …
Not Far From Brideshead
Oxford thought it was at war. And then it was. After the horrors of the First World War, Oxford looked like an Arcadia - a dreamworld - from which pain could be shut out. Soldiers …
Catullus' Bedspread
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 …
Missing Thread
A vivid portrait of the ancient world that illuminates the stories of the women so often pushed to history's sidelines
Missing Thread
The Odyssey in 1,000 Pieces
Odysseus’ ten-year homecoming in 1,000 pieces: dive into Homer's timeless epic with this jigsaw puzzle and concertina fold-out. Homer’s Odyssey, predating the invention of writing …
In the Shadow of Vesuvius
'Never less than compelling ... She consistently succeeds in bringing what might otherwise seem dusty and remote to vivid life' Tom Holland, Literary Review'Starts with an erupting …
Not Far From Brideshead
A real-life Brideshead Revisited that will appeal to fans of Evelyn Waugh, P. G. Wodehouse and Nancy Mitford