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Augustus Caesar, the first emperor of Rome (27 BC AD 14), brought peace and prosperity to his city after decades of savage civil war. This selection from Cassius Dio's Roman History gives the...

Los mejores libros jamás escritos.«Nuestra imaginación es la que ve yno los ojos.»Marianela es una joven pobre, deforme y menospreciada por todo el mundo. Solo encuentra consuelo y un hombro sobre...

In Silverview John le Carré turns his focus to the world that occupied his writing for the past sixty years - the secret world itself. Julian Lawndsley has renounced his high-flying job in the City...

Los mejores libros jamás escritos.«Más vale el buen ocio que elnegocio. No tenemos cosa nuestra sino el tiempo.»Gracián es, junto aLope de Vega, una de las últimas figuras del barroco literario...

Los mejores libros jamás escritosEl presente volumen recoge las dosprimeras colecciones de relatos del canon holmesiano: Las aventuras de Sherlock Holmes (1892) y Las memorias de Sherlock Holmes...

What if Britain had stayed out of the First World War? What if Germany had won the Second? How would England look if there had been no Cromwell? What would the world be like if Communism had never...

Tennyson had a life-long interest in the legend of King Arthur and after the huge success of his poem "Morte d'Arthur" he built on the theme with this series of twelve poems, written in...

Discover the truth behind the myth in The Complete Jack the Ripper aby Paul Begg and John Bennett. Whitechapel, 1988: a spate of brutal murders becomes the most notorious criminal episode in...

From the author of Crashed comes a gripping short history of how Covid-19 ravaged the global economy, and where it leaves us nowWhen the news first began to trickle out of China about a new virus...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE ELIZABETH LONGFORD PRIZE FOR HISTORICAL BIOGRAPHY 2017 'A deeply original and illuminating account of Marx's journey through the intellectual history of the nineteenth...

Los mejores libros jamás escritosEl presente volumen recoge las cuatro novelas protagonizadas por Sherlock Holmes, el emblemático yperspicaz detective del 221 B de Baker Street: Estudio en...

The thinkers of ancient Egypt, Greece and India recognized that numbers governed much of what they saw in their world and hence provided an approach to its divine creator. Robert Lawlor sets out...

A fully revised and updated new edition of this accessible introduction to the beginnings of philosophy.

Memento Mori takes the reader on a ghoulish but beautiful tour of some of the world's more unusual sacred sites and traditions, in which human remains are displayed for the benefit of the...

'A landmark piece of non-fiction' Janet Maslin, The New York TimesFrom the winner of the Pulitzer Prize, this is one of the great untold stories of American history: the migration of black...

If you can't prove something, it is literally senseless - so argues Ayer in this irreverent and electrifying book. Statements are either true aby definition (as in maths), or can be verified...

A comprehensive guide to the deities of ancient Egypt: their origins and their central role in the lives of the Egyptian peopleWorshipped for over three-fifths of recorded history, Egypt’s gods and...

Pre-order the funniest memoir of 2021*, written żeby the most relatable woman in the world - Daisy May Cooper, creator and star of BBC's award-winning comedy This Country'Thank goodness for...

When her husband Harry walks out after just six months, a girls' weekend away with two friends seems like just what Sam needs. But they aren't even halfway to their destination when things...

Takes the story from its origins with Defoe, Swift and Fielding to the 'golden age' of the fin de siecle and Edwardian period. Includes rare finds, surprises and oddities.

Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon find themselves in deep waters as they try to stop a war that would engulf the entire continent of Asia. A search for an art collection worth half a billion...

What do you get if you mix together two best friends, a witch's curse and a haunted house? A spell-binding mystery from acclaimed performer and bestselling author Carrie Hope Fletcher - star of...

A propulsive and dazzling debut novel set against the backdrop of the Chinese Exclusion Act, about a Chinese girl fighting to claim her place in the 1880s American West Daiyu never wanted to be...