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Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ considered "the most influential Christian book of the nineteenth century". It became a best-selling American novel and remained at the top of the bestseller lists until the publication of Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind.The story recounts in descriptive detail the adventures of Judah Ben-Hur, a fictional Jewish prince from Jerusalem who is enslaved by the Romans at the beginning of the 1st century and becomes a charioteer and a Christian.

Early 11th Century CE. Chōḷa dancer Nakkan Maduravāsaki decides to undertake the royal assignment at Capital city Thanjāvūr big temple and starts her journey from Tiruvidaimarudur. She is afraid that her long buried past, which has been haunting her for a while, is waiting to unravel...

Early 11th Century CE. Tamiḷ Nādu. Chōḷa capital Thanjāvūr has just witnessed a chilling assassination attempt on emperor Rājarāja Chōḷa's life. While the motive and identity of the assassins are unclear, evidences suggest that the plot might have been hatched from Chēra country -...

'CLAIRE NORTH BRINGS A POWERFUL, FRESH AND UNFLINCHING VOICE TO ANCIENT MYTH' Jennifer Saint, author of Sunday Times bestseller Ariadne Following the critically acclaimed Ithaca and House of Odysseus comes the final novel in Claire North's Songs of Penelope trilogy - an exquisite, gripping tale...

Song of great sorrow. Even greater love. Lost between the timeless lines of Homer’s epic, the women of Troy finally stand to be counted. Their story is one you’ve never encountered, and it will change the fate of Troy forever. Andromache has proven herself a capable leader, but can she...

'SPARKLES LIKE UNEARTHED TREASURE' KALIANE BRADLEY 'A MESMERISING NOVEL' OBSERVER 'AN IRIDESCENT CONTEMPORARY FOLKTALE' LUCY ROSE Rich, wild and shimmering with mystery, Bog Queen is the new novel from Anna North, bestselling author of Reese's Book Club Pick Outlawed In 2018, a young forensic...

“Reinterprets two of Sophocles’ Theban plays, Oedipus Tyrannus and Antigone. . . . the alternating structure proves powerful.”—The New Yorker “A passionate and gripping account of a famously dysfunctional family. Haynes balances a fresh take on the material with a deep love for her...

Lavinia never asked to be fought over. But now Turnus, her childhood sweetheart, has waged a war that threatens to destroy all she holds dear, because Lavinia's father has promised her to somebody else. Aeneas, rumoured to be the son of Venus, is famed for his bravery, cunning and his vision for a new great Empire. He is also secretive, slippery, and Lavinia wonders why he will never discuss the past he left behind. So when a stranger arrives in the camp with stories about Aeneas that suggest he is not what she seems, Lavinia realises she has to take her future into her own hands.

The heroic story of the only female Argonaut, told by Jennifer Saint, the bestselling author of ELEKTRA and ARIADNE. When a daughter is born to the King of Arcadia, she brings only disappointment. Left exposed on a mountainside, the defenceless infant Atalanta, is left to the mercy of a passing...

THE ANCIENT GREEK STAGE BROUGHT THRILLINGLY TO LIFE BY THE QUEEN OF HISTORICAL FICTION, PERFECT FOR FANS OF THE WOMEN OF TROY AND THE ODYSSEY 'Mary Renault is a shining light' HILARY MANTEL 'Mary Renault's portraits of the ancient world are fierce, complex and eloquent' MADELINE MILLER The...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE From the #1 internationally bestselling author of Conclave and Dictator, a gripping tale of ancient Rome’s descent into dictatorship “Thrilling. . . . Agrippa is a swift-paced romp. . . . Politics may be ‘a filthy business,’ as Agrippa...

Set on a Bengali noble's estate in 1908, this is both a love story and a novel of political awakening. The central character, Bimala, is torn between the duties owed to her husband, Nikhil, and the demands made on her by the radical leader, Sandip. Her attempts to resolve the irreconciliable...

« Les histoires, tels des serpents, nous glissent souvent entre les doigts. » Inanna a tout d'une impossibilité. La première Anunnaki de plein sang née sur Terre, dans l'antique Mésopotamie. Couronnée déesse de l'amour par ses douze pairs immortels vénérés dans tout Sumer. Promise à...

The Romans have landed in Britain. The invasion is over, but the war has just begun. The legions march inland, but progress is slow, hampered by vast, ancient forests, swamps and treacherous rivers that must be crossed. But, guided by traitorous Celts blinded by self-interest, progress they do...

This tale begins on Aymara tribal lands in the Altiplano region of northern Chile and flows from the still untamed and time frozen Andes Highlands, down to a developing industrialized coastline, following the apocalyptic fallout of World War Two. Book One of this Twelve Pelican trilogy is simply...

Long before the songs turned him into a monument, Beowulf was a young man with a boat, a name to earn, and a rumor of a monster in another king's hall. This is the old story in a plain-spoken new voice. The mead-benches still smell of smoke. Grendel still comes in the dark. The mother still drags her grief up out of the mere. A dragon still wakes for a stolen cup, fifty winters later. But the poetry has been cleared away so you can hear the men underneath—tired, funny, afraid, and standing anyway. A young hero. Fifty quiet winters on a throne. One last fire in the hills.

Experience the stories of these ordinary men who were called by God to be used in extraordinary ways through this series of first-person biblical fiction novellas. This curated bundle includes three books in this series - hand picked for their themes of purpose, both during their time and for...

Long before Perseus became one of Greece's greatest heroes, there was a prophecy, a king consumed by fear, and a monster whose gaze could turn the strongest warrior to stone. In The Gorgon's Head, Nathaniel Hawthorne breathes new life into one of the most enduring legends of Greek mythology...

Bestselling author Annalee Newitz invites us to explore a large and not-so-lonely universe in this science fiction adventure about what happens when the alien becomes familiar–and beloved. Gardenpath is a graduate student. They also happen to be an amoeba–a slime mold, to be exact–from an...

Even in the most advanced human civilizations, true warriors must be able to separate themselves from the status of prey. For an aspiring Azaarian herald, that crucible begins as a naked warrior cast into the wilderness with nothing more than their own extremities and intellect to survive. While...