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Aemilius Valerius promised Junius Atreus a holiday, and what better place to take one than the glittering resort town of Baiae, as famous for its hot springs and ocean views as it is for its drunken debauchery and moral decay? Not that Valerius and Atreus have time to enjoy any of that, because a young patrician woman is murdered and they are tasked to find her killer.

A Best Book of the Year from The Observer Narrated by the New York Times bestselling author Natalie Haynes herself, this audiobook is an extraordinary reimagining of the myth of Medea. This is what no one tells you, in the songs sung about Jason and the Argo. This part of his quest has been...

Ayla and Jondalar leave the safety of the lands of the Mammoth Hunters and embark on a seemingly impossible journey across an entire continent. Their goal is the Cro-Magnon settlement in what is now southern France where Jondalar lived as a young man. Accompanied by the half-tame Wolf, the...

Forced to leave the Clan and her young son, Ayla sets out alone to travel the frigid steppes until she finds the valley of horses. Unable to find people like herself, the Cro-Magnons, she settles there and seeks friendship elsewhere. First she adopts a young filly, then a wounded lion cub. But...

Leaving the valley of horses with Jondalar, the handsome man she has nursed back to health and come to love, Ayla embarks on a journey that will lead her to the Mamutoi; the Mammoth Hunters. But as she settles into this new life among a people at first strange and disturbingly different, Ayla...

An der wilden Küste landen die mächtigen Legionen Roms. Für den ehrgeizigen jungen Tribun Gaius Julius Maximus stellt sich erstmals die größte Herausforderung seines Lebens. An der Seite des erfahrenen und unerbittlichen Zenturio Brutus führt er seine Männer in unbekannte Gefilde. Auf der anderen Seite erhebt sich Caratacus. Der charismatische Krieger und listige Stratege will sein Volk vor der römischen Übermacht schützen. Eine gnadenlose Schlacht entbrennt. Disziplin trifft auf Wildheit, eiserne Entschlossenheit auf grenzenlosen Freiheitswillen.

Brought to you by Penguin. From the author of The Power, winner of the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2017 IT BEGINS AND ENDS WITH A SACRIFICE... It was a time of brutal tyranny and occupation. Young men and women took to the streets to protest. Dictators put them down with iron force...

Rom, im Jahr 44 v. Chr.: Der Bürgerkrieg ist zu Ende, Gaius Julius Caesar hat auf ganzer Linie gesiegt und befindet sich auf dem Höhepunkt seiner Macht. Nicht wenige fürchten, dass er die Römische Republik beenden und sich zum König krönen könnte. Doch wie lässt sich ein Caesar aufhalten? Widerstand formiert sich, Verschwörer finden zusammen, um Caesar zu ermorden, unter ihnen Marcus Iunius Brutus.

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.

In ancient Israel, soon after Nessa is of marriageable age, her father gives her to a wealthy widowed friend, capitalizing on her beauty to bring in the highest bride-price he can find. Nessa is devastated, as she had begged to marry Lavi, who returned her love and saw more in her than her appearance. But Nessa's betrothal leads to Lavi's departure, compounding her grief, and she can never forget her forbidden first love.

Marcus Tullius Cicéron n'est alors qu'un jeune avocat, sans fortune ni famille affluente, amis avec des rêves de grandeur. Il ne vise pas moins que l'Imperium, la plus haute fonction de l'état. Mais, doté uniquement de ses talents d'orateur, comment avancer dans le monde ?

A masterful novel of war, history and political intrigue, beloved by readers. 'Vivid military action, inner circle intrigue and Dumas-style characters'⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'A++++'⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ '[Riches is] head and shoulders above his contemporaries'⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Excellent historical adventure...

** SHORTLISTED FOR THE WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021 ** Brought to you by Penguin. In this spellbinding new collection, Charlotte Higgins reinterprets some of the most enduring stories of all time. Here are myths of the creation, of Heracles and Theseus and Perseus, the Trojan war and its...

Valerio Evangelisti narra le vicende di alcune famiglie di braccianti e contadini romagnoli dall'epoca post-risorgimentale alle soglie del Novecento. Microstorie che raccontano un pezzo della storia d'Italia: la trasformazione agricola dell'Emilia, la bonifica, l'affermarsi del movimento cooperativo e socialista, la lenta e sanguinosa conquista della democrazia. Tutto viene letto con gli occhi di protagonisti solo in parte consapevoli: Attilio, ex garibaldino dalla vita misera e precaria; Rosa, vittima predestinata ma non docile del potere arrogante; Canzio, ribelle per indole.

The fate of a fractured and embattled nation hangs by a thread. Lord Beornoth, the Viking-killer lives on, beset by the ravages of age and tortured by his past. At the King's bequest he is plunged into the brutal twilight of Saxon rule, where loyalty, courage, and sacrifice are tested on blood-soaked fields. Armies clash and the throne of England becomes the ultimate prize. In the face of a Viking invasion, Beornoth faces his greatest battle in this unflinching fight through the last days of Saxon England.

In 1906, an Egyptologist uncovered a map carved in stone inside an ancient temple. Convinced that it pointed to a lost city of gold somewhere deep in the desert, he set out on another expedition the following year. He was never seen again. In present day Yale, a professor is brutally murdered on the university campus, and a mysterious artefact is stolen from its vaults.

Every stone sings as it finds its purpose. This is the lesson restless Salome learns from her father as she grows up by the Sea of Galilee. Known as the wild girl with the quick tongue, Salome is determined to silence the critics who claim she has no future. An unexpected romance and the gift of two sons, James and John, leave her hopeful and resolved to prove herself as a mother.

AD 101. Eleven years have passed since the emperor Domitian led a campaign into Dacia to chastise them for their incursions, meeting the enemy once again at Tapae, the site of an earlier battle. But Domitian is gone, now, and a new emperor sits on the throne: Trajan. This new leader of the Roman world is determined to succeed where Domitian failed: the total subjugation of Dacia.

د . نبيل فاروق إلى اجواء الفرسان فى زمن الاندلس الغابر ، حيث يواجة بطلنا الأمراء والملوك الأسبان وفرسانهم ،منتصرا على حيلهم ومخططاتهم المستمرة فى صراعهم مع العرب الأندلسين

د . نبيل فاروق إلى اجواء الفرسان فى زمن الاندلس الغابر ، حيث يواجة بطلنا الأمراء والملوك الأسبان وفرسانهم ،منتصرا على حيلهم ومخططاتهم المستمرة فى صراعهم مع العرب الأندلسين