'Brilliant and discursive'Antonia Fraser, Sunday Times

THE TIMES BIOGRAPHY OF THE DECADE WINNER OF THE 2013 SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION WINNER ...

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Cleopatra : la mujer, la reina, la leyenda

From the author of the ?sophisticated and erudite? Peculiar Ground (Boston Globe) comes a collect...

Suzanne Cooper

'From the winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize, an extraordinary story of the meteoric rise and fa...

It is the seventeenth century, and a wall is being raised around Wychwood, transforming the great...

Beginning beneath the walls of Troy and culminating in 1930s Europe, a magisterial exploration of...

Not since Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber have old stories been made to feel so electrically new.

'This is a gripping book... A fascinating account of the way in which succeeding generations have...

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