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Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness

Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness

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Author: Edward Abbey Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 336 'My favourite book about the wilderness' Cheryl Strayed, author of Wild In this shimmering masterpiece of American nature writing, Edward Abbey...
Meditations

Meditations

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Author: Marcus Aurelius Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 Few ancient works have been as influential as the MEDITATIONS of Marcus Aurelius. A series of spiritual exercises filled with wisdom,...
The Bone Chests: Unlocking the Secrets of the Anglo-Saxons

The Bone Chests: Unlocking the Secrets of the Anglo-Saxons

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Author: Cat Jarman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 A TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A diligent historian and a superb writer' THE TIMES From bioarchaeologist and bestselling author...
The Bone Chests: Unlocking the Secrets of the Anglo-Saxons

The Bone Chests: Unlocking the Secrets of the Anglo-Saxons

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Author: Cat Jarman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 272 A TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A diligent historian and a superb writer' THE TIMES From bioarchaeologist and bestselling author...
Arriani

Arriani

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The Nisibis War: The Defence of the Roman East, AD 337-363

The Nisibis War: The Defence of the Roman East, AD 337-363

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Author: John S Harrel Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 The war of 337-363 (which the author dubs the Nisibis War), was an exception to the traditional Roman reliance on...
Brutus of Troy: And the Quest for the Ancestry of the British

Brutus of Troy: And the Quest for the Ancestry of the British

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Author: Anthony Adolph Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 Just who did the British think they were? For much of the last 1,500 years, when the British looked back to...
Antiochus The Great

Antiochus The Great

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Author: Michael Taylor Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 A teenage king in 223 BC, Antiochus III inherited an empire in shambles, ravaged by civil strife and eroded by territorial...
Septimius Severus in Scotland: The Northern Campaigns of the First Hammer of the Scots

Septimius Severus in Scotland: The Northern Campaigns of the First Hammer of the Scots

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Author: Simon Elliott Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 'The order was brutal, its message unequivocal - kill the men, women and children of what is now Scotland and don't...
Cataclysm 90 BC: The Forgotten War That Almost Destroyed Rome

Cataclysm 90 BC: The Forgotten War That Almost Destroyed Rome

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Author: Matyszak, Philip Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 We are accustomed to think of the late Republic as a period in which Rome enjoyed almost uninterrupted military success against...
Alcibiades: Athenian Playboy, General and Traitor

Alcibiades: Athenian Playboy, General and Traitor

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Author: P J Rhodes Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 160 Alcibiades is one of the most famous (or infamous) characters of Classical Greece. A young Athenian aristocrat, he came to...
Strategist in Exile

Strategist in Exile

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Author: Rainer Nickel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 Thucydides was the chronicler of the almost 30-year long Peloponnesian war, which came to a close with Sparta's victory over Athens...
Rome, Blood and Politics: Reform, Murder and Popular Politics in the Late Republic

Rome, Blood and Politics: Reform, Murder and Popular Politics in the Late Republic

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Author: Gareth C. Sampson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 286 The last century of the Roman Republic saw the consensus of the ruling elite shattered by a series of high-profile...
Kings and Kingship in the Hellenistic World 350 - 30 BC

Kings and Kingship in the Hellenistic World 350 - 30 BC

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Author: Dr. John D. Grainger Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 262 Between c.350 BC and 30 BC the Mediterranean world was one in which kings ruled. The exceptions were the...
Military History of Late Rome 284 361

Military History of Late Rome 284 361

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Author: Ilkka Syvanne Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 464 This ambitious series gives the reader a comprehensive narrative of late Roman military history from 284-641. Each volume (5 are planned)...
Lucius Verus and the Roman Defence of the East

Lucius Verus and the Roman Defence of the East

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Author: M. C. Bishop Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 197 Lucius Verus is one of the least regarded Roman emperors, despite the fact that he was co-ruler with his adoptive...
Brutus: Caesar's Assassin

Brutus: Caesar's Assassin

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Author: Dr. Kirsty Corrigan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 192 Although Marcus Junius Brutus is one of the most famous, or infamous, conspirators of Rome and the ancient world, if...
Of Myth, Life, and War in Plato's Republic

Of Myth, Life, and War in Plato's Republic

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Author: Claudia Baracchi Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 264 Although Plato's Republic is perhaps the most influential text in the history of Western philosophy, Claudia Baracchi finds that the work...
Democracy's Beginning: The Athenian Story

Democracy's Beginning: The Athenian Story

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Author: Thomas N. Mitchell Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 A history of the world's first democracy from its beginnings in Athens circa fifth century B.C. to its downfall 200...
Attila the Hun: Arch-enemy of Rome

Attila the Hun: Arch-enemy of Rome

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Author: Hughes, Ian Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 Attila the Hun is a household name. Rising to the Hunnic kingship around 434, he dominated European history for the next...
Hannibal's Road: The Second Punic War in Italy 213-203 BC

Hannibal's Road: The Second Punic War in Italy 213-203 BC

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Author: Mike Roberts Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 262 Many books have been written on the Second Punic War and Hannibal in particular but few give much space to his...
Great Generals of the Ancient World

Great Generals of the Ancient World

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Author: Professor Richard A. Gabriel Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 264 Of the thousands of commanders who served in history's armies, why is it that only a few are remembered...
Emperor Alexander Severus: Rome's Age of Insurrection, Ad222-235

Emperor Alexander Severus: Rome's Age of Insurrection, Ad222-235

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Author: John S. McHugh Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 335 Alexander Severus' is full of controversy and contradictions. He came to the throne through the brutal murder of his cousin,...
Maximinus Thrax

Maximinus Thrax

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Author: Paul N. Pearson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 296 Maximinus was a half-barbarian strongman 'of frightening appearance and colossal size' who could smash stones with his bare hands and...
Pharaoh: King of Ancient Egypt

Pharaoh: King of Ancient Egypt

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Author: Aude Semet Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 180 A fresh look at the British Museum's celebrated and extensive ancient Egyptian collection from across three thousand years Pharaoh: King of...
Pax Romana: War, Peace and Conquest in the Roman World

Pax Romana: War, Peace and Conquest in the Roman World

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Author: Adrian Goldsworthy Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 528 The Pax Romana is famous for having provided a remarkable period of peace and stability, rarely seen before or since. Yet...
The Victor's Crown: Greek and Roman Sport from Homer to Byzantium

The Victor's Crown: Greek and Roman Sport from Homer to Byzantium

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Portals, Pilgrimage, and Crusade in Western Tuscany

Portals, Pilgrimage, and Crusade in Western Tuscany

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Between and the Beyond: Essays on the Prehistory and History of North Britain in Honour of George Jobey

Between and the Beyond: Essays on the Prehistory and History of North Britain in Honour of George Jobey

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The Rock Art of Easter Island: Symbols of Power, Prayers to the Gods

The Rock Art of Easter Island: Symbols of Power, Prayers to the Gods

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The Last Assassin

The Last Assassin

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Author: Peter Stothard Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 288 'A gripping history' Mary Beard 'A political thriller, and a human story that astonishes' Hilary Mantel 'Atmospheric and gripping, and [his]...
On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe

On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe

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Author: Caroline Dodds Pennock Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 A New Statesman Best Book of the Year 2023. A Daunt Books Book of the year 2023. Winner of the...
Roman Roads in the South-East Midlands

Roman Roads in the South-East Midlands

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Venus and Aphrodite

Venus and Aphrodite

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Author: Bettany Hughes Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 256 'Lively' THE TIMES 'Engrossing' THE SPECTATOR 'Stunning' WOMAN & HOME 'Marvellous' BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE Through ancient art, evocative myth, intriguing archaeological...
On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe

On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe

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Author: Caroline Dodds Pennock Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 We have long been taught to presume that modern global history began when the 'Old World' encountered the 'New', when...
A Grand Tour of the Roman Empire by Marcus Sidonius Falx

A Grand Tour of the Roman Empire by Marcus Sidonius Falx

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Author: Dr. Jerry Toner (Fellow Teacher and Director of Studies in Classics) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Tour the Roman Empire at its height with Marcus Sidonius Falx and...
Out Of China's Earth: Archaeological Discoveries In The People's Republic Of China

Out Of China's Earth: Archaeological Discoveries In The People's Republic Of China

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The King's Shadow: Obsession, Betrayal, and the Deadly Quest for the Lost City of Alexandria

The King's Shadow: Obsession, Betrayal, and the Deadly Quest for the Lost City of Alexandria

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Author: Lecturer in Classics Edmund Richardson (Durham University UK) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 352 A lost city. A thousand-year-old mystery. A quest that changed history. Beneath the plains of...
Exposed: The Greek and Roman Body - Shortlisted for the Anglo-Hellenic Runciman Award

Exposed: The Greek and Roman Body - Shortlisted for the Anglo-Hellenic Runciman Award

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Author: Caroline Vout Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 432 The Greek and Roman body is often seen as flawless - cast from life in buff bronze and white marble, to...
The Sea Hunters: True Adventures with Famous Shipwrecks

The Sea Hunters: True Adventures with Famous Shipwrecks

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Cannon's Point Plantation 1794-1860: Living Conditions And Status Patterns In The Old South

Cannon's Point Plantation 1794-1860: Living Conditions And Status Patterns In The Old South

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The Last Assassin

The Last Assassin

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Author: Peter Stothard Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 'A political thriller, and a human story that astonishes' Hilary Mantel Many men killed Julius Caesar. Only one man was determined...
The Silent Patient: The record-breaking, multimillion copy Sunday Times bestselling thriller and TikTok sensation

The Silent Patient

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A Year in the Life of Ancient Egypt: The Real Lives of the People Who Lived There

A Year in the Life of Ancient Egypt: The Real Lives of the People Who Lived There

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Author: Dr Donald P. Ryan Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 272 Spend a year in the company of the ancient Egyptians, during the twenty-sixth and final year of the reign...
A Grand Tour of the Roman Empire by Marcus Sidonius Falx

A Grand Tour of the Roman Empire by Marcus Sidonius Falx

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Author: Dr. Jerry Toner (Fellow Teacher and Director of Studies in Classics) Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Tour the Roman Empire at its height with Marcus Sidonius Falx and...
Black Horse Odyssey: Search for the Lost City of Rome in China

Black Horse Odyssey: Search for the Lost City of Rome in China

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God's Gold: the Quest for the Lost Temple Treasures of Jerusalem

God's Gold: the Quest for the Lost Temple Treasures of Jerusalem

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The Tomb of God: Body of Jesus and the Solution to a 2, 000 Year Old Mystery

The Tomb of God: Body of Jesus and the Solution to a 2, 000 Year Old Mystery

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