Civilisations

Nisha J. Tuli

Abacus

'Charming, witty, and deeply sexy' Hannah Bonam-Young, New York Times Bestselling Author 'The setting may be icy, but the chemistry between Aadya and Reid is scorching' Bailey Hannah, USA Today bestselling author of Alive and Wells The arctic heats up when a photographer who rarely holds anything back is forced to share a private wing with a grumpy lodge owner who holds everyt...

Heather Fawcett

Orbit

'WISTFUL, WARM AND IRRESISTIBLY CHARMING' Olivia Atwater, author of Half a Soul From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries comes a healing and heart-warming fantasy with magic shops, rescue cats and a second chance at love. Reader reviews: 'Amazing!'????? 'Love it!' ????? 'I wanted it to last forever!' ????? All strays are welcome here...

Jasmine Mas

Harper

HERCULES IS BACK. AND YOU'RE BOUND TO LOVE HER. In this hotly anticipated follow-up to Jasmine Mas's BLOOD OF HERCULES, the stakes are higher and the villains darker than ever... Every hero has their monsters. And Alexis is bound to hers: tied eternally, irrevocably to the Underworld's dark heirs in a marriage that has shaken the foundations of Olympus - and everything Alexis o...

Raven Kennedy

Ladybird

PRE-ORDER YOUR NEW ROMANTASY OBSESSION FROM THE GLOBAL SENSATION, RAVEN KENNEDY From the Sunday Times bestselling author of the Plated Prisoner series comes the first book in an alluring and addictive romantasy duology set in a world of fae and dark magic -- It's time to pay the Piper. Our world cracked open like an egg. Power burst out, and with it, nine monstrous Banes re...

Mark Little

Hachette

Do you remember when the internet felt like a shared playground? When strangers around the world connected over the colour of a dress?The Last Good Day on the Internet sees former foreign correspondent and tech entrepreneur Mark Little take us back to a time when the web was a place of community, curiosity and potential.Until it wasn't.Having spent nearly two decades at the hea...

Lucy Foley

Harper

The brand new Miss Marple novel from Lucy Foley, the No.1 bestselling author of The Guest List and The Midnight Feast. AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOW *** High in the Swiss Alps, with glorious mountain views and exclusive access to powdery slopes, the Grand Alpine Hotel draws guests from far and wide. The notorious actress The high-flying politician The reserved political wife The...

Mary Beard

Princeton Press

From the bestselling author of SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome, the fascinating story of how images of Roman autocrats have influenced art, culture, and the representation of power for more than 2,000 yearsWhat does the face of power look like? Who gets commemorated in art and why? And how do we react to statues of politicians we deplore? In this book—against a background of to...

Mary Beard

Serpents Tail

"Ancient Rome was an imposing city even by modern standards, a sprawling imperial metropolis of more than a million inhabitants, a "mixture of luxury and filth, liberty and exploitation, civic pride and murderous civil war" that served as the seat of power for an empire that spanned from Spain to Syria. Yet how did all this emerge from what was once an insignificant village in ...

Mary Beard

Belknap Harvard

It followed every major military victory in ancient Rome: the successful general drove through the streets to the temple of Jupiter on the Capitoline Hill; behind him streamed his raucous soldiers; in front were his most glamorous prisoners, as well as the booty he'd captured, from enemy ships and precious statues to plants and animals from the conquered territory. Occasionally...

Mary Beard

Phoenix

"Why the popular resonance of 'mansplaining' (despite the intense dislike of the term felt by many men)? It hits home for us because it points straight to what it feels like not to be taken seriously: a bit like when I get lectured on Roman history on Twitter. Britain's best known classicist Mary Beard, is also a committed and vocal feminist. With wry wit she shows how history ...

Mary Beard

Phoenix

Mary Beard is one of the world's best-known classicists - a brilliant academic, with a rare gift for communicating with a wide audience both though her books and TV presenting...In a series of sparkling essays, she explores our rich classical heritage - from Greek drama to Roman jokes, introducing some larger-than-life characters of classical history, such as Alexander the Grea...

Mary Beard

Serpents Tail

This marvellous book won the Wolfson History Prize and is a model of subtle but accessible writing about the past' Judith Rice, Guardian 'Classicist Mary Beard has had a great time rooting about that ghostly place and she has brought it quite splendidly back to life' Nicholas Bagnall, Sunday Telegraph 'To the vast field of Pompeiana she brings the human touch - this absorbing, ...