Visigothic Spain 409 - 711

Jasmine Mas

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

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

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...

Nneka. Oluoha

"A powerful exploration of the consequences of mental health issues being silenced due to cultural expectations and trauma comparison." -Paria Hassouri, award-winning author of Harvesting Rosewater and Found in TransitionHow do you ask for help when your whole life has been built around pretending you're fine?Nkem Nzenwa has everything that should make a woman happy: a successf...

Laurie Gilmore

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Dream Harbor series, comes a new small-town romance set in the quirky town of Maple Hollow. The darker the woods, the bigger the secrets... Ruby Bellerose lives on the edge of the woods, in a cottage more akin to a fairy tale than modern day life. Her love life is practically non-existent, and she keeps away from the whisper...

William Boyd

Cold War Moscow is a place smouldering with secrets. Gabriel Dax has been tasked with delivering a mysterious Blanco drawing to celebrated defector Kit Caldwell. But Caldwell is convinced the KGB suspects him of treachery, and he wants out now. When Gabriel is ordered by his enigmatic handler Faith Green to help, he is pulled into a web of shifting loyalties and dangerous esca...

Roger Collins

CALIPHS AND KINGS: SPAIN, 796-1031 The last twenty-five years have seen a renaissance of research and writing on Spanish history. Caliphs and Kings offers a formidable synthesis of existing knowledge as well as an investigation into new historical thinking, perspectives, and methods. The nearly three-hundred-year rule of the Umayyad dynasty in Spain (756-1031) has been hailed b...

Roger Collins

Roger Collins offers an account of the entire arc of papal history, describing how its authority was acquired & exercised, & in turn, challenged & threatened; how it faced & overcame crises - both from within & without; its relationship with Rome; the tradition of artistic patronage; & the character & policies of individual popes. ...

Roger Collins

This history of Spain in the period between the end of Roman rule and the time of the Arab conquest challenges many traditional assumptions about the history of this period. Presents original theories about how the Visigothic kingdom was governed, about law in the kingdom, about the Arab conquest, and about the rise of Spain as an intellectual force. Takes account of new do...

Roger Collins

This book, now available in paperback, is a challenging and controversial account of the history of Spain in the eighth century. In it Roger Collins assesses the political and cultural impact on Spain of the first hundred years of Arab rule, focusing upon aspects of continuity and discontinuity with Visigoth Spain. ...