Western China, 1196: Yun Cai, a handsome and adored poet in his youth, is now an old man, exiled to his family estates. All that is left to him are regrets of a growing sense of... Læs mere
On Christmas Eve in snow-covered Santa Fe, New Mexico, tens of thousands of pedestrians stroll through its festively decorated streets. Among them is Paul Kagan, a spy on... Læs mere
Western China, 1196: Yun Cai, a handsome and adored poet in his youth, is now an old man, exiled to his family estates. All that is left to him are regrets of a growing sense of... Læs mere
Mary Todd Lincoln the 'First Lady' is a figure of some notoriety in the USA. She is incarcerated in an insane asylum after committal proceedings instigated by her own son. This book tells her own story.
Leo Rawling was an ordinary soldier captured by the Japanese in 1942. His story is told in his own pictures and... Læs mere
The second in Laura Purcell's captivating and acclaimed series of novels chronicling the lives and loves of the consorts and mistresses of Britain's rash and reckless Hanoverian kings.
Under the Flavian Emperors the Roman public's hunger for gladiatorial combat has never been greater. The Emperor Domitian's passion for novelty and variety in the arena has given rise to a very different kind of warrior: the Gladiatrix
Wanna Cook? explores the most critically lauded series on television with analyses of the individual episodes and ongoing storylines. From... Læs mere
Tea... a beverage brewed from the fermented dried leaves of the shrub Camellia sinensis and imbibed by all the great civilisations in the galaxy's history; without which the... Læs mere