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Odyssey
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Setting sail, hero Odysseus dreams of lying in the arms of his beloved wife Penelope, and of teaching his son Telemachus a warrior's ways. However, gods toy with the desires of little mortals. Angered by this upstart's presumption, Poseidon - God of the ocean realms - curses our hero to wander the ...
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Setting sail, hero Odysseus dreams of lying in the arms of his beloved wife Penelope, and of teaching his son Telemachus a warrior's ways. However, gods toy with the desires of little mortals. Angered by this upstart's presumption, Poseidon - God of the ocean realms - curses our hero to wander the seas for ten long years. Encountering one-eyed giants, six-headed monsters, terrible storms, titanic whirlpools, hypnotic sirens, seductive witches and jealous goddesses, Odysseus is tempted and tormented beyond any man's endurance. Yet he is no mere mortal - and the lure of his wife and son draws him, step by step, stroke by stroke, ever closer to home and his destiny...
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The Museum Of Witchcraft
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Welcome to The Museum of Witchcraft, an eclectic exploration of witchcraft and magic through 100 objects, practices and symbols. Every sense is tingling. Even the dust here is rich, imbued with the past. It's cold, and quiet, so why don't you feel completely alone? On your skin, you can feel the su...
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<p><b>Welcome to <i>The Museum of Witchcraft, </i>an eclectic exploration of witchcraft and magic through 100 objects, practices and symbols. </b><br/><br/>Every sense is tingling. Even the dust here is rich, imbued with the past. It's cold, and quiet, so why don't you feel completely alone? On your skin, you can feel the subtle caress of the power in the objects here. It makes the hairs on the back of your neck stand up. You are beginning to understand that witches have power...<br/><br/>From cauldrons, candles and curses to Tarot, trees and toads, this book is a fascinating tour of the occult, exploring the icons, artifacts and traditions that have stirred fear and fascination for centuries. With magical bespoke illustrations and text written by an expert in witchcraft and the supernatural, <i>The Museum of Witchcraft</i> is a beautifully illustrated almanac of all things esoteric.</p>
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Holding The Line
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AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOW From the multi-million copy bestselling author Demon Copperhead: a true story of female-led resilience during the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983 - now available for the first time in the UK. '[Kingsolver] means to save us by telling us stories . . . She comes closer th...
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<p></p><b>AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOW</b><br/><br/><b>From the multi-million copy bestselling author <i>Demon Copperhead</i>: a true story of female-led resilience during the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983 - now available for the first time in the UK.<br/><br/>'[Kingsolver] means to save us by telling us stories . . . She comes closer than anyone else I know.' ANNE PATCHETT</b><br/><br/><b>'Clear and emotional . . . This is a report from the trenches of where the political meets the personal.' JOHN SAYLES</b><br/><br/>It was the summer of 1983. Barbara Kingsolver had a day job as a scientific writer spending weekends cutting her teeth as a freelance journalist when she landed an assignment at a constellation of small, strike-gripped mining towns strung out across southern Arizona. Her mission was to cover the Phelps Dodge mine strike.<br/><br/>Over the year that followed Kingsolver stood with those miners and their families, increasingly engaged and heartbroken, as they cried out to a wide world that either refused to believe what was happening to them, or didn't care, or simply could not know.<br/><br/>Kingsolver recorded stories of striking miners and their stunningly courageous wives, sisters, daughters. Sometimes visiting them in jail, witnessing the outrageous injustices they suffered. She saw rights she'd taken for granted denied to people she had learned to care about.<br/><br/>This book is not precisely about the mine strike of 1983, and not at all about copper. It is the true story of the families who held the line, and of Kingsolver's commitment to tell the story of the women and girls who discovered themselves in their fight to keep their families from destitution.<br/><br/><i>Made in Dagenham </i>meets <i>Erin Brockovich, </i>this book is about the sparks that fly when the flint of force strikes against human mettle.<br/><br/><b>FROM THE WINNER OF THE PULITZER AND WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2023</b>
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The Last Dynasty
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A definitive and thrilling new account of the last great dynasty of ancient Egypt, from Alexander the Great to Cleopatra. When Alexander the Great arrived in Egypt, he overthrew the hated Persian overlords and was welcomed as a saviour. He repaid them by showing due reverence to their long-held tra...
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<b>A definitive and thrilling new account of the last great dynasty of ancient Egypt, from Alexander the Great to Cleopatra. </b> When Alexander the Great arrived in Egypt, he overthrew the hated Persian overlords and was welcomed as a saviour. He repaid them by showing due reverence to their long-held traditions. After his death, as the Greek empire broke up and his closest advisers squabbled over the spoils, a Macedonian general named Ptolemy seized the Egyptian throne, ushering in a new dynasty that would last for 300 years. What followed was as dramatic and compelling as any period in Egyptian history. The unique blend of Greek and Egyptian cultures led to an unprecedented flowering of learning, as the new city of Alexandria became home to the Great Library, the largest in the ancient world, that attracted the brightest minds. <b>Wars, incest, double-dealing, foreign empires and huge wealth all followed</b>, but the rise of the Roman empire would eventually bring the Ptolemaic era crashing to a close. Helped by the latest archaeological discoveries and using original papyrus documents, Toby Wilkinson uncovers a story that can only now be fully told. From courtly life to the role of women, from international trade to the tensions between native Egyptians and incoming Greeks, all aspects of life are here. <b>Filled with surprising insights, vivid descriptions and larger-than-life characters, and written in the author's compelling narrative style, <i>The Last Dynasty</i> will appeal to all lovers of history, archaeology, art and culture.</b>
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The Children Of Athena
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A compelling and fascinating portrait of the continuing intellectual tradition of Greek writers and thinkers in the Age of Rome. In 146 BC, Greece yielded to the military might of the Roman Republic; sixty years later, when Athens and other Greek city-states rebelled against Rome, the general Luciu...
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<b>A compelling and fascinating portrait of the continuing intellectual tradition of Greek writers and thinkers in the Age of Rome.</b> In 146 BC, Greece yielded to the military might of the Roman Republic; sixty years later, when Athens and other Greek city-states rebelled against Rome, the general Lucius Cornelius Sulla destroyed the city of Socrates and Plato, laying waste to the famous Academy where Aristotle had studied. However, the traditions of Greek cultural life would continue to flourish during the centuries of Roman rule that followed, in the lives and work of a distinguished array of philosophers, doctors, scientists, geographers, travellers and theologians. Charles Freeman's accounts of such luminaries as the physician Galen, the geographer Ptolemy and the philosopher Plotinus are interwoven with contextual 'interludes' that showcase a sequence of unjustly neglected and richly influential lives. Like the author's <i>The Awakening</i>, <i>The Children of Athena</i> is a cultural history on an epic scale: the story of a rich and vibrant tradition of Greek intellectual inquiry across a period of more than five hundred years, from the second century BC to the start of the fifth century AD.
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November 1942
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**A Telegraph Best History Book of 2023* 'An astonishing achievement' ANTONY BEEVOR An intimate history of the most important month of the Second World War as experienced by those who lived through it, completely based on their diaries, letters and memoirs. At the beginning of November 1942, it loo...
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<p><b>**A <i>Telegraph</i> Best History Book of 2023*<br/><br/>'An astonishing achievement' </b>ANTONY BEEVOR<br/><br/><b>An intimate history of the most important month of the Second World War as experienced by those who lived through it, completely based on their diaries, letters and memoirs.</b><br/><br/>At the beginning of November 1942, it looked as if the Axis powers could win the war; at the end of that month, it was obviously just a matter of time before they would lose.<br/><br/>In between came el-Alamein, Guadalcanal, the French North Africa landings, the Japanese retreat in New Guinea, and the Soviet encirclement of the German 6th Army at Stalingrad. In this innovatively kaleidoscopic and riveting historical marvel, Peter Englund reduces these epoch-making events to their basic component: the individual experience.<br/><br/>In thirty memorable days we meet characters including a Soviet infantryman at Stalingrad; an Italian truck driver in the North African desert; a partisan in the Belarussian forests; a machine gunner in a British bomber; a twelve-year-old girl in Shanghai; a university student in Paris; a housewife on Long Island; a prisoner in Treblinka; Albert Camus, Vasily Grossman, and Vera Brittain. We also witness the launch of <i>SS James Oglethorpe</i>; the fate of U-604, a German submarine; the building of the first nuclear reactor; and the making of <i>Casablanca.</i><br/><br/><b>Not since Englund's own <i>The Beauty and the Sorrow </i>has a book given us one of the most dramatic periods of human history in all its immensity and emotional range.</b><br/><br/><b>'Thought-provoking' </b><i>SUNDAY TIMES</i><br/><b>'Thoroughly worth reading' </b><i>TELEGRAPH</i></p>
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