Novedades

Central Europe, 5000BC. The first farmers are advancing across the continent from the east. The age of the hunter-gatherer in Europe is drawing to a close. When a young, Mesolithic hunter is sent into the winter forest, he has no way of knowing his rite of passage will be different from those who had gone before. But the gods have other plans. Beyond the brutal wilderness, his path will lead him to a different people. People from distant lands, moving ever closer to his. And as his journey takes him further into their world, the plight of a child and a young girl will show him where his ...

83 AD. Emperor Titus Flavius Domitianus sends his legions to Germania to crush the Chatti uprising, who are resisting the empire's northern expansion. True to form, the Romans tackle the rebellion with their usual brutality, offering no mercy to their enemies. Caught in this brutal reality is sixteen-year-old Ansgar. Amidst the chaos of battle, he’s captured by the Roman legions and taken to Rome. Though his life is initially spared, it’s only the beginning of a new and uncertain fate. In Rome, the city is alive with celebrations of the emperor’s triumph, featuring grand games. Julia,...

The Roman war machine is on the move But behind the Centurions and Legionaries, a vast support network grinds into motion mobilising a new legion towards a hostile river border, its human cogs turning across Roman society: from downtrodden bath slaves, to legionary blacksmiths trying to get through the day, from unscrupulous traders who supply food and materials to corrupt politicians with their own cynical motives. Danube Legion is the darkly amusing story of what happens behind the scenes – the chaotic, the venal, the incompetent and the corrupt.

Edward Bulwer-Lyttons "Die letzten Tage von Pompeji" ist ein historischer Roman, der die letzten Tage der Stadt Pompeji vor dem verheerenden Ausbruch des Vesuvs im Jahr 79 n. Chr. schildert. Der Roman, erstmals 1834 veröffentlicht, ist ein faszinierendes Werk, das sowohl die sozialen und kulturellen Aspekte der antiken Stadt als auch die dramatischen Ereignisse des Vulkanausbruchs beleuchtet. Bulwer-Lytton verwendet eine blumige und detailreiche Sprache, die den Leser in die Welt des antiken Pompeji eintauchen lässt.

Cleopatra: the beguiling, legendary Pharoah and Queen of Egypt - the arch seducer who used her beauty to grasp for ever more power. But with her character only ever recorded by men who despised her, how can we be sure this was the real story? From the lauded author of Fair Rosaline: a powerful, unmissable untelling, unravelling Shakespeare's Roman plays to draw out the woman behind the myth.