Karl Galinsky Grand political accomplishment and artistic productivity were the hallmarks of Augustus Caesar's reign (31 B.C. to A.D. 14), which has served as a powerful model of achievement for...

John Williams   A brilliant and beautifully written novel in the tradition of Robert Graves, Augustus is a sweeping narrative that brings vividly to life a compelling cast of historical...

Benjamin Franklin The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin distills the complex and passionate intellectual strivings of the man whom David Hume called the first philosopher and great man of letters of the...

Anthony Trollope   Set in mid-Victorian England, this novel follows the fight for ascendancy among the clergy and dependants of a great English cathedral. 477 pages, Mass Market Paperback Published...

Charles DickensCharles Dickens’s first historical novel–set during the anti-Catholic riots of 1780–is an unparalleled portrayal of the terror of a rampaging mob, seen through the eyes of the individuals swept...

Doris LessingFrom Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, the sequel to one of her most celebrated novels, ‘The Fifth Child’.‘The Fifth Child’, Doris Lessing’s 1988 novel, made...

Stefan Zweig Stefan's Zweig's Beware of Pity is an almost unbearably tense and powerful tale of unrequited love and the danger of pity. The famous novel is published by Pushkin...

Author: Edmund Crispin Who burglarised the train heading for Victoria Station, and whatever became of its conductor?Did the village idiot or Mrs Foley murder the mean-spirited Edgar Foley, or could...

G Ernest Wright January 1, 1960 by Westminster Press

Dirk Gringhuis The Building of the World's Biggest Bridge Published January 1, 1959

EL DoctorowIn 1930's New York, Billy Bathgate, a fifteen-year-old highschool dropout, has captured the attention of infamous gangster Dutch Schultz, who lures the boy into his world of racketeering. The...

Sebastian Faulks Published to international critical and popular acclaim, this intensely romantic yet stunningly realistic novel spans three generations and the unimaginable gulf between the First World War and the...