Classics Reissued: The Essential X-Men vol. 2
/X-Men fans new and old can rejoice in this hefty re-issued collection of classic tales
Read MoreBook Review: Barn Owl
/A beautiful new book on one of the most recognizable and evocative of all birds, the barn owl
Read MoreNow in Paperback: Antony and Cleopatra
/New in paperback: an excellent dual biography of one of history's most famous couples.
Read MoreBook Review: 1066
/A sharply realistic new history of the Norman invasion and conquest of England
Read MoreBook Review: The Dovekeepers
/An ambitious historical novel (about the Jewish fortress of Masada) from a well-loved contemporary novelist
Read MoreBook Review: Exodus from the Alamo
/A revisionary new account takes a hammer to every cherished myth about the heroic last stand at the Alamo.
Read MoreBook Review: Caravaggio
/A lively new biography of the artist whose work - and life - lives on the borderland of light and dark
Read MoreBook Review: Theodora
/A lively and refreshingly blunt novel about one of the most fascinating - and polarizing - women in ancient history
Read MoreNow in Paperback: the RSC/Modern Library Shakespeare
/A new series of eye-opening Shakespeare paperbacks, suitable for bus, train, and trolley.
Read MoreChairman of the Board
/Lodestar or mirror? Passé or ne plus ultra? Elizabeth II has presided with consistency over an inconsistent age. And what have we learned of her?
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