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Annals by Cornelius Tacitus
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $17.54A compelling new translation of Tacitus' Annals, one of the greatest accounts of ancient Rome, by Cynthia Damon.Tacitus' Annals recounts the major historical events from the years shortly before the... -
Henry VI Part One by William Shakespeare
RRP: $17.08Booksplease Price: $13.89The first of Shakespeare's four plays about the Wars of the Roses, dramatizing the rivalry between power-hungry noble houses, divided by grievances inherited from the past. This Penguin Shakespeare... -
London: The Biography by Peter Ackroyd 9780099422587
RRP: $57.00Booksplease Price: $43.21Much of Peter Ackroyd's work has been concerned with the life and past of London but here, as a culmination, is his definitive account of the city. For him it is a living organism, with its own laws... -
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius 9781857150551
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $26.73Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (a.d. 121 180) succeeded his adoptive father as emperor of Rome in a.d. 161 and Meditations remains one of the greatest works of spiritual and ethical reflection ever... -
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The Road to Rome: (The Forgotten Legion Chronicles No. 3) by Ben Kane 9781848090156 [USED COPY]
Booksplease Price: $5.04Having survived the perils of a journey across half the world, Romulus and Tarquinius are press-ganged into the legions, which are under imminent threat of annihilation by the Egyptians. Meanwhile in... -
Love's Labour's Lost by William Shakespeare
RRP: $15.18Booksplease Price: $13.89William Shakespeare's comedy Love's Labours Lost is edited with an introduction by John Kerrigan in Penguin Shakespeare.'What fool is not so wiseTo lose an oath to win a paradise?'Ferdinand, King of... -
Reign of Iron by Angus Watson
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $15.24THE ACTION-PACKED FINAL VOLUME IN THE EPIC TRILOGY THAT FANTASY FANS EVERYWHERE ARE TALKING ABOUT 'Unflinchingly bloodthirsty and outrageously entertaining' Christopher Brookmyre 'It simply grabbed... -
Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
RRP: $15.18Booksplease Price: $11.44'We go to Shakespeare to find out about ourselves' Jeanette WintersonBeatrice and Benedick both claim they are determined never to marry. But when their friends trick them into believing that each... -
Greek Tragedy by Aeschylus
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $17.54Agememnon is the first part of the Aeschylus's Orestian trilogy in which the leader of the Greek army returns from the Trojan war to be murdered by his treacherous wife Clytemnestra. In Sophocles'... -
The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $13.89William Shakespeare's comic encore for one of his best-loved characters - the rascally Falstaff from Henry IV and Henry V - The Merry Wives of Windsor is edited by G.R. Hibbard with an introduction... -
The Legacy of Rome: How the Roman Empire Shaped the Modern World by Simon Elliott
RRP: $38.00Booksplease Price: $27.06The world of the Roman Republic and Empire is still very much with us, alive and a key companion as we negotiate the trials and tribulations of modern life. We don't just walk in the footsteps of... -
The Twelve Caesars by Robert Graves
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $14.71'Suetonius, in holding up a mirror to those Caesars of diverting legend, reflects not only them but ourselves: half-tempted creatures, whose great moral task is to hold in balance the angel and the... -
The History of the Kings of Britain by Geoffrey Monmouth
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $17.54Completed in 1136, The History of the Kings of Britain traces the story of the realm from its supposed foundation by Brutus to the coming of the Saxons some two thousand years later. Vividly... -
The Oresteian Trilogy by Aeschylus
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $17.54Aeschylus (525-c.456 bc) set his great trilogy in the immediate aftermath of the Fall of Troy, when King Agamemnon returns to Argos, a victor in war. Agamemnon depicts the hero's discovery that his... -
The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare 9780141396286
RRP: $17.08Booksplease Price: $12.67'After God, Shakespeare has created most' Alexandre DumasTwo sets of identical twins, separated at sea as babies, find themselves in the same city for the first time as adults. Soon, their friends... -
Selected Political Speeches by Cicero
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $17.54Amid the corruption and power struggles of the collapse of the Roman Republic, Cicero (106-43BC) produced some of the most stirring and eloquent speeches in history. A statesman and lawyer, he was... -
The Early History of Rome by Livy
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $17.54'I hope my passion for Rome's past has not impaired my judgement; for I do honestly believe that no country has ever been greater or purer than ours or richer in good citizens and noble deeds'Livy... -
The Enchanter by Vladimir Nabokov
RRP: $15.18Booksplease Price: $13.85Nabokov described this novella, written in Paris in 1939 but only published twenty years later, as 'the first little throb of Lolita'. The plot is similar: a middle-aged man wedding an unattractive... -
The Nature of the Gods by Cicero
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $18.58Towards the end of his life, Cicero turned away from his oratorical and political career and looked instead to matters of philosophy and religion. The dialogue The Nature of the Gods both explores... -
All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare 9780141396262
RRP: $17.08Booksplease Price: $13.89'Shakespeare was not of an age, but for all time' Ben Jonson A poor doctor's daughter cures the King of France and, in return, is promised marriage to any nobleman she wishes. But the proud young... -
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London: The Biography by Peter Ackroyd 9780099422587 [USED COPY]
RRP: $57.00Booksplease Price: $4.56Much of Peter Ackroyd's work has been concerned with the life and past of London but here, as a culmination, is his definitive account of the city. For him it is a living organism, with its own laws... -
Asterix: Asterix and the Griffin: Album 39 by Jean-Yves Ferri
RRP: $17.08Booksplease Price: $12.88Be the first to read the next action-packed adventure from the indomitable Gauls by pre-ordering now!Follow Asterix and Obelix as they set out on their 39th adventure on a long journey in search of a... -
Prometheus Bound and Other Plays by Aeschylus
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $15.11Aeschylus (525-456 BC) brought a new grandeur and epic sweep to the drama of classical Athens, raising it to the status of high art. In Prometheus Bound the defiant Titan Prometheus is brutally... -
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Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire by Simon Baker 9781846072840 [USED COPY]
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $4.81This is the story of the greatest empire the world has ever known. Simon Baker charts the rise and fall of the world's first superpower, focusing on six momentous turning points that shaped Roman... -
The Road to Rome: (The Forgotten Legion Chronicles No. 3) Ben Kane 9781848090163
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $17.97________________________The dramatic climax to Ben Kane's Forgotten Legion TrilogyHaving survived the perils of a journey across half the world, Romulus and Tarquinius are press-ganged into the... -
A Christmas Carol and Other Christmas Writings by Charles Dickens 9780140439052
RRP: $17.08Booksplease Price: $12.67'Every idiot who goes about with "Merry Christmas" on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding'Dickens's story of solitary miser Ebenezer Scrooge, who is taught the true meaning of Christmas... -
The Birds and Other Plays by Aristophanes
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $17.54Offering a window into the world of ordinary Athenians, Aristophanes' The Birds and Other Plays is a timeless set of comedies, combining witty satire and raucous slapstick to wonderful effect. This... -
Murder by Numbers: Fascinating Figures Behind the World's Worst Crimes by James Moore 9780750992077
Booksplease Price: $30.19What is the connection between the number 13 and Jack the Ripper? Why was the number 18 crucial in catching Acid Bath murderer John George Haigh? And what is so puzzling about the number 340 in the... -
Othello by William Shakespeare 9780141396514
RRP: $17.08Booksplease Price: $12.67'If we wish to know the force of human genius we should read Shakespeare' William HazlittA soldier of great standing and a newly married man, Othello seems to be in an enviable position. And yet,... -
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The Road to Rome: (The Forgotten Legion Chronicles No. 3) by Ben Kane 9781848090163 [USED COPY]
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $4.58________________________The dramatic climax to Ben Kane's Forgotten Legion TrilogyHaving survived the perils of a journey across half the world, Romulus and Tarquinius are press-ganged into the... -
The Cid, the Cinna, the Theatrical Illusion by Pierre Corneille 9780140443127
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $18.58The Cid, Corneille's masterpiece set in medieval Spain, was the first great work of French classical drama; Cinna, written three years later in 1641, is a tense political drama, while The Theatrical... -
Asterix and the Griffin: Album 39 by Jean-Yves Ferri
RRP: $22.78Booksplease Price: $16.42The latest Album, Asterix and the White Iris, is now available!Deep in the frozen plains of Barbaricum, the Sarmatians face a terrible threat. The Romans are approaching in huge numbers to capture... -
Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire Simon Baker 9781846072840
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $21.68This is the story of the greatest empire the world has ever known. Simon Baker charts the rise and fall of the world's first superpower, focusing on six momentous turning points that shaped Roman... -
Henry VI Part Two by Stanley W. Wells
RRP: $17.08Booksplease Price: $13.89The second play in Shakespeare's tetralogy dealing with the Hundred Years War and the Wars of the Roses, Henry VI Part Two is arguably the best introduction to the playwright's genius as a writer of... -
Augustus: A Novel by John Williams
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $15.49By the author of Stoner, the surprise international bestsellerAfter the brutal murder of his great-uncle, Julius Caesar, Octavian, a shy and scholarly youth of nineteen, suddenly finds himself heir... -
Micromegas and Other Short Fictions by Francois Voltaire
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $18.58Something between a tale and a polemic, these "fables of reason" are feats of narrative compression and contain much of Voltaire's best and funniest writing. From ribald tales of adultery to... -
Carthage: A new history of an ancient empire by Eve MacDonald 9781529911695
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $19.10The empire behind the legendCarthage was a power that dominated the western Mediterranean for almost six centuries before its fall to Rome. The history of the realm and its Carthaginians was subsumed... -
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Tales of Terror by Robert Louis Stevenson
RRP: $15.18Booksplease Price: $11.40His innovative thriller, as shocking now as when it was first published, the Penguin Classics edition of Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Tales of Terror... -
The Digest of Roman Law: Theft, Rapine, Damage and Insult by Justinian I, Emperor of the East
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $18.58Codified by Justinian I and published under his aegis in A.D. 533, this celebrated work of legal history forms a fascinating picture of ordinary life in Rome.About the AuthorJustinian I (483 -565)... -
The History of Alexander by Quintus Curtius Rufus
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $17.54Alexander the Great (356-323 BC), who led the Macedonian army to victory in Egypt, Syria, Persia and India, was perhaps the most successful conqueror the world has ever seen. Yet although no other...