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An anthology of classical literature, both non-fiction and fiction, bringing together one hundred stories from the rich diversity of the literary canon of ancient Greece and Rome.
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Daisy Dunn
A real-life Brideshead Revisited that will appeal to fans of Evelyn Waugh, P. G. Wodehouse and Nancy Mitford
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A dazzlingly ambitious history of the ancient world that places women at the center-from Cleopatra to Boudica, Sappho to Fulvia, and countless other artists, writers, leaders, and creators of history
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A vivid portrait of the ancient world that illuminates the stories of the women so often pushed to history's sidelines
When Pliny the Elder perished at Stabiae during the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD, he left behind an enormous compendium of knowledge, his thirty-seven-volume Natural History, and a teenaged…
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A wonderfully rich, witty, insightful, and wide-ranging portrait of the two Plinys and their world. -Sarah Bakewell, author of How to Live
An accessible, authoritative and timely introduction to Homer for adult readers
Part of the ALL-NEW LADYBIRD EXPERT SERIES
Was there really a Trojan War?
What makes a Homeric hero?
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Ash spewed into the sky. All eyes were on Vesuvius. Pliny the Elder sailed towards the phenomenon. A teenage Pliny the Younger waited. His uncle did not come back.
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A biography of Gaius Valerius Catullus, Rome’s first great poet, a dandy who fell in love with another man’s wife and made it known to the world through his verse…
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Daisy Dunn’s vivid narrative rediscovers the life and poetry of Gaius Valerius Catullus, Rome’s first modern poet, a dandy who fell in love with another man’s wife and made it…
Jonathan Dunne
It is always night in the cave. Take my cold hand.
Weeks before young Fern Keegan sees what she sees in the river tunnel during the Old Castle floods, a…
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Carola Dunn
In this second installment of Carola Dunn’s cozy mystery series set in 1923 England, plucky Daisy Dalrymple embarks on another assignment for Town and Country magazine and discovers that daffodil…
Daisy and her friend Lucy are at a stately home reputed to have the best grotto in the country, for research on their architectural book. As long-held secrets and resentments…
Scotland Yard Detective Alec Fletcher and his wife Daisy inherit a large house on the outskirts of London. It is an idyllic setting–until a dead body shows up in their…
The 11th novel in the charming Daisy Dalrymple series of 1920’s country house murder mysteries.
The 21st and very latest Daisy Darymple adventure!
An American heiress is abducted in 1920s England and friends enroll the help of journalist and sleuth Daisy Dalrymple. When Daisy’s attempt to free the American fails, she calls in…
A pleasant lunch in the country with old friends takes an unexpected turn when a corpse is discovered at the feast.
A casual outing to the Crystal Palace in London takes a mysterious and murderous turn in The Corpse at the Crystal Palace, the latest mystery in Carola Dunn’s beloved Daisy…
The lively mystery debut for the Honourable Daisy Dalrymple.
First published in 1997 in the United States by St. Martin’s Press –Title page verso.
Daisy arrives at gloomy Occles Hall in Cheshire in 1923, meeting her former schoolchum, Bobbie Parslow, and the thorny mistress of the manor, Lady Valeria. While taking pictures around the…
The seventeenth Daisy Dalrymple mystery published in the UK for the first time.
Originally published: New York: Kensington, 2000.
Unflappable flapper and Town & Country scribe Daisy Dalrymple searches for a killer whose vicious pen matches a murderous heart in this delightful installment of Dunn’s cozy mystery series.
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Diligent Daisy Dalrymple heads to Scotland on assignment for Town and Country magazine, and finds herself sharing a rail compartment with squabbling would-be heirs, a stowaway–and a corpse! Reissue.
This book will appeal not only to Asian scholars, students, policymakers and practitioners in the fields of health law and ethics and end-of-life care more generally, but will also be…
In late 1923, Daisy Dalrymple and DCI Fletcher of Scotland Yard, newly married, take an ocean voyage to America for their honeymoon. It isn’t all relaxation for the pair when…
Has the unflappable flapper met her match?
In late 1926, Daisy Dalrymple and Inspector Alec Fletcher of Scotland Yard are newly married. On their honeymoon trip aboard a luxury liner on its voyage to America, a series…
In late 1926, the newly married Daisy Dalrymple and Detective Chief Inspector Alec Fletcher of Scotland Yard take an ocean voyage to America for their honeymoon. Daisy and Alec are…
The 10th novel in the charming Daisy Dalrymple series of 1920’s country house murder mysteries.
