Historical fiction that "memorably evokes the panoply, wars, plots, wealth . . . in the 11th-century Byzantine empire. . . . Enjoyable, suspenseful reading" ( Library Journal ).Estranged from his native Norway, Viking prince Haraldr Sigurdarson seeks his fortune in the Goddess City of Constantinople. Joining the mercenaries protecting the Byzantine empire, Haraldr soon wins the trust of ailing Emperor Michael, ambitious Em...

"A well-researched, fascinating story of two young women who had the power to change history, and did. . . . You won't want to put this one down." —Jean M. Auel, bestselling author of The Clan of the Cave BearWedded at the age of fifteen to faithless Lodovico il Moro, Beatrice d'Este finds comfort in her closeness with her cousin, Isabella of Aragonia, the Duchess of Milan. But when Beatrice gives birth to a male heir, her status is eleva...

"A thrilling whodunit" as Leonardo da Vinci and Niccolò Machiavelli join forces to find a serial killer in this historical thriller ( Entertainment Weekly ).A beloved son of the House of Borgia is brutally murdered just as the controversial noble family is about to consolidate power, followed by a string of ruthless killings that require no less than the brilliant minds of Niccolò Machiavelli and Leonardo...

Teaching English for Tourism initiates a sustained academic discussion on the teaching and learning of English to tourism professionals, or to students who aspire to build a career in the tourism industry. Responding to a gap in the field, this is the first book of its kind to explore the implications of research in English for tourism (EfT) within the field of English for specific purposes.This edited volume brings together teachers and researchers of EfT from diverse nat...

Here is the world's most famous master plan for seizing and holding power.Astonishing in its candor, The Prince even today remains a disturbingly realistic and prophetic work on what it takes to be a prince . . . a king . . . a president. When, in 1512, Machiavelli was removed from his post in his beloved Florence, he resolved to set down a treatise on leadership that was practical, not idealistic. In The Prince what he envisioned would be unencum...

Paris, 1534. A student at the Catholic Collège de Montaigu, serving as a courier for the Inquisition, is murdered by members of an extreme Lutheran sect for the packet of letters he is carrying. His friend and fellow classmate Amaury de Faverges—the illegitimate son of the Duke of Savoy and an expert in astronomy and natural science—is recruited as his replacement and promised a decree of legitimacy if he can uncover the secret that threatens to overturn Catholicism and the reign of Franço...

Gabriella Mondini is a rarity in sixteenth-century Venice, she's a woman who practises medicine. Her father, a renowned physician, has provided her entrée to this all-male profession, and inspired in her a shared mission to understand the secrets of the human body. Then her father disappears and Gabriella faces a crisis: without her father's patronage, she is no longer permitted to treat her patients.So she sets out across Europe to find her father. Following clues from his occasio...

THE BASIS FOR THE INTERNATIONAL TV SENSATION BABYLON BERLIN"Cabaret on cocaine...captures the dark glamour of a briefly exhilarating time between the wars." --NPRBabylon Berlin is the first book in the international-bestselling series from Volker Kutscher that centers on Detective Gereon Rath caught up in a web of drugs, sex, political intrigue, and murder in Berlin as Germany teeters on the edge ...

Russia, 1861Antonina's world is shattered one cold spring afternoon, when her only son, Misha, is kidnapped while out riding with his father, the Count of the Angelkov estate. The Count is also terribly injured, and Antonina turns for help to those closest to her: Grisha, the estate steward, a man whose stoic exterior hides a secret shame he has borne all the way from Siberia, where he was born; and Lilya, the maid who jealously guards her mistress's secrets - - and her af...

Shortlisted for the CWA Endeavour Historical Dagger 2017'Let's not mince words: historical thrillers don't come any better than The Ashes of Berlin' – Financial Times1947 and Gregor Reinhardt has been hired back onto Berlin's civilian police force. The city is divided among the victorious allied powers, tensions are growing, and the police are riven by internal rivalries as factions within it jockey for power and influence...

The year is 1210, and Ailith is at Windsor Castle witnessing the recovery of the bodies of Matilda de Braose and her eldest son, Will, from an oubliette beneath the floor of the round tower where they have been cruelly starved to death. First maid, then companion to Matilda, Ailith is caught up in the harrowing events that lead to them being incarcerated in a cold and lonely cell with no food, no water and at the end, no hope, and her story begins here. Taken into service at Bramber Castle...

'A real page-turner...juicy enough to devour in one sitting, you'll immediately want to order the next in the series.' DAILY MAILThe first instalment in the Frank Merlin series. Previously published as Prince's Gate.When a brilliant emigré scientist is killed by a hit-and-run driver and the body of an American embassy is washed up in the Thames, DCI Frank Merlin and his team are called to investigate.Merlin's investigations soon ruffle feat...