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From the bustling bazaars of Tabriz, to the mysterious island of Caldihe, where sheep were said to grow on trees, Anthony Bale brings history alive in ‘A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages’, inviting the reader to travel across a medieval world punctuated with miraculous wonders and long-lost landmarks. Journeying alongside scholars, spies and saints, from western Europe to the Far East, the Antipodes, and the ends of the world, this is no ordinary travel guide, containing everything from profane pilgrim badges, Venetian laxatives and flying coffins to encounters with bandits and trysts with princesses.
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Simon Armitage’s acclaimed version of ‘Sir Gawain and the Green Knight’ garnered front-page reviews across two continents and confirmed his reputation as a leading translator. This is an entrancing allegorical tale of grief and lost love, as the narrator is led on a Dantean journey through sorrow to redemption by his vanished beloved, Pearl. Retaining all the alliterative music of the original, a Medieval English poem thought to be by the same anonymous author responsible for ‘Gawain’, ‘Pearl’ is here brought to vivid and intricate life.
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Alexander the Great precipitated immense historical change in the Mediterranean and Near Eastern worlds. This text gathers together hundreds of the colourful Alexander legends that have been told and retold around the globe.
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Winner of the 2020 Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger, France’s best foreign book of the year.
‘Astounding’ Sebastian Barry
‘A masterpiece’ Ayad Akhtar
‘This little book is ruminative, humane, and gorgeously precise’
Jonathan Lethem
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Soaked in mist and old magic, ‘Storyland’ is a new illustrated mythology of Britain, set in its wildest landscapes. It begins between the Creation and Noah’s Flood, follows the footsteps of the earliest generation of giants from an age when the children of Cain and the progeny of fallen angels walked the earth, to the founding of Britain, England, Wales and Scotland, the birth of Christ, the wars between Britons, Saxons and Vikings, and closes with the arrival of the Normans. These are retellings of medieval tales of legend, landscape and the yearning to belong, inhabited with characters now half-remembered: Brutus, Albina, Scota, Arthur and Bladud among them.
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‘The Alliterative Morte Arthure’ – the title given to a 4000 line poem written sometime around 1400 – was part of a medieval Arthurian revival. Simon Armitage’s new translation restores a neglected masterpiece of story-telling, by bringing vividly to life its entirely medieval mix of ruthlessness and restraint.
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Simon Armitage’s acclaimed version of ‘Sir Gawain and the Green Knight’ garnered front-page reviews across two continents and confirmed his reputation as a leading translator. This is an entrancing allegorical tale of grief and lost love, as the narrator is led on a Dantean journey through sorrow to redemption by his vanished beloved, Pearl. Retaining all the alliterative music of the original, a Medieval English poem thought to be by the same anonymous author responsible for ‘Gawain’, ‘Pearl’ is here brought to vivid and intricate life.
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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.
This superb book gives a rare portrait of life during one of the most critical moments in world history through the eyes of one of Rome’s greatest writers.
