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Aunts, engagements, misunderstandings and hangover cures – this delightful collection from ‘the greatest chronicler of a certain kind of Englishness’ brings together a baker’s dozen of P.G. Wodehouse’s finest short stories.
When an old man’s body is discovered drowned, a Berlin policeman begins a routine investigation which rapidly becomes anything but routine. Ordered off the case by the Gestapo, his curiosity leads him through a maze of unexplained happenings.
Ancient Rome teems with ambitious and ruthless men. None is more brilliant than Marcus Cicero. A rising young lawyer, backed by a shrewd wife, he decides to gamble everything on one of the most dramatic courtroom battles of all time. Win it, and he could win control of Rome itself. Lose it, and he is finished for ever.
Harris recreates in spellbinding detail one of the most famous natural disasters of all time. And by focusing on the characters of an engineer and a scientist, he offers an entirely original perspective on the Roman world.
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