Middlemarch

George Eliot

Middlemarch is a complex tale of idealism, disillusion, profligacy, loyalty and frustrated love. This penetrating analysis of the life of an English provincial town during the time of social unrest prior to the Reform Bill of 1832 is told through the lives of Dorothea Brooke and Dr Tertius Lydgate and i...

A World Beneath the Sands: Adventurers and Archaeologists in the Golden Age of Egyptology

Toby Wilkinson

What could be more exciting, more exotic or more intrepid than digging in the sands of Egypt in the hope of discovering golden treasures from the age of the pharaohs? Our fascination with ancient Egypt goes back to the ancient Greeks. But the heyday of Egyptology was undoubtedly the nineteenth and early...

Murdle Volume 3: Even More Killer Puzzles: 100 Cunningly Clever Murder Mystery Logic Puzzles

G.T Karber

**From THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING SERIES comes even more MURDLE - the 'utterly addictive' murderous puzzle book for armchair detectives everywhere**'THE PUZZLE SENSATION OF THE YEAR!' - JANICE HALLETT, bestselling author of THE TWYFORD CODE'I'M COMPLETELY OBSESSED' - OLIVIA BLACKE, author of A FATAL G...