Burial of Ghosts is a page-turning stand alone novel from Ann Cleeves, creator of the astounding Shetland and Vera Stanhope crime series • Twenty-five-year-old Lizzie Bartholomew has had more than her fair share of struggles. Abandoned as a baby, she spent her childhood moving between foster homes. Now she is running away from her past • A holiday in Morocco seems to be the perfect escape. Especially when she meets Philip, a fellow tourist who distracts her from her troubles. After a brief affair, Lizzie returns to England, to a solicitor's letter • Philip Samson has died. In his will, he has left Lizzie a gift of GBP15,000. But there are conditions attached to this unexpected legacy that will soon force Lizzie to confront terrifying secrets from her past life
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From the international bestselling Valerio Massimo Manfredi, Wolves of Rome is a historical thriller about two brothers and the betrayal of Teutoburg Forest that devastated the Roman Empire. This is a must read for fans of Simon Scarrow, Ben Kane and Conn Iggulden • Bound by Blood. Divided by an Empire • Deep in a dark, foreboding forest, the Roman Empire will face its bloodiest test • 3 BC. Two wild Germanic brothers, Armin and Wulf, are held hostage in Rome to keep their father from rebelling against the Empire. As the years pass, they are moulded into ideal soldiers: brave, disciplined, ruthless. Attributes that are to be tested when a conspiracy arises, threatening their emperor and the Empire's future • As serving Roman soldiers, the brothers are separated at opposite ends of the Empire, each proving their bloody might on the battlefield
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1 781 руб.
Археолог, разведчица, арабист, лингвист, писательница, поэтесса, фотограф, альпинистка и созидательница нации, Гертруда Белл родилась в 1868 году в мире привилегий и изобилия, но она отвернулась от всего этого из-за своей страсти к арабским народам, став архитектором независимого королевства Ирак и увидев, как оно меняется. его первый король Фейсал благополучно взошел на трон в 1921 году. "Королева пустыни. Необыкновенная жизнь Гертруды Белл", написанная Джорджиной Хауэлл - это ее история, живо рассказанная и безупречно исследованная, основанная на собственных трудах Гертруды, как опубликованных, так и неопубликованных • Книга на английском языке • Archaeologist, spy, Arabist, linguist, author, poet, photographer, mountaineer and nation builder, Gertrude Bell was born in 1868 into a world of privilege and plenty, but she turned her back on all that for her passion for the Arab peoples, becoming the architect of the independent kingdom of Iraq and seeing its first king Faisal safely onto the throne in 1921
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2 891 руб.