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'Troy. The most marvellous kingdom in all the world. The Jewel of the Aegean.

Glittering Ilion, the city that rose and fell not once but twice . . .''An inimitable retelling of the siege of Troy .

. . Fry's narrative, artfully humorous and rich in detail, breathes life and contemporary relevance into these ancient tales' OBSERVERStep into Stephen Fry's bewitching retelling of the legend of Troy in his most epic book yet________'Troy.

The most marvellous kingdom in all the world . . .'Paris the Trojan has...

More Fool Me is a brilliant, eloquent account by a man driven to create and to entertain revealing a dark side he has long kept hidden. By his early thirties, Stephen Fry television darling and critically acclaimed and bestselling author with a coterie of equally talented friends had, as they say, made it.

Writing and recording by day, and haunting a never-ending series of celebrity parties by night, he was a high functioning addict in both work and play. He was so distracted by the high life that he could hardly see the inevitable, headlong tumble that must surely follow...

But strange things have been going on at Swafford. Miracles. Healings. Phenomena beyond the comprehension of a mud-caked hippopotamus like Ted.

Der krönende Abschluss der Mythos-Tetralogie: Die berühmteste Heldengeschichte aller Zeiten

Troja ist gefallen. Nach zehn Jahren Krieg lockt für die Griechen endlich die Heimat. Während Agamemnon zu Hause die Rache Klytaimnestras erwartet, ist Odysseus dazu verdammt, über die Meere zu irren. Dabei muss er sich einäugigen Riesen, verführerischen Nymphen, schrecklichen Seeungeheuern und tosenden Stürmen stellen, um nach Ithaka zu seiner klugen Frau Penelope zurückzukehren.

In einer grandios unterhaltsamen Neuerzählung des Homer'schen Epos lädt uns der...

During the nineteenth century, the roughest but most important ocean passage in the world lay between Britain and the United States. Bridging the Atlantic Ocean by steamship was a defining, remarkable feat of the era. Over time, Atlantic steamships became the largest, most complex machines yet devised. They created a new transatlantic world of commerce and travel, reconciling former Anglo-American enemies and bringing millions of emigrants who transformed the United States.

In Transatlantic, the experience of crossing the Atlantic is re-created in stunning detail from the...