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It is 539 A.D.

The year is 548 and Empress Theodora is dead, the victim of cancer. Or so everyone in Constantinople, capital of the Roman Empire, believes.

Reed and Mayer combine the scholarship of Steven Saylor with the humor of Lindsey Davis.

Byzantium, capitol of the sixth century Roman Empire, simmers a rich stew of creeds, cultures, and citizens with a sprinkling of cutthroats and crimes.

In 525 Constantinople nothing is as it should be.

Who killed the mosaic girl?

In January 532, mobs ruled Constantinople, capital of the Roman Empire.

The human side of birding comes to the fore in The Reluctant Twitcher, a serious yet humorous account of birds and birding and the art of chasing rarities.

Why are sheep in a remote Egyptian village cutting their own throats?

The year is 542. While plague stalks Constantinople, an angel sets John the Eunuch on the trail of a human killer.

The human side of birding comes to the fore in The Reluctant Twitcher, a serious yet humorous account of birds and birding and the art of chasing rarities.

Me n Len is a warm and humourously nostalgic look back at life in the backwoods of Ontario in the "good old days." The setting is the rural area of eastern Haliburton, Ontario, in the dec

Lancashire, 1858. Annie Hallam has at last found complete happiness. She has three healthy children and adores her husband Frederick.

Rachel Smedling is not like other women in her isolated Pennine village: she is taller, stronger and weaves cloth like a man.

For Mattie Willit, caught in a thunderstorm running away from her bullying stepfather,rescue comes in the form of Jacob Kemble,a widowed farmer living with his two young children.