Sarah Bower

Dictionary Of Northern Mythology

By Rudolf Simek (trans. Angela Hall) - Published 2006

Genres:

Nonfiction

This English translation of Simek’s comprehensive work was first published in 1984 but has been updated and repackaged for this edition. The title ...Read Review

The Fall Of Troy

By Peter Ackroyd - Published 2006

Genres:

Literary

In this small but perfectly formed novel, Peter Ackroyd returns to the themes of fakes and forgeries. Set during the excavation of Troy, ...Read Review

The Women’s War

By Alexandre Dumas - By Robin Buss (trans.) - Published 2006

Genres:

Saga

Less well known than The Three Musketeers or The Count of Monte Cristo, The Women’s War has all Dumas’ hallmarks. It is ...Read Review

The Valley

By J.D. Landis - Published 2005Published 2006

Genres:

Saga

  Landis’ third novel tells the story of Sarianna, a student in late 1930s Massachusetts with nihilistic leanings and a poetic attachment to ...Read Review

A Thousand Suns

By Alex Scarrow - Published 2006

Genres:

Alternate HistoryThriller

  On the 29th April 1945, the Allies secretly surrender to Hitler’s Germany. Four hours later, their surrender is withdrawn. This sensational fact ...Read Review

Afterlands

By Steven Heighton - Published 2006

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EpicLiterary

In 1871 a thwarted American expedition to the Arctic casts 19 survivors adrift on an ice floe off the coast of Greenland – one white and ...Read Review

Viking: King’s Man

By Tim Severin - Published 2006

Genres:

Adventure

  This is the third and final novel in Tim Severin’s Viking trilogy, which tells the eventful life story of Thorgils, a ...Read Review

The Mirror of the Gods : Classical Mythology in Renaissance Art

By Malcolm Bull - Published 2006

Genres:

Nonfiction

  This is a scholarly study but plainly written with a minimum of technical artistic terms, which makes it accessible to the lay ...Read Review

The Last Templar

By Raymond Khoury - Published 2006

Genres:

Adventure

The hugely successful Da Vinci Code has resulted in a cottage industry of thrillers depicting various conspiracies surrounding the founding and early growth ...Read Review

Rosetta

By Barbara Ewing - Published 2006

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As a child, Rose Hall is fascinated with language and stories. When her father reveals that she was named for the port of ...Read Review