An entertaining collection of strange, delightful and unexpectedly apt words from the origins of English.

A sweeping account of the social and political world of the Roman emperors by 'the world's most famous classicist' (Guardian)

Princes, collectors, bookworms and thieves: the extraordinary story of the library, from Alexandria to the age of Google.

Diaries, sketchbooks, common-places, notebooks, ledgers and ships' logs: how the blank book changed the way we think, and helped us change the world.

From warrior queens and the 300 to the Peloponnesian war, a major new history of the world's first superpower