Historical fiction, English

Step on to a stage full of stories with this beautiful anthology of 12 stories from Shakespeare, rewritten to be accessible to children aged 7+. Including favourites such as 'The Tempest', 'A Midsummer Night's Dream', 'Romeo and Juliet', 'Hamlet' and 'Othello', each story is stunningly illustrate...

When Bernard Cornwell's 'The Last Kingdom' was published in 2004 it was not just the new novel from one of the world's bestselling historical novelists, but the start of a series which would span 13 novels, reach millions of readers around the world and launch an epic TV series with global reach....

Lindsey Davis has received the Crime Writer's Association Lifetime Achievement Award for her two immortal series of detective novels featuring Marcus Didius Falco and his adopted daughter, Flavia Albia. She is regarded as the finest living novelist of Ancient Rome. Here are four novella-length st...