Pax'Pax' is the third in a trilogy of books narrating the history of the Roman Empire. The series that began with 'Rubicon', and continued with 'Dynasty', now arrives at the period which marks the apoge of the pax Romana. It provides a portrait of the ancient world's ultimate superpower at war and at peace; from the gilded capital to the barbarous realms beyond the frontier; from emperors to slaves.

'Witty and delightful

Grayling seeks to answer them in three crucial areas at the frontiers of knowledge: science

One day a coffin is delivered for his grandfather long before his death - a meticulous

Black people were in fact dispossessed by the moves that were meant to free them

but also dark humour and love

the voices of glamorous but vulnerable Trixie

Charles Dickens dispatches his youngest child to Australia

Scrooge resolves to change and from then on embraces and promotes the true spirit of Christmas

She skips school

In late-eighteenth-century India

A small independent bookstore in Minneapolis is haunted from November 2019 to November 2020 by the store's most annoying customer

The richness of Greek myth is vividly brought to life by the immediacy and originality of a fiery