Publicado por Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Lt 2006 Paperback, 2006
ISBN 10: 0752877097 ISBN 13: 9780752877099
Librería: Book Haven, Wellington, WLG, Nueva Zelanda
Condición: Good. In 2756 AC (2003 AD in Christian terms), magnetic railways span Roman territory from Persia to Terranova, and mechanised crucifixes are ranked along the banks of the Thames. As volume one of ROMANITAS opens, Marcus Novius Faustus Leo, heir apparent to the Imperial throne, is mourning the death of his parents following a tragic accident. However, as information about the last days of his father's life becomes known to him, Marcus realises that his father's death was no accident and that his own life is in danger. Meanwhile, an escaped slave girl called Una, who possesses the power to look inside others' minds, struggles to save her brother, Sulien, from a London prison ship. In a fortune teller's stall in a Gallic flea-market, Marcus, Una and Sulien's paths cross, and the fate of the Empire rests on their shoulders. 544 pages.
Publicado por Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group 2006 Paperback, 2006
ISBN 10: 0753813580 ISBN 13: 9780753813584
Librería: Book Haven, Wellington, WLG, Nueva Zelanda
Condición: Good. The lost cities of South America have always exercised a powerful hold on the popular imagination. The ruins of the Incas and other pre-Colombian civilisations are scattered over thousands of miles of still largely uncharted territory, particularly in the Eastern Andes, where the mountains fall away towards the Amazon.Twenty years ago, Hugh Thomson set off into the cloud-forest on foot to find a ruin that had been carelessly lost again after its initial discovery. Into his history of the Inca Empire he weaves the story of his adventures as he travelled to the most remote Inca cities. It is also the story of the great explorers in whose footsteps he followed, such as Hiram Bingham and Gene Savoy. 432 pages.
Publicado por Orion Publishing 2006 Paperback, 2006
ISBN 10: 0752875744 ISBN 13: 9780752875743
Librería: Book Haven, Wellington, WLG, Nueva Zelanda
Condición: Good. 'Tell me the truth'. It is a simple request, but one that shakes the reclusive and enigmatic novelist, Vida Winter, to her very core. For has she not spent the past six decades writing fictional lives that have not only brought her fame and fortune but kept her violent and tragic past secret? Now old and ailing Vida Winter cannot escape her own history, no matter how many stories she weaves. 'Tell me the truth'. These words from the past echo in the heat of young biographer Margaret Lea, for whom the secret of her own birth, hidden by those who love her most, remains an ever-present pain. With a letter that finally promises to reveal the long-kept secrets of her life, Vida Winter invites Margaret on a journey into the past. Vida's tale is one of gothic strangeness featuring the Angelfield family: the beautiful and wilful Isabelle and the feral twins, Adeline and Emmeline. In succumbing to Vida's storytelling, Margaret finds that it sheds a troubling light on her own life. Both women confront the ghosts that have haunted them and both become, finally, transformed by the truth. 416 pages.