I, Messalina

Unfortunately, She was a Nymphomaniac: A New History of Rome’s Imperial Women

By Joan Smith

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Playground of the Gods

Land Between the Rivers: A 5,000-Year History of Iraq

By Bartle Bull

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Pillars of Sand

The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World

By Bettany Hughes

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From the October 2023 Issue

Escape from Kabul

The Gardener of Lashkar Gah: A True Story of the Afghans Who Risked Everything to Fight the Taliban

By Larisa Brown

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More Defamed Than Debauched

Messalina: A Story of Empire, Slander and Adultery

By Honor Cargill-Martin

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From the March 2023 Issue

Lead Us Not into Vexation

Touching Cloth: Confessions and Communions of a Young Priest

By Fergus Butler-Gallie

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From the February 2023 Issue

When in Essex

The Road: A Story of Romans and Ways to the Past

By Christopher Hadley

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From the November 2022 Issue

Size was Everything to Him

The Mad Emperor: Heliogabalus and the Decadence of Rome

By Harry Sidebottom

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On the Road

Nomads: The Wanderers Who Shaped Our World

By Anthony Sattin

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Lion of Peshawar

Afghan Napoleon: The Life of Ahmad Shah Massoud

By Sandy Gall

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From the August 2021 Issue

Where the Alans Roamed

History of the Caucasus: Volume One – At the Crossroads of Empires

By Christoph Baumer (Translated from German by Christopher W Reid)

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Pop Stars of Westminster

One of Them: An Eton College Memoir

By Musa Okwonga

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Our Man in Kabul

Alexandria: The Quest for the Lost City

By Edmund Richardson

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From the September 2020 Issue

River Deep, Mountain High

Himalaya: A Human History

By Ed Douglas

The Frozen River: Seeking Silence in the Himalaya

By James Crowden

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From the June 2020 Issue

Good Rule Hunting

Virtue Politics: Soulcraft and Statecraft in Renaissance Italy

By James Hankins

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From the June 2019 Issue

Rhinos of War

The Snow Leopard Project and Other Adventures in Warzone Conservation

By Alex Dehgan

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Great Game Changer

Afghanistan in the Age of Empires

By Farrukh Husain

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Searching for Sufism

Travels in a Dervish Cloak

By Isambard Wilkinson

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From the February 2017 Issue

Kilt for Hire

The Tartan Turban: In Search of Alexander Gardner

By John Keay

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From Timur to the Taliban

The Pearl of Khorasan: A History of Herat

By C P W Gammell

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