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...Peter Frankopan Author of ‘The Silk Roads’ I absolutely loved Mary Beard’s SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome (Profile). It is a sparkling book that brings the past to life....
...Uneducated Mary Dimmock’s prose is spiced with malapropisms and misspellings – “Leduia” for “Leda”; “meulstrom” for “maelstrom” – and end with hilarious postscripts: “We often do it ‘doggy style’,” she writes...
...These dark undercurrents emerge strongly, assisted by a superb performance from Loretta Ables Sayre as the pragmatic island woman Bloody Mary....
...Philip Womack is the author of ‘The Liberators’ (Bloomsbury)...
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