The Buried City : by Gabriel Zuchtriegel

The Buried City : by Gabriel Zuchtriegel'The best book on Pompeii I've ever read' STEPHEN FRY'Makes the familiar magical' DAN SNOW'Brilliant' TOM HOLLANDA vast area of Pompeii is being excavated for the first time, revealing astonishing insights into how people really lived. In this revelatory new history, Director of Pompeii Gabriel Zuchtriegel shares the untold stories that are at last emerging. Pompeii is a world frozen in time. There are unmade beds, dishes left drying, tools abandoned

late summer 1945 - The war is over but the country is in ruins

faceless warrior

into old paintings

but the last thing he ever does

For beneath the dazzle of Soho's gaiety

and brimming with life and drama

Anne used the secret passageways and the cellars to move around unnoticed

Katherine Woodfine

two roughshod detectives are called to the roof of a skyscraper

As loyalties shift like sand and political ambitions run rife

and suspenseful detective series' - Joseph Finder

Gulliver’s Travels delights in the mockery of everything from government to religion and – despite the passing of nearly three centuries – remains just as funny and relevant today