is a slight bargain if you plan to visit two sites, but a huge value if you will visit all five; note you can only visit each site once during the three days). Robert Harris has also written the following non-fictional books: Good and Faithful Servant, Selling Hitler, which tells the story of the fraudulent Hitler Diaries, The Making of Neil Kinnock Gotcha!

The lives lived here tend towards the gritty, workaday world with studies of women in business and trade, although elite women, public priestesses, also make an appearance. Generation, regeneration, again, again, as in a ritual, with blood-stained vestments and nail-torn hands, children of Merlin, chasing a gleam. She quite literally wrote the book(s) on gardens, and her archaeological approach to plant remains revolutionised how botanical evidence is collected. I have a clear memory of standing in the Forum and thinking it was the most amazing place I had ever been. Harris acknowledged in many interviews that the plot of his novel was inspired by Polanski's film Chinatown, and Polanski said it was precisely that similarity that had attracted him to Pompeii.Mario Praz’s Illustrated History of Interior Decoration is a wonderful chatty collection of case studies that explores the history of the subject in a well-informed and erudite manner. Here, prostitutes could flout the norms of society and proclaim themselves sexual subjects and agents, while servile clients were allowed to act as 'real men'. If you don't want to miss seeing Vesuvius and have decided to take the bus, I recommend taking it from Pompeii to be certain. It is, in many ways, a love letter to the place that somewhat unexpectedly became the focus her life. The world's most controversial classicist debunks our movie-style myths about the Roman town with meticulous scholarship and propulsive energy .

This radical essay explores patriarchy and capitalism’s impact on beauty ideals, and inspires us to embrace our own disobedient bodies. The destruction of Pompeii still grips the world’ imagination, but what can we really tell from its preserved remains? To mark Folio’s 75th anniversary, Michael Ende’s The Neverending Story is published as a magical new edition, beautifully illustrated by award-winning artist Marie-Alice Harel and bursting with exquisite design details.Attilius's concerns about the water are heightened when he is summoned by a young, wealthy woman, Corelia, to investigate water that apparently killed her father's prized fish. A collection of pictures and watercolours from all over Europe, Russia and America record rooms of all periods and their contents; the furniture, fabrics, carpets, pictures and wall-coverings. A culinary guide and book of ready reference meant to be the most comprehensive book on Italian cuisine, and it includes over 800 recipes from the 109 provinces of Italy's 20 regions.

The appalling fate of girl babies, the way gladiators were trained, the position of women and slaves, all are described for the reader so Lucia and Tag really live. This meant that the less visually attractive evidence, such as human skeletal remains, were largely ignored.Mary Beard] manages to show us at the same time that almost none of the things we have always assumed about the destruction of the city in 79 AD is quite true, and yet that in a larger sense most of them are true, some of them truer than we knew. Pompeii itself had a long history and was recovering from an earthquake when the eruption in 79 occurred.

Using the excellent map that's provided free for visitors, you can stroll into the uncrowded southern and eastern part of the ruins through the Noceran Gate. By providing a fresh interpretation of the graffiti on the walls, Beard even lets the Pompeiians speak: ’Ladicula’s a thief’, ’Atimetus got me pregnant’. Produced in partnership with the Parco Archeologico di Pompei, readers are expertly guided through the Roman city’s nine districts, including many hidden corners that are inaccessible to most visitors.

The novel is notable for its references to various aspects of volcanology and use of the Roman calendar. We have your Babylons and your Pompeiis, your Caesars and your chromium-plated (vital-ingredient impregnated) artifacts. Attilius also discovers that Exomnius was investigating the phenomena around Vesuvius since he recognised some of them from his hometown of Catania after an eruption of Mount Etna.