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An 18th-century explorer travels to Egypt as part of Napoleon's great expedition and stumbles into a deadly 6,000-year-old mystery, in this surprise hit by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "The Scourge of God" and "Hadrian's Wall."What mystical secrets lie beneath the Great Pyramids? The world ... More

One of Shakespeare's early plays, As You Like It is a romantic comedy about the restoration and regeneration of society through the affirmation of certain positive human values such as brotherly love, tolerance for different viewpoints, and optimism about life at large. The plot centres on the resol... More

James Achilles Kirkpatrick landed on the shores of eighteenth-century India as an ambitious soldier of the East India Company. Although eager to make his name in the subjection of a nation, it was he who was conquered—not by an army but by a Muslim Indian princess. Kirkpatrick was the British Resi... More

‘In Xanadu is, without doubt, one of the best travel books produced in the last 20 years. It is witty and intelligent, brilliantly observed, deftly constructed and extremely entertaining… Dalrymple’s gift for transforming ordinary humdrum experience into something extraordinary and timeless su... More

‘In his third book William Dalrymple has dug deep to present the case of the Middle East’s downtrodden Christians. More hard-hitting than either of his previous books, From the Holy Mountain is driven by indignation. While leavened with his characteristic jauntiness and humour, it is also profou... More

‘The Age of Kali is a panorama of the Indian subcontinent, poised between chaos, westernization and immemorial tradition… It is like Dalrymple’s previous books, erudite, engaging and entertaining’—Martin Gayford, Spectator Books of the Year... More

Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize for History 2007Bahadur Shah Zafar II, the last Mughal Emperor, was a mystic, a talented poet, and a skilled calligrapher, who, though deprived of real political power by the East India Company, succeeded in creating a court of great brilliance, and presided over ... More

Teach Yourself Chess contains everything a beginning chess player needs to know about this mentally challenging game. It describes the moves of the pieces, elementary tactics in offensive and defensive play, and the basic combinations to force checkmate. The author also provides detailed commentarie... More