Peas & queues : the minefield of modern manners / Toksvig, Sandi, author.

I lost my love in Baghdad : a modern war story / Hastings, Michael, 1980-

The leadership genius of Julius Caesar : modern lessons from the man who built an empire / Barlag

Modern classics.

fired not just the opening rounds of the First World War but the starting gun for modern history. This

and a modern-day New Yorker prompted to rediscover her Armenian past.

include tales of tsunamis, modern-day pirates, corrupt customs officials, several instances of 'DOG

involving the practice of ancient pagan religious rites in the modern city of Bath. At every step, though

travelling abroad their nearest modern day equivalents. Sometimes their names have survived, even if only as

. Accompanying him is his journalist friend Ben Ryland, who wants to follow up a story about modern-day smuggling

Not content with walking the Pennine Way as a modern day troubadour, an experience recounted in his

into the twenty-first century. Bearing all the attributes of a modern-day Mr Rochester, Matthew