Francine Prose makes us rediscover Anne Frank and her family's story, explaining what happened after Anne Frank's death. But this biography is different from anything written on Frank before as the writer insists on the fact that Anne Frank had a real talent for writing, and that her diary is not only a historical work but a piece of literature too, she «wasn't just a fascinating and tragic figure, but a writer too.» (Time Out).

From Beethoven and Kant to Hegel and Nietzsche, passing by Wagner or Marx, Peter Watson tells the fascinating intellectual and cultural history of Germany, Going back through time from the end of the Baroque age to the rise of Hitler, the author succeeds in making us forget all stereotypes, and delivers us another facet of the country, which is often known because of the role it had in the Second World War. An absorbing reading on the German genius, which still resonates today.

The Sultan's Shadow is a brilliant research on the rise and fall of Oman's Sultan Said's family. Christiane Bird makes us dicover a male-dominated society haunted by centuries of despair, in a world of changes. With international intrigues, family feuds and charismatic characters, she makes of an historical book an exciting reading wich keeps us in suspense until the end.

The authors illustrate the lives of these remarkable women from the first vicereine, Charlotte Canning, to the ultimate one, Edwina Mountbatten. Told with charm and humour, this biographical history of the invisible Empresses highlights the most powerful position accessible to women in the age of Empire.