Impress Books imprint: 48 books

by Phil Gilvin
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018

KNOWLEDGE IS POWER. TO SURVIVE IN A HOSTILE WORLD, WOMEN MUST TAKE CONTROL OF THE KNOWLEDGE THAT REMAINS. The year is 2149. The Women’s Republic of Anglia seeks to harness forgotten technologies from the time when men ruled the world. But when Clara Perdue stumbles on information that the...
by Robert Gibson
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2011

For over half a century, Robert Gibson has published extensively on Alain Fournier's life and work and is now acknowledged as the leading authority on this subject in the English-speaking world. His previous book on Fournier, The Land Without a Name, was widely praised. In the thirty years since this...

Conquest II

The Drowned Court

by Tracey Warr
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2017

Henry I finally reigns over England, Normandy and Wales, but his rule is far from secure. He faces a series of treacherous assassination attempts, and rebellion in Normandy is scuppering his plans to secure a marriage for his son and heir. With the King torn between his kingdoms and Nest settled with...

Conquest

Daughter of the Last King

by Tracey Warr
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016

The three sons of William the Conqueror - Robert Duke of Normandy, William II King of England and Count Henry - fight with each other for control of the Anglo-Norman kingdom created by their father's conquest. Meanwhile, Nest ferch Rhys, the daughter of the last independent Welsh king, is captured during...
by Helen Steadman
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017

‘Did all women have something of the witch about them?’ Jane Chandler is an apprentice healer. From childhood, she and her mother have used herbs to cure the sick. But Jane will soon learn that her sheltered life in a small village is not safe from the troubles of the wider world. From his father’s...
by Tracey Warr
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014

Set in late 10th century France and Wales, The Viking Hostage weaves together the stories of three women living through a time of turbulent power struggles across Europe, Viking raids, and fears of The End of Time. Sigrid is a Pagan and a Norwegian who is captured and held hostage before being sold...

The Russian Countess

Escaping Revolutionary Russia

by Edith Sollohub
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017

‘Charming, touching, tragic and thrilling’ (Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of The Romanovs) Separated from her three young son, stripped of her possessions and fearing for her life, Countess Edith Sollohub found herself trapped in revolutionary Russia. The daughter of a high ranking...
by Saeida Rouass
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017

Morocco, 1906 The country is caught between growing European influence and domestic instability. As young women disappear from the alleyways of Marrakesh, Farook Al-Alami, a detective from Tangier, is summoned to solve the case of the apparent abductions. Investigating crimes in a country...
by Saeida Rouass
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015

Eighteen Days of Spring in Winter follows the life of Sophia, a literature student in Cairo. As the revolution begins to stir across Egypt, each member of Sophia's family is affected differently. Her father remains worried and sceptical, her brother waits patiently at home until drawn out by the protests, and Sophia discovers a new-found political consciousness as the revolution unfolds.
by Dan Cohn-Sherbok
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014

While the Jews strove for statehood and national identity as a result of their claim to their ancient homeland, the Palestinians were denied both, leading to their marginalisation and the ongoing conflict in the Middle East. This book seeks to uncover and explore the central issues of this crisis...
by Dan Cohn-Sherbok
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018

A Dictionary of Jews and Jewish Life is a handy guide for anyone seeking knowledge about the Jewish faith and the Jewish people. Containing thousands of entries, it describes a vast number of features of the Jewish religion as well as Jewish figures from the past to the present. From angels to the...
by Dan Cohn-Sherbok
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011

This dictionary makes centuries of kabbalistic work accessible. Its topics range from the mysteries of the Godhead to the order of the universe, its different worlds and inhabitants. It covers early Merkavah mysticism, the golden era of medieval Spain, the flowering in Safed, the Hasidic movement...
by Nicholas Orme
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014

Medieval Exeter was a religious city containing nearly seventy churches, chapels, monasteries, and almshouses, as well as private oratories, holy wells, and standing crosses. This book explains why this huge number of buildings came into being from about the eleventh century onwards. It shows what...

Almodis

The Peaceweaver

by Tracey Warr
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2011

"Some say Almodis was a serpent, a scandal, a whore. They say wrong." After generations of fighting amongst the ruling families of eleventh-century Occitania, the marriage of Almodis de la Marche to Hugh of Lusignan is intended to bring peace and harmony. But at a time when a noblewoman's...
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