Mirna Aldhouse-Green: Sacred Britannia [2018] hardback Condition:New from his breakout role as

from his breakout role as Die Hard's villainous Hans Gruber to his heart-wrenching run as Professor Severus Snape

as October fights to find the space to be wild in the whirling chaos of the world beyond the woods

The book draws on a mass of archival material and first-hand testimony only available since the end of the Soviet Union

themes and individuals

Mirna Aldhouse-Green: Sacred Britannia [2018] hardback Condition:New from his breakout role asTwo thousand years ago, the Romans sought to absorb into their empire what they regarded as a remote, almost mythical island on the very edge of the known world Britain. The expeditions of Julius Caesar and the invasion of ad 43 brought fundamental and lasting changes to the island. Not least among these was a pantheon of new Classical deities and religious systems, along with a clutch of exotic eastern cults including Christianity. But what of