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After his exile from Russia, Leon Trotsky lived in Turkey, France and Norway before arriving in Mexico in 1937. In the Latin American country that was to be his last home, Trotsky networked with intellectuals and activists, fought tirelessly against Stalinism, and even had an affair with the artist Frida Kahlo before his fatal rendezvous with an ice axe in the summer of 1940.

The first prisoner of the Tower of London, and the first to escape from the Tower, Flambard was one of the most powerful people in England, during the reign of William Rufus. Simon Webb’s biography explores how Flambard may have been in charge of the compilation of the Domesday Book, and how he went on to be one of the builders of Durham Cathedral.

Remembered today as a designer and author, William Morris was also a committed Socialist, who devoted a crucial portion of his busy, productive life to the Left. Simon Webb’s biography focuses on the political aspects of the life of one of Victorian England’s most intriguing figures.

When a flood leaves hundreds dead in St Petersburg, Yevgeny, a humble clerk, begins to see terrifying visions of a giant horseman mounted on a bronze steed. Simon Webb’s version of Pushkin’s epic poem is part of an edition that offers The Bronze Horseman, with its depiction of tyranny, madness and environmental disaster, as a text for the twenty-first century.

Over tea one afternoon, Uncle Bob asks Timothy what his favourite animal is. When Timmy says he likes tortoises best, his uncle explains that there are ten types of tortoise. A book in rhyming verse for kids and tortoise-lovers.

All sorts of drama unfolds among the chickens belonging to a poor widow. Can Chanticleer the proud cockerel outwit his cunning visitor, Russell the fox?

The Nun’s Priest’s Tale is one of the most amusing of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. Simon Webb’s new verse translation of the tale, its prologue and epilogue is printed with an informative introduction and explanatory notes.