 | Annus Horribilis: Latin for Everyday Life by Mark Walker
Buy new: £9.99 Chock full of examples of Latin not generally found in textbooks
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 | Selections from Peter Martyr (Repertorium Columbianum, Vol. 5) by Peter Martyr of Angleria
Buy new: £49.49 / Used from: £85.77 Astonishingly readable account of Columbus' voyages, with excellent notes and Eng translation by Geoffrey Eatough
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 | A Primer of Mediaeval Latin: An Anthology of Prose and Poetry by Charles H. Beeson
Buy new: £8.65 / Used from: £8.41 Delightful and highly readable selections of prose and poetry
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 | Ecclesiastical History of the English People by The Venerable St.Bede
Buy new: £11.70 / Used from: £21.35 Selections from Bede with helpful notes for translating
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 | Erasmus and His Times by Desiderius Erasmus
Buy new: £15.99 / Used from: £15.19 One of the best Latin letter-writers: an enjoyable short selection of excerpts with notes
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| Samuel Johnson: The Latin Poems by Niall Rudd
Buy new: £20.17 / Used from: £18.18 Handsome edition of Johnson's Latin poems, with translations and commentary
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 | Carmina Burana by Carl Orff
Buy new: £17.95 / Used from: £28.57 The Carmina Burana poems as selected by Orff, with texts, notes and translations (warning: some of the translations are a little eccentric!)
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| Syphilis (ARCA (Classical & Medieval Texts, Papers & Monographs)) by Girolamo Fracastoro
Eatough's edition and translation of Fracastoro's epic poem on, ahem, Syphillis. Astonishing (and he comes up with a germ theory of disease to boot!)
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 | Reading Latin Poetry Aloud: A Practical Guide to Two Thousand Years of Verse by Clive Brooks
Buy new: £19.99 / Used from: £20.76 Stunningly good -- the most useful book on Latin poetry you'll ever own
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 | Writing Latin by Richard Ashdowne
Buy new: £10.42 / Used from: £25.64 Excellent modern manual: learning how to write Latin is simply the best way to become proficient in the language
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 | Reading Medieval Latin by Keith Sidwell
Buy new: £17.72 / Used from: £17.72 Good alternative to Beeson's compendium with very detailed notes to help translation
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 | Harrius Potter et Philosophi Lapis (Latin language edition) by J.K. Rowling
Buy new: £8.44 / Used from: £5.98 |
 | Carpe Diem by Harry Mount
Buy new: £5.71 / Used from: £6.77 |
 | Amo, Amas, Amat... and All That: How to Become a Latin Lover by Harry Mount
Buy new: £8.44 / Used from: £1.28 |
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