1st Century
Vespasian III: False God of Rome
Vespasian III is the latest instalment of Robert Fabbri’s saga of Vespasian’s rise from obscurity to the purple. The story…
Unholy Night
Many historical fiction authors take on the Big Stories, but Grahame-Smith has taken on one of the biggest of all:…
The Liars’ Gospel
The life of Yehoshuah (Jesus) is related from the perspective of four people who appear in the gospels, but each…
Holy Smoke
Ramsay’s mystery series set in Jerusalem in the 1st century CE combines skilled plotting with a lighthearted irreverence and sense…
Iscariot
The name Judas has become synonymous with “traitor” as a result of one of the most heinous acts of betrayal…
A Mixture of Madness
Editors' choice
“I am ancient now far beyond my fair share of years,” Alexandros, the slave Alexander, tells us at one point…
The Owl of the Durotriges
Britain’s tribal leaders hold to an uneasy truce imposed upon them by the Druids. It won’t take much for this…
Shieldmaiden
Cumbria, 934, and the English fight Vikings for political supremacy in the North, whilst the traditional Viking way of life…
World’s End
Editors' choice
This story starts in 43 AD in the earliest period of the Roman occupation of what will later become England.…
Marching with Caesar: Civil War
Fans of R. W. Peake’s densely-packed, gripping first novel Marching with Caesar: Conquest of Gaul will be overjoyed to find…
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