1st Century
Master and God
More cloak-and-dagger than sword-and-sandals, Master and God follows Emperor Domitian’s Rome (AD 80-96) through the eyes of ‘a reluctant hero’,…
The Corpus Conundrum: A Third Case from the Notebooks of Pliny the Younger
As the title suggests, this is the third book of a series featuring Pliny the Younger. Using Pliny’s first person…
Spartacus: The Gladiator
Editors' choice
Thanks to Hollywood, Spartacus is one of the most familiar figures of Roman history, notorious and glorified for his slave…
The Bow of Heaven: Book 1: The Other Alexander
Editors' choice
Levkoff’s beautifully written and thrillingly good Roman historical novel opens with a crotchety 85-year-old man looking back on his eventful…
The Twelfth Prophecy
Pregnant out of wedlock to her aged fifth husband, Samaritan Abigail is cast out and threatened with stoning. Years pass,…
Martha
During the reign of the Roman emperor Tiberius, a Jewish family lives a simple life near Jerusalem. The youngest, Mary,…
Cleopatra Confesses
Born in the 1st century B.C., Cleopatra was the favorite of her father, the pharaoh of Egypt, who bypassed his…
Red-robed Priestess
This fourth of The Maeve Chronicles returns our heroine – the Celtic Maeve raised on a lone island by witches,…
Boudica’s Last Stand: Britain’s Revolt Against Rome AD 60-61
It is 60 A.D. Boudica, Queen of the Iceni and widow of Prasatagus, has formed a confederacy of tribes in…
The Legion
This is the latest account in the doings of Prefect Cato and Centurion Macro, soldiers in the Roman army in…
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