3rd Century
Wolves of the North
The fifth entry in distinguished classicist and military historian Harry Sidebottom’s Warrior of Rome series sees the hero Ballista on…
Children of Apollo
Children of Apollo is the first book in a series featuring a grizzled but hopeful veteran of the third century…
Rav Hisda’s Daughter
Rav Hisda’s Daughter provides a wealth of historical detail about Jewish life in Babylon and Israel in the 3rd century…
The Siege
270 AD. Queen Zenobia of Palmyra has turned on her erstwhile master, Rome. She has sent her armies across Arabia,…
Spirit’s Princess
Spirit’s Princess is set in 3rd-century Japan, before the clans are unified. At the start of the story, Himiko, the…
The Caspian Gates
In 262 AD, the mighty city of Ephesus lies in ruins after a devastating earthquake, and mob rule has taken…
Warrior of Rome: Lion of the Sun
In the eastern empire of Rome the frail Valerian has been betrayed and captured by the Persian Sassanid King of…
King of Kings
‘Sidebottom’s prose blazes with searing scholarship,’ proclaims The Times. As an academic who tries to write historical fiction I am…
King of Kings
Harry Sidebottom continues his Warrior of Rome series where part one – Fire in the East – ended. Marcus Clodius…
Warrior of Rome, Part One: Fire in the East
Editors' choice
Fire in the East is part one of Dr Harry Sidebottom’s Warrior of Rome series and his first novel.…
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