Adventure
Son of Mercia (The Eagle of Mercia Chronicles)
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AD 826, and in the kingdom of Mercia, twelve-year-old orphan Icel labours to learn the arts of healing. As he cuts herbs under the ...Read Review
Tomboy: A Jane Benjamin Novel
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AdventureMystery/CrimeNautical
Scrappy Jane Benjamin aims to make a name for herself as a journalist; but in 1939, in a field dominated by men, that’s ...Read Review
Empire of Iron (Vesta Shadows Trilogy Series, Book 3)
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Rome, during the reign of Caesar Augustus, the Temple of Vesta: the Vestalis Maxima (head of the Vestal Virgins), Pomponia, seems to have ...Read Review
The Capsarius: Volume 1 (Legion XXII)
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Titus Cervianus is a Capsarius: a combat medic in the 22nd Legion. He is also seen as unlucky by his comrades in the 22...Read Review
Lion
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In his notes at the end of the book Iggulden writes, ‘The lack of information for key years between the Persian Wars and ...Read Review
Empire of Iron (Vesta Shadows Trilogy Series, Book 3)
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This novel covers key events of the early Roman Empire, following Octavian’s early years of becoming Augustus Caesar and ending in his ...Read Review
Valiant Ladies
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“Women aren’t reckless,” I groaned as I read the opening fight scene in Valiant Ladies. My love of historical fiction taught me ...Read Review
The Saxon Wolf (Fire Born 2)
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In AD 773, Bjarki Bloodhand, a legendary berserker, is now Fire Born and inhabited by a fierce spirit while he’s fighting. Bjarki fears ...Read Review
The Bear of Byzantium (Wolves of Odin 2)
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1041. Harðráði (Harald ‘Hardrada’ Sigurdsson), his second-in-command Valgarðr and the Varangian Guard, the Byzantine emperor’s personal guard, defeat the Bulgars ...Read Review
Warriors in the Snow (Arrows of Albion 6)
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The bitter winter of 1356 finds Martin Kemp captain of a company of mounted archers in Edward III’s brief and ill-fated Scottish expedition ...Read Review