Epic
Savage City
In this alternative history, Rome has never fallen and is still a major player on the world stage in the…
The End of Sparta
In 371 B.C.E., the Theban general Epaminondas and his army of farmers defeated the Spartans against staggering odds at the…
Birth of the Kingdom
Editors' choice
It is the year 1192 when the legendary crusader, Sir Arn Magnusson, returns from Outremer with a string of Arabian…
The King’s Man
With The King’s Man, Pauline Gedge concludes her trilogy begun in The Twice Born and Seer of Egypt about enigmatic…
The Raven Queen
Editors' choice
Other writers have tackled Ireland’s Iron Age legends and their compelling magic, a magic thoroughly mixed with the earthy business…
The Land of Painted Caves
Having read the previous five books of this series, I looked forward to this sixth volume, expected to be the…
The Rage of Achilles
From its opening pages in which a young servant girl (who may or may not be Achilles’s mother) in the…
Empire
In Empire, the sequel to his New York Times bestseller Roma, Steven Saylor returns to the multi-generational saga, this time…
Russian Winter
Nina Revskaya was one of the Bolshoi Ballet’s great dancers, a prima ballerina beyond compare during her heyday. She was…
The Half-Slave
This novel, set in 476 AD, depicts the fighting for control between the warring Germanic Saxons and Franks as they…
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