Ancient Rome
SPQR Xlll: The Year of Confusion
The year of confusion in the subtitle refers to the year that Caesar introduced his new calendar, and the dictator…
The Ides of March
The Ides of March concentrates on the eight days leading up to and including Julius Caesar’s assassination. While Caesar is…
The Silver Eagle
Editors' choice
The Silver Eagle, the second in a trilogy, picks up from where the earlier book, The Forgotten Legion, left off.…
Cleopatra’s Daughter
In 30 BC, after the defeat and suicide of Antony and Cleopatra, their twin children, Alexander Helios and Cleopatra Selene,…
Claudius
Editors' choice
Emperor Claudius needs to secure his tenuous position in Rome and sets his sights on victory in Britain as a…
The Gladiator
The Gladiator is Simon Scarrow’s ninth book in his Roman series featuring Macro and Cato. This time the intrepid duo…
Empire: Wounds of Honour
Marcus Valerius is a young Roman aristocrat whose family is judicially murdered on a trumped-up treason charge. Keeping just ahead…
King of Kings
Harry Sidebottom continues his Warrior of Rome series where part one – Fire in the East – ended. Marcus Clodius…
Gladiatrix
In the first century AD, a 19-year-old Spartan, Lysandra, is enslaved after being the sole survivor of a shipwreck. In…
Lavinia
The setting and characters of this novel all stem from Virgil’s poem the Aeneid. In the poem, the character of…
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